Modern Library, January 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Bookplate adhered at one corner to front free (Kent) endpaper. Additionally, previous owner's name taped to same endpaper. Top edge of spine sunned. Top leading corner also has color loss. Jacket quite torn, chipped and tape repaire; still..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Unbelievable Alligator Press, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Poetry. FLOWERS OF BAD is David Cameron's false translation of Charles Baudelaire's 19th century masterpiece, Les Fleurs du Mal. Written over the course of 11 years, it includes translations of all of the poems in Baudelaire's masterpiece, barring those added to the edition..... More
Red Hen Press, January 2010. Paper Back. **Winner of the American Book Award **Silver Medalist for the California Book Award Suck on the Marrow is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped..... More
North Star Press of St. Cloud, August 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Nightboat Books, December 2010. Paper Back. This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall's innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer's Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary tales..... More
Facets Of Life Poetry Collection, December 2001. Paper Back. Clean, solid, without markings or wear. Personal inscription by Watson: 'To DeJu. Keep smiling my friend and be Blessed! Enjoy! C.A.W. 7/8/08'. More
Burning Deck, January 2006. Paper Back. Poetry. Sharply drawn and lyrical, PERSPECTIVE WOULD HAVE US is the first full-length collection from poet Erica Carpenter. Carpenter is a Rhode Island native and received an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 1998. She is the author of a chapbook, Summoned..... More
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
Bantam, November 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. "What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively."--Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works..... More
Wake Forest University Press, March 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Clean and tight. Just a few turned page corners. Signed and dedicated on the title page. More
J.M. Dent & Sons, July 1993. Trade Paperback. God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic..... More
Duke University Press Books, November 2017. Paper Back. Originally published in 1939, Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the Négritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new authoritative translation, revised introduction, and extensive commentary, making it..... More
Everyman's Library/ Alfred A. Knopf/A Borzoi Book, June 1992. Cloth. Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. "The Canterbury Tales" gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters..... More
Penguin Classics, August 1983. Trade Paperback. Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four..... More
Black Sparrow Press, May 2022. Paper Back. Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist--this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop he made a landmark in San Francisco, and a life beautifully lived with writers and books. In the mid-1950s a group of San Francisco-based writers emerged as a central force in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1979. Trade Paperback. John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been fruitful ones. His translation ofThe Divine Comedy is the definitive American rendering. His How Does a Poem Mean?, now in a new edition with..... More
Henry Holt, January 1940. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'} Octavo. Red cloth with gold lettering front board and along spine.Beige end pages dust stained. Tight binding. Without markings. 62 pages. More
A shuffaloff/Eternal Network Joint, 2012. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Penguin Classics, May 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Harvard University Press, (1972). Hardcover. Claudius Claudianus, Latin poet of great affairs, flourished during the joint reigns (394-5 CE onwards) of the brothers Honorius (Emperor in the West) and Arcadius (in the East). Apparently a native of Greek Alexandria in Egypt, he was, to judge by his name, of Roman..... More
Cape, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in dustjacket. Front flap clipped at bottom. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Slightly worn. Tight binding. [154 pp.]. More
Black Sparrow Press, June 2022. Hardcover. "Fantastically entertaining and deeply engaging...potent distillations of creative rage, social critique, and subversive wit."--Washington Post "Terrifying and fearlessly inventive."--New York Times The first complete collection of Wanda Coleman's original and inventive sonnets. Long regarded as among her finest work, these one hundred poems give..... More
Black Sparrow Press, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with..... More
