Penguin Classics, July 1991. Trade Paperback. A new modern translation of "The Iliad" that is fast-moving, direct, emphasizes the action of the story, and is especially helpful for those first encountering this classic work. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Hurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 1994. Hardcover. This autobiographical sequence of poems records the author's life from early childhood to adulthood, through the rebellions of his youth, the tragedy of his mother's death and the acceptance of his father's disciplinary love. The poems are an emotional remembrance of growing up with..... More
Vintage, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s. The editors, Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, have aimed to..... More
Harvest / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Some scattered ink underlining & marginal notes. Darkened spine. More
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971. Cloth. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Edgeworn dust jacket. Reprint of Martin Secker & Warburg Limited UK edition. More
Wesleyan Univ Press, Conn, January 1962. Hardcover. Fifh printing (1967). Endpapers foxed; jacket darkened, chipped and clipped. More
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More
Prentice Hall Trade / A Spectrum Book, August 1962. Paper Back. More
Orange Alert Press, October 2009. Paper Back. This is a collection of prose poems that when collected tell the tale of a young man and his cross country travels. More
Harvey Dan Abrams, January 1979. Hardcover. Maroon boards without dust jacket. Signed by Gibbs & Ogletree on limitation page. Signed & inscribed (on front free end page) by publisher, Harvey Dan Abrams. Numbered edition: #292. Blind stamp on dedication page. More
White Crane Books, April 2008. Trade Paperback. The Beautiful Tendons is a collection of more than three decades of award-winning poet Jeffrey Beam's lyrical, metaphysical work. Both spiritual and stirring, Beam's poetry was described by the late James Broughton as "sensual ephiphanies, lightning flashes of the dramatic heart of event..... More
Hanging Loose Press, April 2011. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Jen Benka's elegant and superbly crafted poems reinvigorate our notion of the lyric. Welding language from diverse spheres military, political, legal, literary, pop she enlists the reader to help in this renewal process, urging: "trespassers take up your tools." "I'm a huge..... More
Unversity of pittsbugh, January 1977. Trade Paperback. Light foxing. More
White Rabbit, January 1968. Stapled Soft Cover. Much chipped & torn. At last account still holding on by one rusty staple. Scarce. More
Doubleday, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. Darkened spine & margins; chipping & edgewear. Slanted spine. Gold lettering. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. More
Eyewear Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Over the last three years, Atlanta-based artist John Carroll has been on a journey of sharing a piece of blackout poetry with his social media followers every day. HIDDEN MESSAGES OF HOPE is a retrospective collection of his blackout poetry, along..... More
Secker & Warburg, January 1971. Cloth. Minor shelf wear and several (5mm or less) closed tears on the jacket. The jacket is price clipped and there is a personal bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 1976. Trade Paperback. The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 1985. Paper Back. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Noemi Press, December 2016. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Parra. This is a second, expanded edition of the English translation of poems by Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre (Venezuela, 1890-1930), which was originally published in 2012 by University of New Orleans Press. Although Ramos Sucre is a...... More
University of California Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. The Totality for Kids is the second collection of poems by Joshua Clover, whose debut, Madonna anno domini, won the Walt Whitman award from the Academy of American Poets. This volume takes as its subject the troubled sleep of late modernity, from..... More
Shakespeare and Company (Pirated), 1927. Stapled Soft Cover. More
