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

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

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

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

Princeton University Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered..... More

Faber & Faber, 1981. Paper Back. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 3/4'} Previous owner's name written in ink half title page. [144 pages]. More

William Sloane Associates / Apollo Editions, January 1955. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Back cover has damp staining & large scar that takes up about one-third of page. A previous reader has written name in ink on half title page. General wear and creasing. [191 pages]. More

Penguin Classics, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral..... More

Penguin Classics, August 1989. Trade Paperback. 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 in a vivid group..... 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

BOA Editions Ltd., September 2022. Paper Back. What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and..... More