The Life of Ezra Pound
Pelican / Penguin Books, January 1974. Paper Back. 12mo. Shelfworn. Previous owner's name, a date and location written in ink upper right corner of first inside page. [610 pages]. More
Pelican / Penguin Books, January 1974. Paper Back. 12mo. Shelfworn. Previous owner's name, a date and location written in ink upper right corner of first inside page. [610 pages]. More
Penguin Books, June 2023. Paper Back. The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the..... More
Andrews McMeel Publishing, March 2023. Paper Back. Let this book be a celebration of queerness, Blackness, and love. Let these words be a modern church, these poems a holy space. Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring..... More
Penguin Classics, 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Darkened at margins & edges. [305 pages]. More
University of California Press, July 2015. Hardcover. Philip Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and key figure in the literary and artistic scene that unfolded in San Francisco in the 1950s and '60s. When the Beat writers came West, Whalen became a revered, much-loved member of the group. Erudite..... More
City Lights Publishers, November 2022. Trade Paperback. From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander's status as one of the most unique and innovative..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, October 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Red boards with a burgundy cloth spine, both lettered in gold. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. Jacket has light soiling, light shelf wear and a one inch closed tear. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Simon and Schuster, January 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Book has previous owners name on the front free endpaper, else very good. More
Lost Horse Press, April 2022. Trade Paperback. Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, nonstop propaganda flows from TV, and neighbors begin to hate their neighbors. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2023. Hardcover. "[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher's] interpretations equal Wheatley's own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement." --Tiya Miles, The Atlantic "Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued .... More
Arcade Publishing, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy. Wright discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through..... More
Scribner, May 2023. Hardcover. A powerful collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia's Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class and its failures for those rendered invisible by it. As a former student of economics, Airea D. Matthews was fascinated and disturbed..... More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Presents the story of Odysseus' return from the Trojan War to his homeland in a modern English translation. More
Copper Canyon Press, April 2023. Paper Back. Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy. Existentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau's dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1978. Trade Paperback. One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience--which juxtapose poems such as "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," and..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows..... More
Signet Classics, October 1964. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the..... More
Penguin Classics, February 1983. Trade Paperback. This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. In the Amores, Ovid addresses himself in a series of elegies to Corinna, his beautiful, elusive mistress. The..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1996. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Previous owner price sticker present at rear cover; An excellent copy. More
Oxford University Press, September 1998. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Previous owner name present at front free end-page; An excellent copy. More
Penguin Books, April 2023. Paper Back. "[Rogers'] poems bring an openness of spirit and an almost scientific curiosity to the world at her feet, cataloging unexpected connections everywhere she looks." --New York Times Book Review A new collection from a poet whose "celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world. It tells of..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2021. Paper Back. Winner, 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual PoetryWinner, 2022 Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry)Finalist, 2023 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives..... More
Mariner Books, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 is the definitive, complete collection of poetry by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska. Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska..... More