Milkweed Editions, January 2023. Paper Back. Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco, selected by Tyehimba Jess for the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, is an aching tribute to the power and precarity of queer love. In small-town Mississippi, before the aughts, a child "assigned 'woman'" and a boy..... More
University of Arkansas Press, January 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. THIS TITLE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN HARDBACK. A beautiful copy of this very scarce book of poetry, the former Poet Laureate's second. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, April 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In an article for the Nation. James Longenbach heralded Black Zodiac as Charles Wright's "most richly satisfying single book", adding that "he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh". These are..... More
Vintage, April 1991. Trade Paperback. Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning. These poems show Collins..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. In dustjacket. Red cloth. Foxing and discoloration on end pages. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2001. Hardcover. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love. They are not figures in a love poem. Time is their..... More
Random House Inc, 1987. Reprint. Cloth. This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - "Harmonium" - "Ideas of Order" - "The Man With the Blue Guitar" - "Parts of the World" - "Transport Summer" - "The Auroras of Autumn" - "The..... More
The Waywiser Press, January 2004. First Edition. Cloth. Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections-"The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, "and" The Darkness..... More
The Viking Press, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket with navy vlue cloth covered spine with silver lettering and blue paper covered boards. [97 pages]. More
Knopf, November 1996. First Edition. Cloth. The first half of this volume, "The Presumptions of Death, " accompanied by Leonard Baskin's wood engravings, is composed of two parts. In the first, Death speaks in his own person, though in differing moods and attitudes. In the second - in a variation..... More
Alfred Knopf Publishing, March 1991. Reprint. Paper Back. A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, 8th printing. Signed & inscribed on title page..... More
City Lights Publishers, November 2022. Paper Back. 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
BOA Editions Ltd., April 2012. Trade Paperback. This is a powerful first collection by a very promising new writer--successfully announcing what will hopefully be a long-lasting presence in contemporary poetry.--MARY: A Journal for New Writing Selected by Jane Hirshfield from over six hundred manuscripts, Litany for the City is the..... More
Soft Skull, December 2022. Hardcover. "Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother's evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country's oppression through the generational wounds survived and passed on. These poems are a testament to the healing work of Kevin Powell..... More
Oxford Univ Press, January 1986. Hardcover. Small, thin volume. More
ManyPenny Press, January 2007. Paper Back. More
Maypop Books, January 1988. Trade Paperback. Contains quatrains, odes, and rambles through the Mathnawi (including animal fables, jokes, and stories of human oneness and innocence), alongwith Rumi's teachings and images of his spiritual surrender. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 1980. Trade Paperback. More
University of Washington Press, 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. {4&3/4' x 7&3/4'} Heavy edgewear. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [68 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century, an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This introductory Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by..... More
Focus, April 1990. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Harvard University Press, September 1995. Paper Back. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. How does a poet repeatedly make art over a lifetime out..... More
St. Martin's Press, May 1997. Hardcover. Here in Eden Renewed, the renowned poet and biographer of Edward Lear and Alfred Tennyson, Oxford University professor Peter Levi, presents readers with an extraordinary portrait of John Milton (1608-1674). In this compelling and detailed work, Levi traces Milton's life from the young man..... More
