The Kalevala: An Epic Poem after Oral Tradition by Elias Lönnrot (Oxford World's Classics Series)
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Noonday, 1968. Trade Paperback. Cover wear, page toning, and some inked notes in table of contents. More
Farrar Straus Giroux, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. First/first {6 & 1/4' x 9'} In heavily edgeworn jacket with tears & creases. Front flap is not clipped. Off white cloth covered boards with gold lettering within a black rectangle along the spine edge. All four board fore-edge corners bumped &..... More
Vintage Book, 1959. Soft Cover. {4 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/4'} First Vintage mass market paperback edition. Red ink underlining . 3 different previous owner's names inked first inside page (rubber stamped, and handwritten in red and black ink). Foxing/dust stains front and rear cover. Heavy darkening of spine..... 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
Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Mina Loy's technique and subjects - prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide - shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it. Roger Conover has resuced the key texts from the pages of..... More
Viking Books, February 2001. Hardcover. Alison Lurie is known for the sophisticated satire and Pulitzer-winning prose of her novels and stories. In Familiar Spirits, she lovingly evokes two true-life intimates who are now lost to her. In her signature mix of comedy and analysis Lurie recalls Merrill and his longtime..... More
Grove Press, January 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with mild shelf wear, tape 'repairs', large ink stain bottom textblock edge toward spine base. Previous reader's name in ink & previous dealer's stamp on ffep. [200 pages]. More
Dufour Editions, March 1997. Trade Paperback. One of the most individual voices in Irish poetry today Selected Poems contains all of the poems Woods wanted published at this stage, gathered from his previous five collections, from 1970-1994. "It occurs to me that a life given to poetry is the true..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Before Helen Macdonald rose to international acclaim with her beautiful and nearly feral (New York Times) bestselling memoir H Is for Hawk, she wrote a collection of poetry, Shaler's Fish. In robust, lyrical verse, Shaler's Fish roams both the outer and inner..... More
Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition. Paper Back. Mass market paperback. Light dust stains. [350 pages]. More
Macmillan Pub Ltd, October 1990. Paper Back. The aim of the series from which this book is taken is to delineate various critical approaches to specific literary texts. This is a study of the work of the Metaphysical poets through an analysis of style that is both formalist and historical..... More
Thames & Hudson, May 1986. Oversize Softcover. Ireland's greatest poet, William Butler Yeats, was also perhaps the most outstanding poet to have written in English since Wordsworth. Many of his early poems - wistful, mysterious and suffused with Pre-Raphaelite imagery - are of haunting beauty. But in the early 1900s..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 1970. Trade Paperback. The seventeenth-century poets are almost without exception men of the world: their poetry is full of sensuous, scientific, and mundane images. But they are also religious men, fully aware of man's paradoxical situation between Heaven and earth. What these poets accomplish..... More
Routledge, March 1994. Paper Back. The first edition, by the late Edward Malins, of this informative guide to the life and works of one of the most important and difficult poets of the 20th century, has now been extensively revised by John Purkis. It begins by providing biographical details on..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced..... More
Vintage Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Houghton Mifflin & Co./ Riverside, January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo with shelfwear, soiling, creased corner. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [261 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, January 1979. First Thus. Paper Back. Trad paperback with mild dust stains. Previous reader's name written in ink on half title page. [518 pages plus 34 pages of supplementary material.]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1996. Paper Back. "In the midst of our worst century so far we have produced a great poet." Those words by Elizabeth Bishop, a friend of Robert Lowell and a great poet in her own right, ring ever truer almost two decades after Lowell's..... More
Franklin Library, January 1981. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon marker. More
R.S. Means Company, 1997-06-01. Trade Paperback. More
Privately printed, January 1921. Hardcover. Number 51 of an edition limited to 990 copies. Plain blue boards in beige cloth back with gilt-titled maroon leather title label. Label is worn; moderately edgeworn, light foxing, and previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper, stamped on limitation page. More
Perivale Press, October 1976. Paper Back. Heavily dust stains, mostly marginal. Foxing & dust stains to textblock edges. Rear cover heavy damp staining fore-edge. In Latin & English. [59 pages]. More
Yale University Press, May 1992. Paper Back. Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus, 85-55 BC), Roman poet, author of witty and erotic love poems. A historical, biographical, and literary study. Hermes series on classical authors. Previous owner's name. More
University of Minnesota Press, January 1970. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Clean, sound, without markings. [48 pages]. More
Penguin Books, September 2023. Trade Paperback. A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of survival outside neuronormative..... More
Hutchinson, January 1966. Trade Paperback. More
Harper, June 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction, and criticism that has earned him a permanent place in the pantheon of American letters. A Library of Congress Poet Laureate and National Book Award winner, he had a...... More
Unbound Edition Press, October 2021. Hardcover. Poetry. WE PREFER THE DAMNED, the 11th book from Carlo Matos, features poems exploring bisexual relationships, erasure, and denial. Matos, equally celebrated for his fiction, poetry, and prose-poetry, pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in WE PREFER THE DAMNED..... More
Harper & Row, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Gold lettering on cloth spine. Part of the front flap is glued to front pastedown. Previous owner's name inked fep. Also on same end page a rubber stamp letting us know this was 'no. 7,80 in the library..... More
Cambridge University Press, August 1967. Paper Back. Keats is one of the most widely read and studied of the English poets, but there are few books about him for the student. Not surprisingly, most books give much space to the romantic life. Mr Mayhead resists the temptation: he writes only..... More
Lemma Publishing Corp. 1972. Hardcover. More
David Mckay Company,Inc, January 1970. Paper Back. Covers moderately worn from handling; Spine creased and bumped from use; Text free of markings; A solid reading copy. More
Michigan State University Press, June 1985. Trade Paperback. Second Printing; spine is moderately sun faded but still legible; some light corner bumping, shelf wear and rubbing; name written in ink on front free end page. More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades. With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion..... More
Columbia Univ Pr, January 1990. Trade Paperback. More
C&r Press, April 2022. Paper Back. This is a story of a successful businessman, Bruce McEver, the founder of Berkshire Capital and a global pioneer of investment banking, who is devastated by the sudden and unexpected death of his wife of thirty years, a beautiful and talented opera singer who..... More
American Poetry Review, September 2009. Paper Back. Winner of the prestigious American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, Laura McKee's Uttermost Paradise Place achieves a shimmering transparency and surreal potency. While many of the poems are perceived via a persona, it is ultimately the personae of perception that proscribe the pure..... More
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, February 2000. Trade Paperback. Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry - edited by Molly McQuade - contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own..... More
Nightboat Books, April 2024. Paper Back. A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss. In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of..... More
Penguin USA, February 1989. Trade Paperback. Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table..... More
New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2005. Trade Paperback. More
Fordham University Press, April 2024. Paper Back. Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod's American voyage steers its course across the curvature of..... More
University of Michigan Press, December 1990. Paper Back. Poems Are Hard to Read gathers together a half-century of prose pieces written by William Meredith. The work includes essays on poetry and poets, reviews, occasional addresses, memoirs, and a Paris Review interview given shortly before his retirement. In Poems Are Hard..... More
North Point Press, November 1986. First Thus. Paper Back. {6' x 9'} First paperback with previous reader reader's name written on first inside page. [202 pages]. More
Copper Canyon Press, August 2017. Trade Paperback. "The Essential W.S. Merwin beautifully demonstrates why Merwin has been one of America's most decorated and important poets for more than 60 years."--The Washington Post "Merwin is one of the great poets of our age."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"Merwin has become instantly recognizable..... More
Copper Canyon Press, September 2007. Paper Back. Named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry Named by O as one of the "20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own" "The poems in Migration speak a...... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1997. Paper Back. Robert Frost, one of the greatest American poets, is certainly the most widely read and most loved. After Frost's death in 1963, his authorized biographer wrote a three-volume work which deeply distorted the personality of the poet. Jeffrey Meyers has returned to the sources..... More
Cleveland State U Poetry Center, May 2003. Paper Back. More
Random House, June 1963. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with chips and tears and sun lightened spine. Darkening of margins. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards worn to edges mostly along top. One quarter inch tear to cloth at top of spine. [317 pages]. More
Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1991. Cloth. Discusses the poems and translations of a leading contemporary poet. In jacket with edgewear and mild chipping with small tears. Light staining and mild damp staining. Flap not clipped. Dark brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tan end pages with..... More
State House Press, July 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. A seventy-year collection of poetry from the pen of one of America's greatest storytellers. His final book, published in celebration of his 90th birthday, contains approximately one hundred of Michener's charming sonnets. Seventy-years worth of poetry, published 'in celebration of James A...... More
Vintage, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's psychiatrist, this bestselling biography is a brilliant and compassionate portrait of..... More
Vintage, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Nominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's psychiatrist, this bestselling biography is a brilliant and compassionate portrait of..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. More
Library of America, January 2003. Hardcover. Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2024. Paper Back. "An astounding debut." --Adrienne Raphel, The New York Times Book Review A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She..... More
Fawcett Publications, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild wear. Two previous dealer's stamps and one previous owner's name written in ink. [273 and one page of Fawcett Premier titles]. More
Signet Book, February 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Here in one volume are the complete texts of two of the greatest epic poems in English literature. Each a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice, "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism..... More
Viking, 1968. Paper Back. Covers creased. More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 1992. Trade Paperback. This is the second edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost. It represents an extensive revision of the first edition. The text of the poem remains that of Milton's 1674 edition, retaining the original punctuation but with modernized..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 2005. Trade Paperback. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. Sources and Backgrounds collects relevant passages..... More
Gordian Press, Inc. / Harcourt, Brace & World, June 1968. Hardcover. Octavo in grey cloth covered boards with black lettering along leaning spine. Jacket is missing. Previous owner's name written in ballpoint on ffep. [353 pages]. More
Harper Perennial, May 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia University Press, October 1984. Hardcover. Analyzes the themes and techniques used in Merrill's most important poems, and suggests the influences which shaped his work. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy pictoral boards w/ mild staining at bottom front edge; Text free of markings; Previous owner initials present at front free end-page;..... More
Tupelo Press, May 2017. Trade Paperback. Rajiv Mohabir uses his queer and mixed-caste identities as grace notes to charm alienation into silence. Mohabir's inheritance of myths, folk tales, and multilingual translations make a palimpsest of histories that bleed into one another. A descendant of indentureship survivors, the poet-narrator creates an..... More
Tupelo Press, January 2017. Paper Back. In this award-winning debut collection, the smallest things of the world bear enormous emotive weight. For Jenny Molberg, the invisible and barely visible are forms of memory, articulations of our place in the cosmos. Parsing the intersections between science and personal history, and contemplating..... More
Oxford University Press, U.S.A., October 1993. Trade Paperback. A scholarly edition of works by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. Tiny ink stamp on the bottom of the print block. Front cover lightly curled. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1994. Paper Back. Virtually incomparable. . . . [Arrowsmith] has quite literally distilled this poetry's essence in order to recompose it with all of its colors, scents, and exquisitely understated potency intact. Rebecca West. More
Dream Horse Press, May 2010. Paper Back. The poems of Ghost Lights are ambitious and multi-textured narratives and lyrics, are steeped in the lore of cinema and pop culture, and above all seem to dwell in those liminal places where adolescent longing gives way to a hard-bitten and grown-up spirit..... More
Penguin USA, October 1994. Trade Paperback. "Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight." -The New York Times Book Review A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings together all the works that Pulitzer Prize-winning Marianne Moore wished to preserve, covering more than..... More
Penguin Classics, 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Darkened at margins & edges. [305 pages]. More
Penguin Books, April 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2017. Hardcover. A landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poets The landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good..... More
Viking Penguin, November 2003. Hardcover. More than thirty years after her death, Marianne Moore continues to be one of America's most beloved poets. However, her "Collected Poems" (1951) omits twenty years of later beauties. And her inaccurately titled "Complete Poems" (1967) is likewise incomplete, leaving out nearly half of her..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Wineston, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. In mildly worn dustjacket. Dark brown cloth covered spine with gold letters. Tan paper covered boards with gold lettering across top near edge of front panel. Matching tan end papers. Tight binding. Clean & sound. [133 pages]. More
Penguin Books, January 1993. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Avon Books, October 1980. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
University of Chicago Press, April 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. Andrew Motion's dramatic narration of Keats's life is the first in a generation to take a fresh look at this great English Romantic poet. Unlike previous biographers, Motion pays close attention to the social and political worlds Keats inhabited. Making..... More
Knopf, April 2024. Hardcover. A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive..... More
Dover Publications, Inc., 1966. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday Books, June 1995. Hardcover. "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series of fascinating..... More
University of North Carolina Press, January 1965. First Edition. Cloth. In mildly toned DJ with some edgewear. Front flap is not clipped. Baby blue cloth with gold lettering. Mild foxing. Tight binding. (60 pp.). More
Penguin Critical Anthologies, 1970, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. Cover wear and soiling; previous owner's name and bookstore stamp on front free endpaper; still, a good reading copy. More
Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, January 1962. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkening at margins. Water stains front cover. Dust stains & soiling along spine. Nice square copy otherwise with unmarked text. [322 pages.] 2nd Noonday press printing. Previously published under various titles. First edition published as Studies in..... More
Independently published, May 2019. Trade Paperback. Nora is an anxious firecracker. Fresh out of high school, she's a kid and an adult. She's confident but vulnerable. She's selectively spunky yet frequently scared. In the summer before college, Nora is launched into an social interaction exposure therapy program by her roommate..... More
Wadsworth Publishing, January 1969. Trade Paperback. Lightly rubbed corners. Previous owners name on the half title page. More
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. This bilingual volume is the definitive collection of the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize winner and one of the most profoundly influential poets of the twentieth century. His love poems are earthy and transcendent, and his political poems are the work..... More
David Books/ San Francisco Poster Collective, 1983. First Thus. Stapled Pamphlet. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/4'} Stapled pamphlet slightly darkened at margins. Cardstock cover with two staples along fold. In Spanish & English. {35 pages]. More
Wesleyan University Press, September 2004. Hardcover. This new book by award-winning author Amy Newman explores as its formal structure the 72 definitions for the word "fall." These lovely, accessible poems span a narrative drama--from the creation of the world and the subsequent exile of its first inhabitants, through the downward..... More
Pivot Press, January 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the poet, Corner crease on the front cover. More
Scribner, January 2024. Paper Back. *One of LitHub's Poetry Books to Read in 2024* *One of The Millions's Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024* National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how..... More
The Noonday Press, January 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. 9th printing. Previous owner's name and two previous dealer's stamps inked inside first page. A few scattered markings & notes through interior text, here and there. Toning & dust stains. [385 pp.]. More
University of Michigan Press, May 1985. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Fore Publications Limited, January 1950. Stapled Soft Cover. 16mo. Tanning/discoloration. Non-authorial inscription. More
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, January 1960. Trade Paperback. Minor cover wear, still, a good, solid copy. More
Penguin Books, April 2024. Paper Back. A memoir in verse from one of America's legendary poets In a New York Times review of Alice Notley's 2007 collection In the Pines, Joel Brouwer wrote that "the radical freshness of Notley's poems stems not from what they talk about, but how they..... More
Faux Pr, February 2003. Paper Back. One corner bumped; crease at bottom corner of front cover. More