Ahsahta Press, March 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Carrie Olivia Adams delves into a space defined by air and sky, each movement another scene of a movie re-filmed many times over. INTERVENING ABSENCE, a series of sequences that question silence and interaction (and which both stand alone and themselves..... More
Black Sparrow Press, December 2020. Hardcover. For nearly three decades, Richard Buckner has been traveling the byways of America, often alone and with little more than his guitars and notebooks. Now he's sharing what he saw, felt, and found. Long admired for his impressionistic and elliptical lyrics, Buckner has more..... More
Facets Of Life Poetry Collection, December 2001. Paper Back. Clean, solid, without markings or wear. Personal inscription by Watson: 'To DeJu. Keep smiling my friend and be Blessed! Enjoy! C.A.W. 7/8/08'. More
Black Sparrow Press, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with..... More
Random House, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In a city like that one might sail through life led by a runaway hat. The young scattered in whatever directions their wild hair pointed and, gusting into one another, they fell in love. --from "Windy City" In his second book..... More
Vintage, July 1984. First Thus. Paper Back. Signed by Stern on title page. More
William Morrow, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and..... More
Brevity Press, 1976. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo (Six & 3/4-inch x Eight & 1/4-inch) First edition in original wraps. Mild wear to edges. Creased front cover lower, right corner. In clear vinyl jacket. Slight lean to spine. (108 pages). Signed & inscribed verso of front cover: 'Aug. 17, 1977..... 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
Wesleyan, March 2001. Hardcover. Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets. Pleasure Dome gathers the poems..... More
Anhinga Press, December 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. "These beautiful poems are steeped in the dark tannin of loss. Redwater rivers, blackwater rivers they carry on, tributaries distributing memories through the sandy landscape of home. The poems are formally measured, with an elegiac economy, quiet Eliotic echoes, the ever-presence..... More
University Press of Washington D.C., July 1976. Cloth. Third printing. Octavo. In DJ with rubbing and darkening to verso of folds, spine & margins. Front flap is not clipped. Cherry red cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Mild tanning to end pages. Inked inscription by Ransom top of..... More
Copper Canyon Press, November 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. "Marianne Boruch's work has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention."--The Washington Post "[H]er patience, her willingness to wait for the film of familiarity to slip, allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw."--Poetry..... More
Henry Holt, New York. First Thus. Cloth. Signed (on limitation page) & numbered: 102/250; In clear vinyl sleeve chipped at top of the spine & tanned/discolored. White cloth with gold lettering & blue decor. Foxing to cloth. In blue stiff paper covered cardstock slipcase. White title plate with blue lettering..... More
Mariner Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of psychological pain have touched thousands of readers. Third printing. Normal spine wear, sunning and toning to the softcover edition. Previous owner's name/date inked onto the top of..... More
Station Hill Press, Inc., January 1988. Paper Back. This collection of writing represents, in Sondheim's words, "a basic text for postmodern poets." Sondheim states, "My approach would describe something like the impossible search for the grounds of the Self in sexuality and ideology; the hysteria of the loss of speech;..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. First/first U.S. Octavo in jacket with mild edgewear. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards wih gold lettering on spine edge & blind stamped 'Lucky Life' front board. These boards' corners slightly bruised. Sound binding. Complete number string. Signed by Stern on..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Very moderate wear to book and jacket. Warm, personal inscription on front free endpaper inscribed by John Stone. More
