Poemes, 1987-1996: Una antologia (Varoic)
Edicions Documenta Balear, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear. Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. Dual language English/Spanish. More
Signed Books
Cuttings from the Tangle
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
Clay in the Potter's Hand
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
The Rain in Portugal
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
Streets in Their Own Ink: Poems
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
Coney Island of the Mind
New Directions, 1958. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Moderate shelf wear. Significant rubbing on the spine and on the front cover adjacent to the spine. Pages toned. Nice bold author's signature with no dedication on the half title page. Binding still tight. No underlining or marginalia. More
In Search of Small Gods
Copper Canyon Press, May 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Jim Harrison has probed the breadth of human appetites for food and drink, for art, for sex, for violence and, most significantly, for the great twin engines of love and death. Perhaps no American writer better appreciates those myriad drives; since the..... More
Flight Among the Tombs: Poems
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
The Transparent Man
Knopf, February 1992. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. First paperback edition signed by Hecht on title page. Bright, clean, copy that is unfortunately marred by textblock curled from mishandling or badly stored. From the side the book is bowed into snake-like curve. Signed by Hecht on have title page.[75 pages]..... More
Home Body
Andrews McMeel Publishing, December 2021. Hardcover. A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound..... More
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry)
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
Derelict Tributaries
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
To Dock at Stars
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
Poisoned apples: Poems
Pivot Press, January 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the poet, Corner crease on the front cover. More
Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
Harper Perennial, March 2012. Trade Paperback. David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and..... More
Dear Outsiders: poems (Akron Series in Poetry)
University of Akron Press, March 2023. Paper Back. Set in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents' deaths while trying to simultaneously forget and remember them. Dear Outsiders explores how we are part of and stranger to our environments and..... More
Transformations
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
Disorders of the Real
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
The smell of matches
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
EchoLocations
Story Line Press, November 2000. Paper Back. Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author. More
Thrall: Poems
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. The stunning follow-up volume to Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Guard, by the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States. Natasha Trethewey's poems are at once deeply personal and historical--exploring her own interracial and complicated roots--and utterly American, connecting them to ours..... More
Tossing and Turning
Knopf, May 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing; Signed by author at title page; Tight binding; Clean sturdy purple paper covered boards w/ navy cloth spine; Immaculate gilt letting at front and spine; Approx. 2 inch faint crease present at rear board outer edge; Very mild edge wear..... More
Selected Poems (FIRST EDITION SIGNED)
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
New and Collected Poems
Harcourt, April 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. In dustjacket with mild wear. Flap is not clipped. Dark blue cloth covered spine with silver lettering along spine. Dark grey paper covered boards wth mild edgewear. Gutter between pages 182 & 183 has slight bow where fat folded clippeds were stored, unforunately..... More
