Alexander Pope (The Penguin Poets)
Penguin Books, January 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. More
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Bullets into Bells
Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean..... More
Staff Pick
Bullets into Bells is an important collection of voices. It pairs poetry from poets like Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Yosef Komunyakaa, and plenty more with your everyday citizens' response to gun violence. It will move you.
Christmas Poems
New Directions, November 2008. Trade Paperback. Beautifully designed, this New Directions gem (originally published in the 1940s and reissued in the 1970s) rings with the deep sentiments of the season and just the right splash of holiday cheer. Christmas Poems comes with French flaps and is the perfect size for..... More
Christmas-Tide
E.P. Dutton. Cloth. Dual tone cloth binding with gilt lettering and colored designs. Heavy wear and fading on the spine. Light foxing and shelf wear on the boards. Some foxing on several pages. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
Domestic Work : Poems
Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in "The Best American Poetry 2000." Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is Assistant..... More
The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective
Dutton, March 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you..... More
Hip Hops
Everyman's Library, September 2018. Hardcover. A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets collection of poetic tributes to beer from around the world and through ages. From the ancient "Hymn to Ninkasi" (the Sumerian goddess of beer) to eighth-century Chinese poet Li Bai's "Bring in the Ale" to Robert Graves's "Strong Beer," the..... More
John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)
June 1973. Trade Paperback. The texts reprinted in this new Norton Critical Edition have been scrupulously edited and are from the Westmoreland manuscript where possible, collated against the most important families of Donne manuscripts--the Cambridge Belam, the Dublin Trinity, and the O'Flahertie--and compared with all seven seventeenth-century printed editions of..... More
The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
Oxford University Press, October 1992. Trade Paperback. The seventeenth century saw some of the great achievements in the English language. Milton wrote Paradise Lost, Donne composed his Metaphysical verse, and Shakespeare his late Romances, not to mention the work of Dryden, Marvell, Jonson, and many others. Now, this remarkable quantity..... More
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
The Easton Press, 1976. Leather. Beautiful leather binding with gold gilt lettering and designs. Silk endpapers. Only flaw is a shadow on the front pastedown endpaper where an ex-libris plate used to be. More
Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Vintage, February 2000. Trade Paperback. In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis..... More
Women of Resistance
OR Books, March 2018. Trade Paperback. A collection with a feminist ethos that cuts across race, gender identity, and sexuality. Creative activists have reacted to the 2016 Presidential election in myriad ways. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have drawn on their profound knowledge of the poetry scene to put..... More
6x6 #27: You're talking to me like I'm seven hundred (WINTER 2012 - 2013)
Ugley Duckling Presse, 2012. Paper Back. Rubber-band Bound; in folded - card cover; very good+ all around; gently read. White stickers from previous dealers affixed back cover. More
A Shropshire Lad
De Luxe Editions, 1932. Hardcover. Rubbed, darkened boards with gold lettering. Clean & solid. Illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell. Contemporary newspaper articles afixed with discolored tape in clear envelops to front end pages. Previous owner's name inked front pastedown. More
Like: Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2019. Paper Back. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A stunning new collection by the award-winning young poet and translator Like, that currency of social media, is a little word with infinite potential; it can be nearly any part of speech. Without it..... More
Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. A final completed collection of poetic works by the late National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning writer features a series of candid, alternately humorous and sobering ruminations on such topics as age, illness, and death. First/first in..... More
Briefings
W. W. Norton, March 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. David Kalstone says, "The poems are, by and large, tough or wry meditations, striking out into strange landscapes, dreams or nightmares, which are seen with entire clarity, no blurring, as if this were the only way the mind could be unwound on..... More
Sphere: The Form of a Motion (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications)
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1995. Trade Paperback. Sphere is the second of A. R. Ammons's long poems--following Tape for the Turn of the Year and preceding Garbage--that mark him as a master of this particular form. The sphere in question is the earth itself, and Ammons's wonderfully stocked..... More
Wallace Stevens, the poetry of earth
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Hardcover. Jacket is torn along the front and back flaps and the spine. Some shelf wear to the spine and previous owner's name in ink on first free page. More
Sumerian Vistas
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
The Broken Word: An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It (Poets, Penguin)
Penguin (Non-Classics), March 2011. Trade Paperback. The stunning debut from "one of the best British writers to emerge in the past decade." (Julian Barnes) With a voice that is at once fierce and lyrical, Adam Foulds tells the story of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in 1950s..... More
Introduction to Arab Poetics
N/A, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Poetry is the quintessence of Arab culture. Adonis, a leading Arab poet and scholar re-interprets this rich and ancient heritage. More
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1994. Trade Paperback. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's..... More
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972
W. W. Norton & Company, August 1994. Trade Paperback. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of Rich's..... More
