Alexander Pope (The Penguin Poets)
Penguin Books, January 1950. Mass Market PaperBack. More about Alexander Pope (The Penguin Poets
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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 about Bullets into Bells
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-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 about Christmas-Tide
The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul... More about The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics
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 about Domestic Work : Poems
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 about The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective
A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis And Gatsos (Romiosyni Series)
Denise Harvey Publications, July 2000. Trade Paperback. More about A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis And Gatsos (Romiosyni Series
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 about Hip Hops
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 about John Donne's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition
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 about The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
Arcturus Publishing Ltd. Trade Paperback. More about The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
The Poets Laureate Anthology
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Sweepingly erudite and strikingly personal, The Spartacus Road is a book like none other--at once a journalist's notebook, a reflection on life's fragility, including the author's own fight against cancer; and a classicist's celebration. As he travels along the Spartacus... More about The Poets Laureate Anthology
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 about RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
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 about Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Women of Resistance
OR Books, March 2018. Paper Back. 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 about Women of Resistance
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 about 6x6 #27: You're talking to me like I'm seven hundred (WINTER 2012 - 2013
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 about A Shropshire Lad
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 about Bosh and Flapdoodle: Poems
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 about Briefings
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 about Sphere: The Form of a Motion (Sara F. Yoseloff Memorial Publications
Wallace Stevens, the poetry of earth
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More about Wallace Stevens, the poetry of earth
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 about The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Sumerian Vistas
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More about Sumerian Vistas
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 about The Broken Word: An Epic Poem of the British Empire in Kenya, and the Mau Mau Uprising Against It...
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 about Introduction to Arab Poetics
