Samovar Press/Meridian, December 2019. Paper Back. Entering its fifteenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not..... More
New Directions, November 2019. Paper Back. Black Mountain College had an explosive influence on American poetry, music, art, craft, dance, and thought; it's hard to imagine any other institution that was so utopian, rebellious, and experimental. Founded with the mission of creating rounded, complete people by balancing the arts and..... More
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
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.
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
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
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
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
House of Anansi Press, April 2020. Paper Back. As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz's twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled "Terrorism" and "Poetry." The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle between these two catalyzing concepts..... More
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
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
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
Library of Congress, January 1981. Stapled Soft Cover. More
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
WW Norton & Co, November 1987. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. More
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
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
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), August 1999. First American. Hardcover. Ted Hughes's "acting version" of the trilogy of Aeschylus' plays known as The Oresteia, a classical work of astonishing power, is quickly becoming the standard edition for English-language readers and for the stage, too. Light shelf wear on the jacket..... More
Creative Arts Book Co, June 1997. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Harper & Row, 1971. Cloth. In very good dust jacket. Green cloth with foxing. Gold lettering on spine. Yellow end pages. Lean to spine. More
Ardis Publishers, January 2009. Trade Paperback. Pushkin's "novel in verse" has influenced Russian prose as well as poetry since its completion nearly 175 years ago. By turns brilliant, entertaining, romantic, and serious, it traces the development of a young Petersburg dandy as he deals with life and love. Influenced by..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1989. Trade Paperback. Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of intense creativity over nearly twenty years. Idylls..... More
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Selected by Rosemary Gray. Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more..... More
Penguin Books, March 2020. Paper Back. A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer "whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry" (Robert Polito, the Poetry Foundation) Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode..... More
Arsenal Pulp Press, March 2020. Paper Back. In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawn from her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life..... More
Ugly Duckling Presse, April 2011. Trade Paperback. Poetry. While putting together a manuscript of work written between 1975-1990, Alcalay became dissatisfied with the notion of a "selected poems." As a response, he began to comb through photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, journal entries, and newspaper clippings from the era, and incorporated them..... More
