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
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2019. Hardcover. Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless, and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains, hitchhikes, dumpster dives, and sleeps in the... More
W. W. Norton, April 2008. First Edition. Cloth. With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"--not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three... 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
Firebrand Books, April 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. No jacket, as issued. First edition, signed by author on title page. More
Lines of Vision, January 1980. Soft Cover. Signed by Whittle on title page. Foxing. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In Frank Bidart's new collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work: its range is as wide as its unifying theme is specific. Here... More
Louisiana State University Press, December 1984. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in jacket. Gently read, if at all. Signed by Chappell on title page. More
Vintage, July 1984. First Thus. Paper Back. Signed by Stern on title page. More
City Lights, 1969. Trade Paperback. 1969 facsimile edition of the original 1955 book. Signed and dedicated by the author on the inside of the front cover. Lightly bumped corners, light soiling and shelf wear. Mylar overwrap. More
Identity Press, January 1973. Paper Back. Inscribed & signed on title page by Alonso. 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
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy INSCRIBED BY JOHN STONE on the front free endpaper. More
Graywolf Press, March 2002. Trade Paperback. Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library Association In the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq photographed prostitutes in the red-light district of New Orleans. His remarkable, candid photos inspired Natasha Trethewey to imagine the life of Ophelia, the subject of Bellocq's Ophelia... More
Ecco, November 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. "A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way."--Dallas Morning News Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest's My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is... More
Leo J. Hall, January 1981. Soft Cover. Signed, limited, first edition. Also gift inscription inside first page. More
HarperCollins, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering along spine in mildly rubbed, marginally tanned jacket one inch tear at rear top fold & another like tear at top of spine. Half inch by quarter inch library sale price sticker removal scar toward bottom of jacket spine... More
Penguin Books, June 2018. Paper Back. Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award "Devastating and lyrical." --The New York Times "Suspenseful and affecting." --The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir--part prose, part verse--about coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world, and... More
