Black Sparrow Pr, March 1990. Limited. Hardcover. Number 125 of the 500 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. Printed boards in cloth backstrip with paper spine label with glassine wrap. Very light foxing on boards, more significant foxing on edges. Glassine a little soiled. Otherwise, a clean, square copy. More
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
Penguin Press, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller! The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry..... More
Penguin Press, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. An instant New York Times bestseller! The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry..... More
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
Knopf, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Kevin Young follows his acclaimed exploration of the blues in Jelly Roll with another playful riff on a vital art form, giving us a film noir in verse. Black Maria-the title is a slang term for a police van as well as a hearse-is a...... More
Knopf, March 2014. Reprint. Hardcover. A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement..... More
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
Beacon Press, September 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we..... More
Beacon Press (MA), April 2004. Hardcover. Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-seven new poems, all written within the last two years, and each exhibiting..... More
City Lights, 1958, January 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
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
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
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
Ahsahta Press, March 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Carrie Olivia Adams delves into a space defined by air and sky, each movement another scene of a movie re-filmed many times over. INTERVENING ABSENCE, a series of sequences that question silence and interaction (and which both stand alone and themselves..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. First/first U.S. Octavo in jacket with mild edgewear. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards wih gold lettering on spine edge & blind stamped 'Lucky Life' front board. These boards' corners slightly bruised. Sound binding. Complete number string. Signed by Stern on..... More
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
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
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
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
Black Sparrow Press, April 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST--The New York Times and Washington Post A voice for justice, anti-racism, and equality--here is the greatest and most powerful work of the people's poet, Wanda Coleman. Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with..... More
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
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
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
