Poetry
Ghosts by Albert Ayler
Futurepoem Books, July 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Native American Studies. In a madcap grammar handbook about the love that lives inside a savage world, Merry Fortune holds the keys to the tender ode, the raw confession and the syntactically exhilarating manifesto. GHOSTS will surprise you with its sharpness..... More
W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1997. First Edition. Cloth. In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over fifty years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of..... More
Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2011. Hardcover. Roy Foster's two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the New York Review of Books as a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age of disillusion. Now, Foster turns his focus to the..... More
The Line in Postmodern Poetry
University of Illinois Press, May 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in heavy burgundy cloth with bright gold lettering along the spine. Mylar wrapped to preserve. A nice crisp, clean copy. More
Invitation to Poetry: A Round of Poems from John Skelton to Dylan Thomas Arranged with Comments
Dolphin Books / Doubleday & Company, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with shelfwear/edgewear. Soiling to fore-edge. Cover drawing by Sydney Butchkes [396 pages + three pages of Dolphin books available.]. More
The New World (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
Princeton University Press, November 1985. Paper Back. Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished..... More
Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D.
Indiana University Press, November 1981. Hardcover. More
In the Clearing
Holt Rinehart Winston, December 1972. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 2nd Holt Rinehart & Winston paperback. Clean & sound. [101 pages]. More
The Poems of Robert Frost -- No. 242
Modern Library / Random House, 1946. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. Signed & inscribed & dated, 1953 by Robert Frost: 'Robert Frost to Georgia Belle Christopher, 1953'. In tattered & torn jacket with heavy chipping & tears, especially across top edge. Spine darkened. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name written..... More
The Road Not Taken: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics Deluxe)
Penguin Classics, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition For one hundred years, Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise--a person reaches a...... More
Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views) -- Spectrum Book S-TC-58
Prentice Hall, June 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name ink first inside page. [182 pages]. More
W. H. Auden
Princeton University Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. This is an indispensable reference guide to the works of one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden's writing is notoriously complex--full of puzzling allusions and shaped by influences as diverse as Old English poetry and Auden's own..... More
Selected Poetry of Lord Byron (Modern Library Classics)
Modern Library, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From Manfred, with its..... More
John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth Century Views)
Spectrum / Prentice-Hall Inc., January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. 6th printing. Previous reader's name written in ink first inside page. Pencil notes at bottom of last page of text.Else interiors appear to be without markings. Moderate shelf wear. [183 pages plus three page list of 20th Century Views titles then..... More
New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950
Oxford University Press, October 1972. Book Club. Cloth. 'The New Oxford Book of English Verse' is now firmly established as a classic anthology of English poetry. Chosen by the distinguished scholar and critic, Dame Helen Gardner, the book makes available in one volume the full range and variety of English..... More
Infinity on the Anvil -- A Critical Study of Blake's Poetry
Basil Blackwell, January 1954. Cloth. Octavo. Without dustjacket. Brick red cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Sun lightened spine. Two previous owner's names inked ffep. Also embossed address stamp and inked rubber stamped previous owners. Heavily underlining with green ink. Likewise side notes in same ink. Soiling to end pages..... More
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2001. Hardcover. Described by a contemporary as mad, bad, and dangerous to know, Byron has been haunted by his infamous reputation for over 200 years. This readable and lively biography of the poet examines his chaotic life story, full of contradictions--an aristocrat with republican views..... More
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
University of Pittsburgh Press, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away--loved..... More
May Day speech
City Lights, January 1970. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo {5 & 1/2 x 8'}; Stapled pamphlet with cardstock cover with photos by Les Payne (of Uptight Magazine). Edgewear, short creases and some darkening of spine side. Creased fore-edge side at bottom. Red rubber stamp from previous dealer. Some yellow highlighting..... More
Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020
NYRB Poets, November 2021. Paper Back. An epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet's magnum opus. Forty-four years in the making, Migrations is considered by critics to be a masterpiece of modern Mexican literature. Gloria Gervitz's..... More
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: a Handbook
Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1961. Paper Back. Spine lightly worn; Text free of markings; Previous owner stamp + initials present. More
A Garden of Roman Verse (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
Oxford University Press, September 1998. Hardcover. The glorious poetry of Rome has endured for more than two thousand years. For most of that time, it was read only in the original Latin, but over the centuries celebrated writers, from John Dryden to Aubrey Beardsley to Ezra Pound, have been inspired..... More
The life of Gibran Khalil Gibran and his Procession
Arab-American Press, January 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy blue cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt lettering at front cover; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket fair w/ circular staining present at front, browning/fading present throughout, top edge moderately chipped; Jacket now housed in protective mylar for further preservation..... More
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
Write Bloody Publishing, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Hauntingly vivid, the poems march through a soldier's lingering psychological wounds, tackle the curious questions of school children on the meaning of "hate", and tangle with a lover's witty and vibrant description of longing.Four-time Denver Grand Champion, Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of..... More