The Idea of the Canterbury Tales
University of California Press, April 1978. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First/first US paperback. Previous owner's name written in ink, first inside page. Complete number line. [403 pages]. More
University of California Press, April 1978. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First/first US paperback. Previous owner's name written in ink, first inside page. Complete number line. [403 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2024. Hardcover. Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential..... More
Waywiser Press, February 2009. Paper Back. An exciting new collection of in-depth interviews with seven important American poets. Interviewees include Ashbery. Hall, Hecht. Justice, Simic. Snodgrass, and Wilbur. An informative, entertaining, candid and occasionally surprising panopticon of a book. More
Houghton Mifflin, December 1998. Hardcover. These diverse poems of past and present, of order and disorder, press on with the forceful explorations that Andrew Hudgins began with his first book, Saints and Strangers, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. Since then, his poetry has probed the nature of..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, March 1982. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing and small remainder mark on the edges of the print block. More
Harper & Row, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' X 9 & 1/2'} In edgeworn jacket with clipped flap. Half inch rough hewn tear bottom edge of rear jacket panel and yet another similar tear at top of spine. Jacket spine darkened by sun. Black end papers. Splash..... More
PerfectBound, January 1993. First Thus. Paper Back. For that very specific and historically brief situation within the theater, Shakespeare invented a language that is somehow closer to the vital, expressive life of English, still, than anything set down since. The harder one looks at it the odder this seems. The..... More
Wesleyan University Press, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Assembling Alternatives brings together five English-speaking communities -- the U.S., U.K., Canada, Ireland and Australia -- to discuss how national differences have inflected poetic experimentation. The 24 essays provide historic overviews, close readings, personal views and polemics on poetics as they have developed..... More
Yale Univ Pr, February 1979. Hardcover. Gilt-decorative red cloth. More
Modern Language Association, 2001. Reprint. Paper Back. Now at sixty-four volumes, the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to the teaching of the..... More
George Allen & Unwin, January 1982. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4 x 8 & 1/2'} Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [213 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, July 1967. Oversize Softcover. As is. Small Christmas sticker on the front cover. More
Harvest / Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Some scattered ink underlining & marginal notes. Darkened spine. More
North Atlantic Books, December 2009. First Edition. Cloth. ***Winner of Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award Kenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as..... More
E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback with sun bleached spine. Rubbing/creasing to cover. Clear tape reinforcement to spine.[116 pages]. More
Olympic Marketing Corp, December 1982. Hardcover. Later printing. Clipped jacket. More
Loyola Press, April 1997. Trade Paperback. First published in 1969, Milward's "A Commentary On The Sonnets Of G.M. Hopkins" has-become a classic of Hopkins criticism. In the tradition of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Donne, and Milton, Jesuit poet Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote a series of acclaimed metaphysical and religious, personal and..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023. Hardcover. A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes: his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning..... More
Prentice-Hall, January 1962. Trade Paperback. 7TH PRINTING. More
Alice James Books, February 2024. Paper Back. Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot "It's not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout..... More
Burning Deck, January 2000. Paper Back. Poetry. Fourth in Burning Deck's Dichten = series of current German writing in English translation, REFT AND LIGHT presents a series of exuberant, playful language experiments by the well-known German poet. In an unusual twist, each poem is rendered in multiple English versions by..... More
Burning Deck, January 2000. Paper Back. Poetry. Fourth in Burning Deck's Dichten = series of current German writing in English translation, REFT AND LIGHT presents a series of exuberant, playful language experiments by the well-known German poet. In an unusual twist, each poem is rendered in multiple English versions by..... More
Macmillan and Co. Ltd., January 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In dustjacket with mild stains and shelf wear. Front flap is not clipped. UK edition. Umber cloth covered boards with gold lettering. [183 pages]. More
Vintage, June 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Robinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century. In this volume, essential poems selected from his major works provide an excellent overview of Jeffers's style and the themes present throughout his work. Drawn from volumes published throughout his career..... More
Random House, January 1959. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with sun-tanned spine with darkened margins. Flap not clipped. Wide (non-clear) tape has been used to re-enforce and 'repair' jacket. Red brick cloth covered boards with silver lettering framed within black frame. Top textblock edge tinted grey. Random House colophon stamp..... More