Penguin USA (P), June 1989. Mass Market PaperBack. This is the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these poems, originally written in the Persian language, is a high point of the 19th century and..... More
University of Washington Press, 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. {4&3/4' x 7&3/4'} Heavy edgewear. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [68 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, July 1993. Paper Back. The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs..... More
Grosset & Dunlap, No date given. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. Quarater bound. Much soiled cream colored cloth spine with beautiful blue, red, and pink floral pattern covering boards wiith paper title/author plate in green & white affixed to upper right corner of front. Cover edge worn. Spine is without text. No..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1965. Paper Back. This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, Professor Kirk's vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. His purpose remains the same: to develop a comprehensive and..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008. Hardcover. Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch--"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)--has established himself among the most controversial and fearless critics writing today. Sure..... More
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
Vintage, January 1975. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with slightly darkened spine and margins. Previous owner's name & a date in sharpie. [113 pages]. More
HarperCollins, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can..... More
Seabury Press, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. First U.S. Edition. In mildly edgeworn DJ. Flap not clipped. Magenta cloth covered spine with silver lettering & black paper covered boards. In German & English. 262 pages. More
Copper Canyon Press, May 2004. Paper Back. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good..... More
Copper Canyon Press, August 2023. Hardcover. In her loving Foreword to this expanded anniversary edition, Naomi Shihab Nye writes "Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends... This slim volume..... More
University California Press, April 1970. Soft Cover. Octavo with worn cover. Sticker residue front cover. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [180 pages]. More
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper Colophon, 1978, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
New York University Press / University of London Press Limited, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Moderate wear to over. Rubbing. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [327 pages]. More
Atlantic Little Brown, 1975, January 1975. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length gently creased from use; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1995. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Douglas & McIntyre, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Copper Canyon Press, April 2023. Paper Back. Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy. Existentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau's dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons..... More
Roof Books, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This hybrid genre collection of poetry and prose tells the story of one Philadelphia neighborhood, Germantown--a historic, beloved place, wrestling with legacies of colonialism, racism, and capitalism. Drawing from interviews, historical research, and two divergent but quintessential American texts (The Autobiography..... More
Hannau Robinson, Inc., 1969. Reprint. Cloth. Second printing. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} Green cloth covered quarto with gold lettering & decoration front board. Grey-green illustrated front and rear end pages.Previous owner's inscription verso of ffep. {44 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988) and Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse--by..... More
Faber & Faber, December 2010. Hardcover. This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones's death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle - day by day, sometimes hour by hour - every aspect of Larkin's life and the convolutions of..... More
Anhinga Press, December 2011. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Poetry. "These beautiful poems are steeped in the dark tannin of loss. Redwater rivers, blackwater rivers they carry on, tributaries distributing memories through the sandy landscape of home. The poems are formally measured, with an elegiac economy, quiet Eliotic echoes, the ever-presence..... More
