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Penguin Books, September 1972. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. Minor foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Penguin Books, September 1972. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear on the cover. Minor foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Harcourt, September 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First Harvest edition with full letter line. Very clean and tight. More
Farrar Straus & Cudahy, January 1956. First Edition. Cloth. {6 & 3/8th' x 9 & 3/8th')Stated, 'first printing' on copyright page. In dustjacket with darkened spine and on verso. Tears top of spine and likewise bottom of spine and along folds. Flap is not clipped. Odor suggesting formerly shelved in..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2019. Hardcover. Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems--canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace--and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2017. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of..... More
Other, October 1991. Hardcover. This collection of Greek and Latin erotic poems contains an introduction acquainting the reader with ancient sexual mores in their social setting, and offering a helpful guide to reading ancient erotic verse. Poems are prefaced by brief sketches of each poet's life and times. Previous owner's..... More
Arrow Editions, February 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Steel blue cloth with darker blue lettering along spine. Spine is browned from exposure to light. Likewise darkened top margins of boards front and back. Pale blue end pages. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge. Review copy with 4 &..... More
Trianon Press, 1954. Numbered. Leather. Scarce. Octavo. In heavy card stock slip case covered with marble print paper. Full squash orange leather bound with light dust staining. A few stray spots of soiling. Limited, numbered facsimile edition of original published for The William Blake Trust. #675/800. More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His..... More
Chelsea House Pub, January 1987. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo with dustjacket glued to rear pastedown. Ex-library 'withdrawn because' stamp, stamped to last page of textblock. Rear free end page has been scissored from book. Number sticker affixed to rear pastedown. Black marker scribble top textblock edge. [182 pages]. More
Chelsea House Pub, January 2003. Library Binding. Each Volume, Covering Three To Six Poems, Includes: - User's guide- Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom- A comprehensive biography of the poet- Detailed thematic analysis of each poem- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each poem- A...... More
Turtle Point Press, April 2000. Hardcover. "Committed to Memory" is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them. The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include..... More
University of Chicago Press, October 1988. Paper Back. Be influenced by as many great writers as you can, said Ezra Pound. Pound was an assimilative poet par excellence, as George Bornstein calls him, a writer who more often adhered to a . . . classical conception of influence as benign..... More
Prentice-Hall, January 1963. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn wrapper. Rubbing & worn corners. Sticker residue/fragment front cover panel. Previous owner's name in ballpoint first inside page. Clean, bright, unmarked interior pages. [181 pages plus two page list of Twentieth Century View titles formerly available.]. More
LSU Press, October 2023. Paper Back. A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of new and selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet's spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Georgia, Bottoms draws inspiration from the American South, and..... More
Alan Swallow, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} In tan paper jacket with black lettering. Worn & flaking along spine. Darkened margins. Sun bleached flaps. Ochre cloth covered boards with black lettering. Tanned/darkened end pages with non-authorial inscription written in ink ffep. [48 pages]. More
Macmillan / St Martin's / Papermac, 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 2nd edition. 2nd printing. Shelfworn. Previous owner's addess stamp verso of front cover and again on last inside page.[255 pages]. More
Oxford Paperbacks, May 1961. Trade Paperback. As is. Bumped at the bottom of the spine, edge wear. More
Oxford University Press, December 1992. Paper Back. In 1880 Nietzsche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises on..... More
University of California Press, February 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. This is a major new selection of Samuel Johnson's best work, delightfully introduced by W. K. Wimsatt and scrupulously annotated by Frank Brady and Mr. Wimsatt.Samuel Johnson, the only writer in English since the Renaissance to give his name to a...... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Origially published 1960 by Doubleday & Co. Chipping & edgewear with mildly leaning spine. Large dark damp stain midway on textblock fore-edge and soaking into large splotch on back panel of wrapper. Affecting interior pages from 95 onward. [233 pages & five page..... More
Macmillan Pub Co./ Collier, January 1960. Paper Back. Octavo with darkening/dust staining to covers. [101 pages]. More
University of Michigan, 1962. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Univ of Texas Pr, December 1982. Trade Paperback. Moderate shelf wear on the cover. Text clean, binding tight. French/English. More
Milkweed Editions, September 2017. Paper Back. Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average..... More