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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
Viking / Compass Books, 1959. Reprint. Soft Cover. Third printing, September, 1959. Octavo. Well worn cover at edges and spine folds. Starting to tear at top & bottom along the fold, Sightly cocked spine. Previious reader's name in ink first inside. [303 pages]. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. No dustjacket. Foxing. Signed & inscribed by John Malcolm Brinnin front free end page. 73 pages. More
University of Minnesota Press, January 1967. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. Second Printing. Stampled Pamphlet with wear along spine. Two Staples. [47 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, March 1972. Paper Back. In this, the first introductory volume of the Cambridge Milton for Schools and Colleges, Professor Broadbent, the general editor of the series, presents background and introductory material essential to students for a proper understanding of Paradise Lost. Chapters on mythology, the epic, the..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, September 1996. Hardcover. Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott--three Nobel laureates and threeof our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologiesthat surround one of America's most famous and beloved deceased poets--RobertFrost. Previous owner's name. More
Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., June, 1943. Reprint. Cloth. {5 & 1/4' x 7 & 3/4'} 12mo. 2nd edition / 2nd printing. Teal cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine edge and black facsimile of Brooke's signature center on front board. Jacket is darkened at margins & folds with darkened..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, January 1939. Trade Paperback. This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such..... More
Harvest Books, 1947. Mass Market PaperBack. HB-11; notable shelf wear, rubbing anf fading on cover and spine; some page corner creasing/folding on the bottom, esp. toward the front of book; name and date (1963) written in ink (and then crossed out) on inside cover; name written in ink on front..... More
Andrews McMeel Publishing, May 2023. Trade Paperback. From beloved yogi, teacher, and artist Elena Brower comes the writer's debut collection of poetry: a lyrical exploration of grief, self-compassion, and learning from the past to navigate life's challenges with grace. Softening Time is both autobiography and self-help, poetry and inspiration. Drawing..... More
Anhinga Press, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Copper Canyon Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. The Tradition explores cultural threats on black bodies, resistance, and the interplay of desire and privilege in a dangerous era. Signed on the title page by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown. More
The Modern Library, 1951. Hardcover. Red cloth. Ink inscription on front endpaper. Dustjacket chipping. Spine cracked between back end page and index of Modern Library titles. [723 pages]. More
Ithaca House. Trade Paperback. 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
Carcanet Press Ltd., April 2002. Trade Paperback. Revolutionary Sonnets explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering and funny. More
University of Oklahoma Press, December 1983. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 9'} In dustjacket. Orange-red cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Frst US edition. Previous reader's name inked on ffep. [264 pages]. More
Penguin Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang..... More
Bibliophile Society, 1916. First Thus. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4' x 9 & 3/4'} Heavily worn with flacking to edges, especially at bottom & top of spine. Starting to split along spine edge at bottom and top. Corners are bumped & crushed with cardstock boards exposed. Marble print paper covered boards..... More
Centaur Press, January 1936. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Seven inch tear to cloth along front hinge. Top textblock edge tinted black. Signed by Burnshaw on copywright page. [114 pages]. More
George Braziller Inc., September 1989. Reprint. Paper Back. The book has an important purpose: to rescue Frost from the negative image that has lingered like a dark storm cloud since Lawrence Thompson's three-volume biography. Frost told Burnshaw, his long-time friend and sometimes editor, 'I'm counting on you to protect me..... More
David McKay, January 1931. Hardcover. Gilt-decorative brick cloth. Considerable cover wear. Some foxing and loosening of inner hinge. Includes 12 full-page Art Deco illustrations by Will Pogany. More
Oxford Univ. Press, January 1963. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Collier Books, January 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. First Collier paperback edition. Octavo. Edgewear, especially top & bottom of spine. Tiny sticker removal scar top right front corner. Bits of sticker residue also upon front cover. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [224 pages]. More
Collier Books, 1967. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Rubber stamped by a previous dealer lower right corner of same page: [224 pp.]. More
Princeton University Press, March 1980. Cloth. Honoring the centennial of Stevens' birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens' best-known critics. Also included are 128 previously unpublished lines that appear in the poet's From the Journal of Crispin (an early version of The Comedian as the Letter C);..... More
Alfred Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Cloth. First/first {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Green cloth covered spine.with fading gold lettering and black cloth covered boards with rubbing. Blue-grey title plate affixed to top half of front panel. Heavy wear to board edges and raised spine edge ribs. All four board corners..... More
Prentice Hall, January 1963. Trade Paperback. More
Mercier Press, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with foxing, dog-earred pages. [187 pages]. More
Red Hen Press, January 2010. Paper Back. **Winner of the American Book Award **Silver Medalist for the California Book Award Suck on the Marrow is a historical narrative, revolving around six main characters and set in mid-19th century Virginia and Philadelphia. The book traces the experiences of fugitive slaves, kidnapped..... More
Nightboat Books, December 2010. Paper Back. This book gathers a decade of Caroline Bergvall's innovative pieces, from her long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic contortions of Hans Bellmer's Doll and violent love fantasies of other radical body-inspired artists, The Shorter Chaucer, a series of contemporary tales..... More
Houghton Mifflin (P), October 1982. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. First/first US trade paperback. More
E.P. Dutton, 1929. First Thus. Cloth. First American Edition in dust-stained, spine-darkened pink dustjacket with blue lettering and chipping/edgewear with considerable wear to top of spine. Spine & corners Carolina blue & boards sky blue. Much faded/darkened gilt printed paper labels spine and front board. Edges of cloth worn/frayed top..... More
Copper Canyon Press, November 1993. Trade Paperback. Ten poems spanning fifty years, are the companion to Carruth's Collected Shorter Poems, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. "The work here seems to break every rule of modern poetry, yet it succeeds.... This volume displays the huge range..... More
New Directions, February 2024. Paper Back. Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1989. Paper Back. In these splendid verse translations, Charles Martin makes newly accessible the work of one of ancient Rome's most widely read and exciting poets. It is the life and language of Roman streets that gives this poetry its force and lasting appeal. Catullus..... More
Princeton University Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered..... More
J.M. Dent & Sons, July 1993. Trade Paperback. God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic..... More
Contra Mundum Press, October 2020. Paper Back. In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that "would be a bit more sober & more spacious" than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such "more spacious" work -- i.e. prose..... More
Seagull Books, August 2010. Hardcover. Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most..... More
Sheep Meadow Pr. Paper Back. Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried..... More
University of California Press, November 1984. Oversize Softcover. This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Césaire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Césaire in English. Text block clean and free of underlining and..... More
Pushkin Press, September 2023. Paper Back. An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the..... More
Milkweed Editions, June 2021. Paper Back. Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive. "You were supposed to find God here / the signs..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2024. Hardcover. A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only..... More
TriQuarterly, April 2015. Trade Paperback. What does it mean to pray or praise in the twenty-first century? What does it mean to lament, to attend? In this volatile, visionary debut collection, Danielle Chapman seeks "to be known / in one's own person as crocuses are known / by sun, conceiving..... More
Milkweed Editions, May 2024. Paper Back. From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. Jos Charles's poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. "A scandal / three cartons..... More
William Sloane Associates / Apollo Editions, January 1955. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Back cover has damp staining & large scar that takes up about one-third of page. A previous reader has written name in ink on half title page. General wear and creasing. [191 pages]. More
Easton Press, 1978. Leather. Brown full leather cover with gilt lettering and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; tan/peach silk endpages in front and back, fading lightly at page perimeter; tan/gold satin ribbon bookmark; Easton Press bookplate personalized and affixed on inside of 2nd front..... More
Penguin Classics, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor original. Paperback first edition. Darkened spine and cover margins with mild edgewear and creased to corners. [482 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, October 2002. Paper Back. Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of personal, familial, or national significance, The Afterlife of Objects is a kind of dreamed autobiography. With poise and skill, Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind of not just one individual..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2007. Paper Back. Dan Chiasson, hailed as "one of the most gifted poets of his generation" upon the appearance of his first book, takes inspiration for his stunning new collection from the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder. "What happens next, you won't believe," Chiasson writes..... More
Ecco, November 2023. Paper Back. Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022" A Goodreads Readers Choice Award Semifinalist From..... More
Penguin Books, October 2023. Paper Back. "Mind detritus becomes the stuff of great art in the hands of poet Adrienne Chung . . . a poet in complete command of her craft." --NPR.org "Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat . . . Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Chung..... More
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1963. Trade Paperback. good tight binding; spine sun bleached; notable shelfwear on front cover and along edges; name writ5ten in pen on front free end page; earlier resale price written and crossed out in pen. More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1979. Trade Paperback. John Ciardi published his first poem in Poetry magazine in 1939. The forty year since have been fruitful ones. His translation ofThe Divine Comedy is the definitive American rendering. His How Does a Poem Mean?, now in a new edition with..... More
Henry Holt, January 1940. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 3/4'} Octavo. Red cloth with gold lettering front board and along spine.Beige end pages dust stained. Tight binding. Without markings. 62 pages. More
Ecco Press, November 1988. Paper Back. More
A shuffaloff/Eternal Network Joint, 2012. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Penguin Classics, May 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Methuen & Co Ltd, January 1968. Paper Back. Previous owner's name first inside page. UK edition. [214 pages]. More
Grove Press, 1964. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback, originally published earlier in the same year, 1964 by Oliver and Boyd, Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland. Edgeworn. Indentation from sound bump middle of front cover panel. [118 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, January 1960. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Minor cover wear and markings. More
Princeton University Press, October 2001. Hardcover. Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this long-awaited new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the..... More
Estes and Lauriat. Cloth. 27 illustrations by Gustave Dore, Birket Foster & others. Worn floral end pages. Non-authorial inscription (dated 1892); loose binding yet still intact; much wear to board edges; heavy tanning & rubbing to spine; appears to have been rebound with Art Nouveau flower design cloth spine with..... More
Broadview Press Inc, August 2008. Paper Back. Twenty-three poems that transformed English poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge composed this powerful selection of poetry during their youthful and intimate friendship. Reproducing the first edition of 1798, this edition of "Lyrical Ballads" allows modern readers to recapture the bookas original impact. In these..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, June 1995. Trade Paperback. This collection of poems has a subject matter ranging from the gustatory pleasures of osso buco to an analysis of the handwriting of Keats; from the art form of the calendar pinup to blues music. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, November 2023. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 135 small poems, eleven of them new to this edition, and each a thought or observation compressed to..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, January 1999. Trade Paperback. Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."..... More
Random House, October 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him "America's favorite poet."..... More
University of Georgia Press, February 2018. Trade Paperback. This collection of lyric poems wrestles with a sense of self that has become fragmented by the experience of war. Christopher P. Collins has taken his tours in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, extracted their emotional shrapnel, and examined their toll on..... More
George. Braziller, January 1967. Hardcover. Green paper covered boards with black lettering. Mild slant to spine. Darkening/discoloration to end pages, especially at rear. Small dark stop near top of spine, back cover. Tiny bumped tear bottom board edge of same.Otherwise boards are clean, bright without defects. Heavily damp stained jacket..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 2006. Paper Back. T. S. Eliot is not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand..... More