Poetry
a Year & other poems
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
Walt Whitman Reconsidered
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
The Canterbury Tales
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
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
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
Troilus and Criseyde -- A 524
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
The Afterlife of Objects (Phoenix Poets)
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
Natural History: Poems
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
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
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
Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)
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
The Worlds of Shakespeare
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
For Instance
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
Homeward to America
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
Essential Donne (Essential Poets)
Ecco Press, November 1988. Paper Back. More
Feathered Dinosaurs
A shuffaloff/Eternal Network Joint, 2012. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Clarke: Selected Poems (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Penguin Classics, May 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Chaucer's Early Poetry (University Paperbacks, 276)
Methuen & Co Ltd, January 1968. Paper Back. Previous owner's name first inside page. UK edition. [214 pages]. More
Samuel Beckett (EP29)
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
The poet Chaucer (The home university library of modern knowledge)
Oxford University Press, January 1960. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Minor cover wear and markings. More
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. 16. Poetical Works: Part 1. Poems (Reading Text). (Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 17)
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
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts ( Illustrated by Gustave Dore, Birket Foster, and Others )
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
Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800 (Critical)
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
Art Of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series)
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
Musical Tables: Poems
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
Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series)
University of Pittsburgh Press, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize Over the past decade, 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...... More