Phoenix, October 2003. Trade Paperback. A collection of some of the finest verse ever written in the English language--all released to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth I's death. The Elizabethan sonneteers created haunting and magnificent poetry, as beautifully crafted as they are intensely personal. From the virtuosity..... More
Scribner, September 2019. Trade Paperback. The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology..... More
The Viking Press, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market paperback. Cover edges with mild wear. Corners bruised. Previous owner's name inked inside first page. Spine darkened. [621 pages.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1987. Trade Paperback. Memorable, witty, bawdy, profound--the short poem observes no limits except those of length. The verses collected in this anthology vary greatly in theme, style, and tone, but in each case brevity reveals the poet at his best. The short poem is often..... More
Peter Pauper Press, January 1939. Hardcover. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In tattered & torn dustjacket. One inch L-shaped tear at head of spine. Darkened at edges. Front flap is not clipped. Pictorial vertical stripped (black, white & pink stripes) paper covering boards. Black lettering on pink background along spine..... More
Penguin Workshop, February 2022. Hardcover. An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club. Poets I know sometimes joke that the poetry club at Oak Park River Forest High School is the best MFA..... More
Library of America, October 2020. Hardcover. A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets..... More
Yale University Press, October 2021. Hardcover. A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry "Does anyone know more about poetry than John Carey? Almost certainly not."--The Times A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken..... More
Graywolf Press, April 2004. First Edition. Paper Back. The only definitive anthology of contemporary British poetry available in the United States, New British Poetry presents the exciting work of thirty-five poets from England, Scotland, and Wales. In compiling this landmark anthology, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Scottish poet Don Paterson and..... More
Gingko Press, June 2002. First Edition. Cloth. Soon after the attacks of September 11th, artist Jean Holabird, who has lived just four blocks from the WTC for 27 years, started to record the wreckage visible from the perimeter of Ground Zero. Driven by instinct, she was determined to chronicle the..... More
University of Maine/ The National Poetry Foundation, January 2004. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound, without markings. 276 pages. More
Roof Books, January 1997. Trade Paperback. More
E P Dutton, January 1973. Trade Paperback. Covers creased and a bit toned; else, very good. More
Schocken, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition in dustjacket with thin margin of darkening top edge. Not clipped. Navy blue textured paper with gold lettering on spine. Black remainder mark bottom textblock edge. Dust staining top textblock edge. In red and purple ink someone has written a date and..... More
Mentor / The New American Library, October 1954. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear and darkening/foxing. Some curling to cover. Foxing to interiors, especially verso of cover pages. (307 pages plus twelve page list Mentor and NAL/Signet titles.). More
Doubleday-Anchor Original, 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Paperback original. True first. Very good+overall. Unmarked, bright cover. Foxing/darkening top edge of textblock. (458 pages.). More
Signet / New American Library, January 1969. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. True first, mass market paperback original. Worn & chipped top and bottom of spine with 1/24 inch tear at bottom of front cover along the spine. Some mild soiling to cover. Top corner of last few pages damp..... More
ANCHOR BOOKS, 1956. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Sun-bleached spine. Dust stains & streaks and grey splotches to cover. Tiny (1/2-inch x 1/4-inch ) price sticker with cracked edges affixed to front cover top right corner. Mild dust stains/foxing to textblock top & fore-edges. (346 pages.). More
Vintage Books, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Poetry@tech, September 2016. Paper Back. More
