Poetry

Softcover. London, Faber & Gwyer, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial blue paper wrappers with narrow flap folds, 4 pages,stabbed & tied, edges slightly faded and rubbed. Cover separated at spine. Series: Ariel Poems ; No. 14. This poem was first printed, with slightly different text, in Flame, an Independent Labour Party magazine, in December 1925, under the title To An Inconspicuous Friend.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. One of the most pensive & delicious of all our poets, completed shortly before his death, Matthews seems to be looking his last . on all things lovely: music, food, wine, and especially love. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as "the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens." In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: "Bus Stop," "Men at Forty," "Dance Lessons of the Thirties," "The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns." This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The latest collection from award-winning poet Vievee Francis, The Shared World imagines the ideas and ideals and spaces of the Black woman. The book delves into inherited memories and restrictions between families, lovers, and strangers and the perception and inconvenient truth of Black woman as motherwith or without child. Francis challenges the ways in which Black women are often dismissed while expected to be nurturing.

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Poet's first collection. SIGNED BY VOIGT on the title page, clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1sr, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in faded blue boards with a black cloth spine, title label on front cover. 138 pages, humorous poetry with fabulous b/w illustrations by Stuart Hay. The author was a humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel, supposed authors of humorous verse. Despite cover fading, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. The Air's Accomplices vividly evokes poet Brendan Galvin's love for the rugged landscapes of Cape Cod and Ireland and their elusive inhabitants. Weaving themes of death, migration, and aging into an exploration of the natural world, Galvin's work reflects a deep engagement with the places he and his family have called home, as well as with the triumphs and tragedies of human life. Faint corner crease to cover. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Red Hen Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 72 pages, INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. A collection of poems about various subjects & life experiences, including Mayflies, Marchen, Listening to September & Sea Huns. Clean copy.

Softcover. Austin TX/NY, Curbstone Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 47 pages. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. A collection which includes some of Collins' most anthologized poems, including "Introduction to Poetry," "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House," and "Advice to Writers".

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 894 pages. Edited by Jay Parini and with poetry and poetry criticism by Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor by Francis Murphy, Early African American Poetry, by Carolivia Herron, The Epic in the Nineteenth Century, by John McWilliams, Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism, by Dana Gioia, The Transcendentalist Poets by Lawrence Buell, Emily Dickinson, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Walt Whitman, by Donald Pease and many others, such as Dana Gioia, Gregory Orr, Ann Charters, William Pritchard, Helen Vendler, Edward Hirsch, and the work of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, the Beat poets and Native American poets and others. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, decorations including cover gilt design by Margaret Armstrong. Title page in red and black. There is damp staining/fading of the green cloth covers along the top inch or so on both the front and rear. This does not effect any pages internally. There is a previous owner's signature along with "Xmas 1901" on the front fly leaf. Aside from the cover fade, a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Ashfield MA, Paris Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 74 pages, clean, bright copy. Unclipped dust jacket also pristine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 57 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line on copyright page. SIGNED BY KINNELL on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on title page. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR opposite title page. Clean, tight copy in protective glassine wrapper.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 90 pages. 10 color plates and frontispiece by John Rae. Gold decorations on endpapers. White cover with blue sparkly spine and corners. Color illustration front cover and gold lettering on cover and spine. Spine and edgewear. Soiling to covers.

Softcover. Paris, Pierre Seghers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 54 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Hand stamped #35 of 300. Maroon paper covers with paste down titles on spine and front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Santa Monica, The Lapis Press, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with french flaps & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Pen marking to several pages in commentary sections. Poetry is clean & unmarked throughout. Black printed illustrations.

Hardcover. London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black and white cloth cover, slight wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. Previous owner's stamp on top edge. Illustrated by Jim Dine. Translated by Ron Padgett. Many b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1st US, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages, hardcover. A Hidden Life and Other Poems. Cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. Beveled boards. Slight tears to head of spine. Edgewear and bumping to boards. Rubbing to boards as well, but gilt is still relatively bright. Mild cocking to spine, binding still tight. Slight staining from bleed half title page to prelim page. Previous owner's inscription to prelim page. With tipped-in old timey bookmark. A bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a brigh dust jacket with light edgewear. SIGNED BY KHERDIAN on front end paper.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOMUNYAKAA on title page.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages, INSCRIBED BY GRAHAM on half title page. The award winning poet's first book, scarce in hardcover. Very good in a similar dust jacket. There is a small ink notation on the last (copyright) page by the previous owner.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Tight, bright copy. Light rubbing on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Clean tight copy with minor wear to spine.

Hardcover. Berkshire, England, Golden Cockerel Press, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages. Hardcover. "This edition of 750 copies finished March 24th, 1922." With a lithograph portrait of the author by Pamela Bianco (see image) with tissue guard. Bound in green boards (faded), and blue cloth spine, (sunned) with paper paste-down label. Hinge split at gutter on back endpapers and gutter split at pages 48-49 (see image), binding still completely attached and no pages missing. Uncut edges. Light tanning from age throughout. Has clear, plastic mylar cover. Errata insert at contents page (see image). A clean, very good copy. The 8th book published by the Golden Cockerel Press.

Hardcover. Brewster MA, Paraclete Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. He found himself entranced by Orthodox churches and monasteries, above all by the icons that seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my senses." Translated by Mark S. Burrows.

Softcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 173 pages. Stated First Edition, The hardcover edition was also published concurrently. Wonderful work by the great Israeli poet and war veteran; all poems were originally published and written in Hebrew and newly translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. The poet's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Clean copy.

NY, Harcourt , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages. SIGNED BY SIMIC on the title page. In this new collection of sixty-two poems Charles Simic paints exquisite and shattering word pictures that lend meaning to a chaotic world populated by insects, bridal veils, pallbearers, TV sets, parrots, and a finely detailed dragonfly. Suffused with hope yet unafraid to mock his own credulity, Simic's searing metaphors unite the solemn with the absurd. He received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on brown square on spine. 466 pages. Of this collected verse, Auden writes that the poems here fall into two categories: pieces he has "nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the [other] class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim". No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934. Clean tight copy..

Softcover. Leicester UK, Troubador Publishing Ltd, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy wrappers, 104 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Softcover. Jersey City NJ, Talisman House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 265 pages. A key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, Madeline Gleason (1903-1979) is among the principal poets in the history of women's writing. Associated early in her career with Robert Duncan and James Broughton, she was also much respected by the Beats, and she was one of the few women whose work was included in Donald Allen's landmark anthology, The New American Poetry (1960). Here is a true born poet, of which there are always too few: a poet who cannot help thinking poetically and singing out of herself--James Broughton. In her own works she created a transition from the passional poetry close to Yeats as a master to an exuberant individual creation swinging in an ambit that could include Mother Goose and, long before 'Pop Art,' the voices of individual America--Robert Duncan. Edited and with a preface by Christopher Wagstaff.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn dust jacket with light fading. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Poems that deal with Darwin's voyages, evolution, ecology, natural selection, and animals. Illustrations by Rudy Pozzatti. No markings.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. A collection of eight talk poems that were previously only performed spontaneously, by American poet and performance artist, David Antin. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY BYRD. "Byrd sure shoots a mean game with words. His language, his subject matter, his sensibility are there to remind us that 'we really inhabit / the holy body of God,' that we are all 'hungry ghosts / all of us." Ultimately, Byrd's book is about the community Byrd has learned to embrace--his book is a work that pays homage to those who have formed him--his neighbors, his children, his wife, the poets whose voices still urge him to write. This is a book for everybody." --Benjamin Alire Saenz. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press , 3rd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Cover price of $2.45, E-552, ISBN number on rear cover so post 1970. Clean copy. This is the 3rd printing of the original Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses) by Jack Kerouac, a long poem composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959. It has been the inspiration for multiple films and novels, and serves as a pillar of Kerouac's oeuvre.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. Some fading to color on the covers, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. St. Louis, Washington University Libraries, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages in stapled wrappers. An exhibit of printed materials and manuscripts drawn from the Modern Literature Collection of Washington University. Illustrated. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. French text.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.

Hardcover. Port Townsend, Wash., Copper Canyon Press, 2nd Printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, a spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1985-10-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

softcover. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Small red stain on rear cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Black & white illustrations by W.J. Hennessy. Foxing to pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Title and decoration of girl raking in gilt on front cover and spine.

Hardcover. Concord NH, William B. Ewert, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 SIGNED AND NUMBERED Volumes. Hardcovers. The Snow Hen (1979) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 1-7 of The Chestnut Rain. 27 pages. SIGNED. The Ewe's Song (1980) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 8-18 of The Chestnut Rain. 27 pages. SIGNED. Blackberry Light (1981) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Sections 19-32 of The Chestnut Rain. 32 pages. SIGNED. Wenzel/The Ghost (1984) - Limited edition of 126 copies. Concluding Sections of The Chestnut Rain. 45 pages. SIGNED. Clean, bright copies.

New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. B&W illustrations. Green cloth cover with sun-fading and slight soiling. Gilt title to spine. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Other poetry by author inlaid. Overall, a clean, tight copy.