Softcover. West Orange NJ, Warthog Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 55 pages. B&w illustrations by Susan Micklem. INSCRIBED BY EADY on the title page. In lightly worn tan wrappers.
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. Madison, MN, The Seventies Press, 1st pbk, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 81 pages. Translated. by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly.Edited by Lewis Hyde. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mild fade to edges of dust jacket.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press;, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 123 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page and INSCRIBED by him on front fly leaf. Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning--metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them. But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Gluck, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it. An astute writer and critic of poems, Longenbach makes his case through a sustained engagement with the language of poetry. Each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry (line, syntax, figurative language, voice, disjunction) and shows that the power of poetry depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means--on the temporal process we negotiate in the act of reading or writing a poem. Readers and writers who embrace that process, Longenbach asserts, inevitably recoil from the exaggeration of the cultural power of poetry in full awareness that to inflate a poem's claim on our attention is to weaken it.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A dark, no-holds-barred, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet, veering between the poles of self and world. Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikannit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more. Combatting existential gloom with a wicked, seductive energy, Addonizio investigates desire, loss, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats, echoes Dorothy Parker, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. Sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels, a wolf at an uncomfortable party, a glowing and self-serious guitar.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a beautifully designed binding: light gray-green cloth with rough and smooth textures, beveled edges. A white area centered on cover with gilt "Wordsworth" and "Illustrated" surrounded by a gilt branches decoration. All edges gilt, 951 pages. B&W illustrations, not credited. Introduction dated 1888, followed by the poems set in double columns. Copyright page states 1892. Very clean, tight.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Poems that deal with experiences of Irish women in love, marriage, motherhood, and modern society. 'Eavan is a marvelous poet, and Outside History is the best possible introduction to her work. Love and anxiety, memories and mysteries-she's woven them all into a rich verse fabric, thrown like a flowered shawl over her shoulders as she stands out under the chilling night sky, no other soul around but (for that haunting moment) the reader's own.' -J. D. McClatchy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Stern's 12th collection is his first since winning the 1998 National Book Award for the new and selected This Time. The poems still rely on Stern's inimitable blend of coiled anger, love of life and raffish, on-the-outside-looking-in wit. Poem after poem reflects on what it means to have been a Jew, a Pennslyvanian, a nature-and-weather watcher, a world traveler and, for a longer time than many poets of his stature, an unknown writer during the middle of the last century: "If you can stand Strauss then so can I,/ oh filthy Danube, oh filthy Delaware, oh filthy Allegheny.// And anyone who never opened a Murphy bed/ night after night for seven years without ripping/ the sheet and had neither desk nor dresser can't walk/ in my shoes or wear my crocodile t-shirt." Stern's remembrances are not so much nostalgias as attempts to telescope the speaker's world and worldview through verse-talking, to test everyday language's ability to render his experiences to his liking, or at least his satisfaction.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, 289 pages. Collects poems from four of Sandburg's works. "A collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln." Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, Revised Ed., 1995, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 296 pages. In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition. Clean,bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket 81 pages. SIGNED BY KINNELL on front fly leaf. Kinnell's twelfth book of poetry.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 445 pages. Clean.
Softcover. Boston, Zephyr Press , 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. One volume edition bound in stiff dull magenta wrappers, as issued. 908 pages. An authoritative edition containing all the poems, Edited by Roberta Reeder, with Introduction by Anatoly Naiman, and a memoir by Isaiah Berlin. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. London, Anvil Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 300 pages. Bright, clean copy. "Stanley Moss is American poetry's best-kept secret, better known as the innovative publisher of other poets than for his own highly charged, stingingly beautiful lyrics. That should change with the publication of his long-awaited and gorgeous new poems. " --John Ashbery.
Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.
Softcover. Buffalo NY, Hungarian Cultural Foundation, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, First US translated printing (1973( of Jozsef's poems. Sun-fading to spine. 224 pages clean, unmarked. Several pages of b&w plates. There is a repaired paper slice to the first 3 pages, including cover. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. London & Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A series of poems inspired by the photographs taken by Fay Godwin, preceded by the Rainbow Press limited edition, which only had four of the sixty-three included here. The work reflects on the landscape and people of the Calder valley, the place of Hughes's birth and early childhood. Scarce in such nice condition.
Hardcover. NY, Century Company, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed by The DeVinne Press on white coated paper. The front cover features a silhouette of the doctor in his horse and buggy, stamped in colors, within a gilt box. Profusely illustrated with frontispiece, 26 full-page plates, and numerous drawings in the text, by C. M. Relyea. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Gallagher was born in 1943 in Washington state, and studied at the University of Washington under Theodore Roethke. She later married the poet and writer Raymond Carver.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 7th pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three uniform volumes in original red slipcase, 1266 pages. Gray cloth covers with black and gilt stamping to titles on spines. Interest in Emily Dickinson has grown throughout the years until, now, in this three-volume edition Thomas Johnson presents the entire body of poems she is known to have written, 1775 in all. Here are the familiar "I never saw a Moor" and "Because I could not stop for Death," along with other less well-known poems, including forty-three never before published. Casual notes to friends and relatives which frequently accompany scraps of verse help to reveal the poet's enigmatic character. After keen analysis of the manuscripts, Johnson has arranged the poems in what is believed to be their chronological order, with variations and rejected versions of each poem following .No dust jackets. Ink notations to about 15 pages in the 3 volumes, Otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original attractive olive cloth with a garland of leaves and flowers in gilt on the front cover. All edges gilt. Oblong llustrated book with poems by Dorr and full page illustrations in charcoal of the Rutland, Vermont area by Zulma Delacy Steele. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, gilt title & design on spine, 84 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue and gilt design on cover and spine. 184 pages, top edge gilt. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth with gilt fern and black lettering on cover, beveled edges, 178 pages. Mild foxing to some pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Channing Press, 1st Ltd Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt on front, 29 pages. With frontispiece photograph tipped in of the author with tissue guard. Number 24 of 100 copies SIGNED BY LORING ON TIPPED-IN PAGE. Glassine wrapper.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth spine with yellow paper boards, black cloth tips on corners. Chipped paper label with title on spine. Covers have some toning and soiling but the volume is square with only light wear otherwise. Cullen's version of the famous English ballad, "The Brown Girl." Attractive production, with b&w illustrations by Cullen's brother.
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.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Editions , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JAMES on the title page. Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, slightly faded gilt title on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf and dated in 1953. Preface by William Butler Yeats; Epilogue by Oliver St. John Gogarty Frontispiece drawing by Diego Rivera. For more than 20 years, the manuscript of this book, including the preface by Yeats and the epilogue by Gogarty, had been lost. Includes several poems originally published in 'Poetry' under the pseudonyms Wesley Ames, Stanley Blackpool, Everett Owens and John Creigh. 62 pages. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket, full yellow cloth, black titling. INSCRIBED BY EBERHART and dated on the front fly leaf.
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. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First edition of the second collection of poetry by the author. INSCRIBED BY ACKROYD on the title page and dated 2002. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. 64 pages.SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Owner's signature on same page at top. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. SIGNED and dated 2002 by this Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1992 on the front fly leaf. With 26 full-page reproductions of Walcott's paintings. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Laurence J. Gomme, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue paper over boards with cream cloth spine. 91 pages, mild darkening to cover edges, otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., reprint, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Embossed flexible leather covers with a string binding. Gilt script lettering on front. B&w frontispiece and many b&w engravinge throughout, 94 pages. Nice clean copy of this unusual binding.
Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages, b&w line illustrations, including frontispiece, by Hammatt Billings. No date. Ivory spine, white laminated covers with beveled gilt edges and rounded corners, bright silver, gold gilt and black decoration to the front panel. All edges gilt. Some light spotting to rear cover which is light beige color. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Sylvan Press, Ltd. Ed., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild soil. Limited to 1000 copies. 64 pages, In French and English. The author takes on the task of offering readers four of Rimbaud's best-known poems in their original text, facing them with literal transcriptions with notes that make the renderings "documents" rather than poetic translations. In a separate section he offers his own versions, taking into consideration the character of the French language. Clean copy.
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. London, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PACK on the half tittle page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Hampshire, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 1st Edition, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 36 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black cover boards, red title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A proper and modern Norse saga, written with all the power of Melville and Hemingway and a true story now retold in the ageless rhythms of blank verse, as irresistible as the beautiful and specially commissioned woodcuts of Mary Azarian.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A book length series of poems, looking at life in all its imperfections through the viewpoint of an inextinguishable character whose spirit triumphs through humor. Clayfeld, a comic everyman, is the center of these poems about the nature of beauty, sorrow, and art, as well as the potential for happiness. Thwarted continually by ordinary defeats, Clayfeld endures and laughs, loves and remembers. Critic Harold Bloom called poet Robert Pack an heir to Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 141 pages. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
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