poetry poets

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, with fading to spine. The sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1985.The poems in the collection are generally focused on the role of the poet and their relationship to history and politics but, more specifically, are also a platform through which Heaney can examine his own complex relationship with the sectarian violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland (including his decision to move his family out of the north to the Republic of Ireland in 1972). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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.

Softcover. Boulder CO, Colorado Quarterly, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages. A Bonus Issue of Colorado Quarterly August 1978. INSCRIBED BY BARNSTONE on the title page. Illustrated by Karmen Effenberger. Clean 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.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Additionally with a note to the title page stating she has hand-corrected some 20 errors in the printed text, unique thus. An epic poem "on the lives of a young composer-aviator and his intimates and casual acquaintances the accumulated wisdom and lore of the world in which we live." Winner of the Yale Poetry Award. No dust jacket. Mildred Dodge Jeremy Ingalls was an American poet and scholar of Chinese literature. In 1943, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on her major poem, The Thunder Saga of Tahi, this being the result. Spine gilt faded.

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.

Hardcover. NY/San Francisco, New Directions / San Francisco Review, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and edges, unclipped. A stark panorama of late 19th and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down language. A legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams' Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. 115 pages, no markings.

Softcover. Providence RI, Burning Deck, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16 pages, oblong stapled wrappers. One of 500 copies on Strathmore Pastell paper. Original silkscreen cover by Linda Lutes. This is an advance copy with publisher's note laid in, unnumbered. Tanning to spine edge, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 6th pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated with spectacular watercolor-splashed pages by Meilo So. Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer. From sibling rivalry, school, monsters, food, and just plain silliness, to such ageless themes as the seasons, Who am I?, and the many moods of childhood, this is a collection that begs to be read aloud and shared with the whole family. The poems, from every decade of this century, showcase 137 famous poets.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 104 pages. SIGNED BY JACKSON on the title page. Clean.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 95 pages. Poems in 3 sections; I. Exiles (22 poems written between 1948 & 1958), with revisions & changes in titles. II. Tiger Lilies (25 Poems reprinted from A Roof of Tiger Lilies); III. The Alligator Bride: New Poems (24 Previously uncollected poems). Book review laid in. Red lettering in spine lightly faded. Clean copy

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".

Softcover. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. Clean copy.

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. Brunswick ME, Shanti Arts , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Poet J. R. Solonche adds The Book of a Small Fisherman to his impressive list of over thirty published poetry collections. His poems, says Chase Twichell, "are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first Printing with code letter "I-C" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A groundbreaking new biography of Ezra Pound, one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century, told through the stories of his illustrious visitors at St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC. An extraordinary book of real passionate research. In 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane. Escaping a potential death sentence he was shipped off to St Elizabeths Hospital near Washington, DC, where he was held for over a decade. At the hospital, Pound was at his most contradictory and most controversial- a genius writer - 'The most important living poet in the English language' according to T. S. Eliot - but also a traitor and now, seemingly, a madman. But he remained a magnetic figure. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell and John Berryman all went to visit him at what was perhaps the world's most unorthodox literary salon- convened by a fascist and held in a lunatic asylum. Told through the eyes of his illustrious visitors, The Bughouse captures the essence of Pound - the artistic flair, the profound human flaws - whilst telling the grand story of politics and art in the twentieth century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 84 pages. A reissue of Updike's first collection of poems, with a new foreword by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Vanguard Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SITWELL to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck on the front fly leaf.

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. London, Ellis and Elvey, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 2 volumes octavo 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches- very handsomely leather bound in a simple half period blue morocco with marbled boards with gold letters and raised dentils, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, xlii, 528, xl, 521 pages. Notes by William M. Rossetti. A fine set in a gorgeous binding. Previous owner's name on both title pages otherwise clean.

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.

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.