poetry poets

Hardcover. NY, Ecco Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. (American Poetry Series; Volume 13). The author's first published collection of poetry. small closed tear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 78 pages. Clean, like new.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tucson AZ, Grilled Flowers Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, includes critical essays by Louis Gallo and Alan Ziegler, an interview by Naomi Shihab, and a preface and portfolio of 18 new poems by Benedikt. 75 pages. INSCRIBED BY BENEDIKT on title page. Also signed on copyright page in red. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 115 pages, black cloth covers in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Pacific Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 134 pages. Contains 78 poems of 71 poets. The 25th annual volume published in the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards series. Clean copy.

Softcover. Detroit MI, Broadside Press, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 34 pages. Introduction by Dudley Randall. A seminal pamphlet from the Black Arts Movement, the work lays out Lee's early reflections on Black identity, self-respect, and cultural affirmation. Haki Madhubuti (He changed his name in 1973) published his first collection of poems, Think Black, in 1967 followed by Black Pride (1968), Don't Cry, Scream (1969), We Walk the Way of the New World (1970) and Book of Life (1973). His works deal with issues of racism, violence, stigmatization, and oppression of black people in America as well as the use of Christianity to persuade them to accept their condition. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards, gilt titles to spine (faded) and gilt vignette to front board. 81 pages, decorations by Charles Child. New poems by Benet just after his Pulitzer winning John Brown's Body. Inside, as new, with no prior owner marks, and no stains or browning.

Hardcover. County Meath IR, Gallery Books, 1st , 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 55 pages, black cloth covers. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Knopf, 1st ARC, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Uncorrected proofs in blue printed wrappers, the second collection, third book by this MacArthur Fellowship winner. Pub material stapled in; other than staples and minor scratching (from staples). Clean.

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange paper covered boards with purple cloth spine and gold spine title, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half title page. Also card-size poem ("Billy Budd") laid in with envelope, signed by Barnstone. Clean , bright copy.

Softcover. Dublin IR, SurVision Books, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the 2018 James Tate Poetry Prize .

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.

Hardcover. Lewisburg ME, Bucknell University Press , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 321 pages, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE TRANSLATOR, DANIEL SHAPIRO on the title page. Bilingual edition. Chilean poet Tomas Harris's Cipango - written in the 1980s, first published in 1992, and considered by many to be the author's best work to date - employs the metaphor of a journey. The poems collectively allude to the voyage of Columbus, who believed that he'd reached the Far East ("Cipango," or Japan), not the Americas. Building on that mistaken historical premise, Cipango comments on the oppressive legacy of colonialism in Latin America - manifested in twentieth-century Chile through the 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet and the brutal dictatorship there - and on the violence and degradation of contemporary urban society. The author's vision is of a decadent, apocalyptic world that nonetheless contains the possibility for regeneration. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt embossed lettering on spine, gilt lettering and black design on front. No dust jacket. 19 mostly full-page engraved illustrations. Will Carleton, brought up in a log farmhouse in rural Michigan, was America's poet. Writing about ordinary Americans and everyday life, he enjoyed the same kind of success that Robert Burns had in Scotland. "Betsy and I Are Out," a poem about divorce, was picked up by a national newspaper and brought him widespread recognition, that was cemented by "Over The Hill To the Poorhouse," which brought attention to the shabby treatment provided to the country's old and poor. "City Legends" is Carleton's third collection of "city" related poetry and 17th collection overall. Clean, bright copy.

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. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 330 pages. The Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound contains the complete text, the poet's first six books, their title pages in facsimile (A Lume Spento, 1908; A Quinzaine for This Yule, 1908; Personae, 1909; Exultations, 1909; Canzoni, 1911; Ripostes, 1912), and the long poem Redondillas (1911). There are, in addition, twenty-five poems originally published in periodicals but not previously collected, as well as thirty-eight others drawn from miscellaneous manuscripts. Ezra Pound's 1926 collection, entitled Personae after his earlier volume of that name, was his personal choice of all the poems he wished to keep in print other than some translations and his Cantos. Edited by Michael King under the direction of Louis L. Martz, who wrote the introduction. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages, red cloth covers in an unclipped dust jacket with light darkening to edges and spine. INSCRIBED BY SPENDER to literary historian and critic Roger Shattuck: "To Roger/My guide through/ Cambridge and Casablanca/with a great many thanks/Stephen Spender/Cambridge 1955".

Softcover. NY, October House, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 273 pages. Contains among others the following poems: Daedalus; Luctus in Morte Infantis; The Crystal; Venerable all Hills all Valleys; Narcissus; The Leaping Laughers; The Seal Boy; He comes among; I am that face about which fire fell; Summer Idyll; It is the sorrow season; I, mute immutable, cry; Verses from a Nursery Wall etc. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY DELANTY on the title page. Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Clean copy.

NY, Henry Holt & Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching light green boards with dark green cloth spines with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. BOTH VOLUMES SIGNED BY DE LA MARE on front fly leaf. Cover and edges show shelf wear. Volume two with light soil, stain to cover. Name on inside front covers. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 128 pages. John Lehmann, the English author, poet, editor, and publisher, was partner and general manager of The Hogarth Press (1938 to 1946); director of the publishing firm John Lehmann, Ltd. (1945-1952); and editor of the publications New Writing (1936-1939), Penguin New Writing (1940-1950), New Writing and Daylight (1942-1946), New Soundings (1952-1953), and The London Magazine (1954-1961). Clean copy.

Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. Sunning to spine, else near fine in wrappers. Edited by Anne Wright. A volume in the "Poets on Poetry". Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.