poetry poets

Softcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 166 pages. INSCRIBED BY ROBERTS on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Clean. bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 426 pages. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, "Felstiner translates . . . brilliantly." Clean copy.

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collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln."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.

Hardcover. Lewisburg/London, Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses,, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages. "Ruben Dario" is the pseudonym of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento. He was born in Metapa, Nicaragua (today known as Ciudad Dario) in January 18, 1867. Dual Spanish/English text. Clean, bright copy. Dario is possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.

Hardcover. London, The Falcon Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream cloth stamped in maroon, Illustrated with six full page plates: portrait frontis, 2 drawings by Gregorio Prieto and 3 plates by Baudelaire, including 2 self portraits. Illustrated endpapers, with line drawings by Prieto. 131 pages, translated by Geoffrey Wagner; introduction by Enid Starkie. Mild soil, shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 220 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Pawlet, VT, Priscilla Howes Grant, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 27 pages, hardcover. #37 of 126 copies; distributed to friends of the poet. Nickerson was a young poet who died in a motorcycle accident in 1972. Unmarked. Clean and bright; a tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a chipped, tape repaired dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 266 pages. INSCRIBED BY SIPE on the front fly leaf to fellow professor Roger Mitchell. English majors are used to being told that Shakespeare frequently broke the rules of iambic pentameter, and that as he matured artistically, his usage became bolder and freer. Well, it isn't true. Shakespeare's iambics turn out to be extremely orthodox (which just makes all the more impressive the variations he was able to create within the rules). In 1968 Dorothy Sipe went to the remarkable labor of demonstrating this objectively through a painstaking analysis of over 13,000 lines of verse. She also supplied information I've never found anywhere else on the prosodic rules taught by poets to poets in Shakespeare's day. All this said, including a five star rating for the perfect achievement of its goal, the book is definitely not for everyone interested in Shakespeare's verse and methods. It is devoted to proving a highly specific case by means of many, many examples that non-specialists are likely to find tedious. But if you are deeply interested in some subjects -- Shakespeare's iambics, his coinages, and the history of English iambic technique -- it is well worth your time. Dust jacket tanned, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly tanned, unclipped dust jacket. 55 poems by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, 88 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Galleon Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in gilt, 317 pages. Collects three longer poems from both Pushkin and Lermontov, as translated to English and with a forward by Jacob Krup. With twelve interpretive illustrations by Herbert Fouts. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mitchell Kennerley, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt title on spine, 85 pages. Previous owner's name on inside cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 4th pr., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an acetate dust jacket. Bright clean copy. 6 x 9, 153 pages, b/w author photo, black endpapers.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover, 96 pages, poems by Hilda Dolittle, Amy Lowell, Richard Aldington, D.H. Lawrence. Card covers with green wrapper that has water stain, light edgewear. Internally very good with no traces of stain.

Hardcover. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in the publisher's original paper covered boards. Title paste-down on front and back covers. Beautiful illustration in green on title page. This collection of 50 sonnets and poems was written by American poet, writer and philanthropist Helen Hay. The collection includes poems such as 'The Days', 'Throne and Altar' and 'In the Mist'. Helen Julia Hay Whitney (March 11, 1875 - September 24, 1944) was an American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist. She was a member by marriage of the Whitney family of New York. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st thus, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, illustrated with b&w engraved plates by various artists. Cloth covers with color illustration on front and back. Previous owner's inscription on first blank page. All edges gilt. Includes

Softcover. San Francisco, Sixteen Rivers Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 brown calf over marbled boards. NOT Holiday Edition or Household Edition. Whittier is the only editor, no mention of Lucy Larcom. Decorated edges Gilt lettering on spine lightly faded. Four page Preface by Whittier dated September 1875, copyright page states 1875. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 266 pages. In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry, Vendler explains its power; it is, she says, more often the voice of the soul than the socially marked self, speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse. 'Souls Says,' the title of a poem by Jorie Graham, is thus the name of this collection. In essays on Seamus Heaney, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, and others, Vendler makes difficult poetry accessible and explores the force and beauty of contemporary lyric verse. Clean copy.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. INSCRIBED BY HULL on the title page. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 123 pages. The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with "the growth of a poet's mind.'" There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems, this was Heaney's sixth major collection and many believe it ranks among his best. Previous owner's name, date on the 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.