poetry poets

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 2nd pr., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 53 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

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..

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 242 pages. The Arab poet's story, from her childhood in Nablus, on the West Bank of the Jordan, between the world wars to the occupation by the Israelis in 1967. A rare glimpse of Arab culture from a woman's perspective. Includes a selection of her poetry. Clean copy.

Softcover. Galway, The Friends of Thoor Ballylee, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8 page booklet printed at The Brewhouse Press for The Friends of Thoor Ballylee in a limited numbered edition of 500 copies. This is copy #66. Produced by Rigby Graham and Trevor Hickman. Green wrap-around outer card covers with gilt illustration on front cover. Thread bound. Two b/w drawings (including frontispiece) and one color illustration by Rigby Graham. Laid in is a note card signed by curator Frances MacNally. Clean copy.

Softcover. Portland OR, Tin House Books, reprint, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Deadpan, epic, and searingly charismatic, A Sand Book chronicles climate change and climate grief, gun violence and bystanderism, state violence and complicity, mourning and ecstasy, sex and love, and the transcendent shock of prophecy, tracking new dimensions of consciousness for our strange and desperate times. Fading to front wrapper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 163 pages. Includes selected poems from all his previous books and many new ones. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Very faint sun-fade to front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. The mysterious, seductive essence of the night has long entranced the imagination of artists and writers, and now it is the focus of a unique book that pairs evocative black-and-white photography with classic and contemporary poetry. Lynn Saville's photographs, shot after dark in and around New York and at other urban and rural sites in the United States, Portugal, Greece, and India, reveal unusual aspects of familiar cities and monuments as well as the dusky allure of fringe areas such as Manhattan's industrial district and desolate waterfronts. Rich with light and shadow, the photographs suggest the suspenseful, provocative quality of film noir. Accompanying the photographs are 35 poems and poetic excerpts about the night, beginning with Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night," which inspired the book's title and mood. Selected here are works by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Charles Simic, and Octavio Paz, among other award-winning poets, and citations from ancient verse such as the Rig Veda and The Epic of Gilgamesh. 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. 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, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page, otherwise clean

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 82 pages. Stafford's fourth collection of poems. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Kylix Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 75 pages. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STRAND on the title page. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 594 pages. A landmark in postwar American literary criticism, forty-one extended essays on contemporary poets, including Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Denise Levertov, and James Merrill. Blending biography, textual analysis, and philosophical reflection, it defined a generation's poetic discourse. The book stands as both a map of mid-century American verse and a statement of Howard's erudite critical voice. Light shelfwear, fraying to top, bottom of dust jacket spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 259 pages. When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it.

Softcover. Providence RI, Burning Deck, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages. Printed wrappers. Cover by Keith Waldrop. Designed and printed by Rosmarie Waldrop. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Rome, Grafica Internazionale, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, orange cloth covers stamped in brown and white. ITALIAN TEXT. Introduction by Elio Mercuri. Poetic texts by Langston Hughes, Owen Dodson, Sterling A. Brown, James Weldon Johnson. With 32 color plates and 60 black and white illustrations. 8vo, 100 pages, Aligi Sassu created all the plates reproduced here in 1969 for the scenic cantata ''Anch'io sono l'America'' by Mario Nascimbene, inspired by the texts of contemporary black poets. The work is; had its world premiere on 20 June 1969 at the Teatro Sociale in Lecco, interpreted by Helenita Olivares and Therman Bailey. Covers with fading, light soil. Interior clean.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 101 pages. Minor shelf-wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with paper boards multicolored in vertical stripe patterns, 64 pages. In her lifetime, Wylie garnered notoriety for her unconventional private life and acclaim for her poems and novels. The collection is most renowned for the sonnet sequence "One Person," a deeply moving and technically masterful exploration of love, devotion, and the human spirit.She was considered one of the most distinguished American poets of the 1920s. Though her literary career lasted only eight years, she was recognized as an extremely adept, accomplished author. Wylie's poetry is marked by a lively inventiveness, a subtle treatment of emotion, and a detached sensibility that Louis Untermeyer has described as "a passion frozen at its source." Her last book, published after her untimely death 1n 1928. Covers with mild soil, edgewear.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 351 pages. Green cloth with embossed gilt lettering on spine. With an Introduction by Peter Green and chapters including: The Meaning of Influence / Mr Eliot and the French Symbolist Poets / The Perspective of History / The Perspective of Language / The Perspective of Myth / etc. Short inscription on front fly leaf, darkening to dj, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A bright, clean copy in flax colored buckram, golden yellow enpapers, in a tan dust wrapper printed in dark blue, not price-clipped. This volume presents, for the first time in collected form, all the poems Charles Olson authorized for publication in his lifetime, from 1946 until his death in January, 1970, apart from the Maximus Poems sequence.