Poets Poetry

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. 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. 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, Farrar Rinehart, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Previous owner's bookplate on front cover paste down. Hinges with small tears. Stained cloth and end papers.

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. 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. 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. Fort Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, to fellow poet John Engels. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR opposite title page. Clean, tight copy in protective glassine wrapper.

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.

Hardcover. New York , New Directions, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1214 pages, unread copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edited by Peter Glassgold.

Hardcover. New York, John Lane Company, Limited 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages, with frontispiece portrait of Brooke with tissue guard, introduction by George Edward Woodberry. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and spine edge wear and fray, otherwise, very clean and tight 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.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press Ltd, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Top corner of front end paper has been diagonally cut. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Carcanet Pr, 1st, 2001-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 378 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight 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.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969, many of which are now out of print. A valuable companion to editions of Olson's poetry, the book backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems. Included are Call Me Ishmael, a classic of American literary criticism; the influential essays "Projective Verse" and "Human Universe"; and essays, book reviews, and Olson's notes on his studies. In these pieces one can trace the development of his new science of man, called "muthologos," a radical mix of myth and phenomenology that Olson offered in opposition to the mechanistic discourse and rationalizing policy he associated with America's recent wars in Europe and Asia. Clean copy.

Softcover. Copper Canyon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 417 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to fellow poet John Engels on front end paper. Two dog-eared pages. light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House/Beginner Books, BC Ed., 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, hardcover, color illustrated cloth with bowed cover, color illustrations throughout by Richard Erdoes. Light verse by LeSieg (Dr. Seuss). Stated Book Club Edition opposite title page. Covers show edge wear, soil. Interior clean.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with maroon and gilt title on spine, 608 pages. Clean copy.