Poets Poetry

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Ally Press, 3rd printing, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Poems printed in Russian (Cyrillic) and English. An English language translation of twenty poems by Anna Akhmatova by the noted poet Jane Kenyon.

Softcover. Madison WI, Seventies Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 74 pages. A collection of poetry by Rolf Jacobsen, a Norwegian poet, considered to be one of the first modernist writers in Norway. Poems in English and Norwegian. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Madison, MN, The Seventies Press, 1st pbk, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 81 pages. Translated. by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly.Edited by Lewis Hyde. Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mild fade to edges of dust jacket.

Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. a reprint of Wright's early book considered the most private of his work. The author identified he and his wife Annie as the citizens in the title. Nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, B.W. Huebsch, Revised Ed., 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a spine labe.l William Ellery Leonard (1876-1944) was an American poet, playwright, translator and literary scholar. Over his career, Leonard wrote numerous volumes of poetry, this being his most well-known work. It is a cycle of 250 sonnets about his tragic first marriage, which ended with his wife's suicide. Revised from the 1922 privately printed edition with "four scattered verbal changes and . four new stanzas in Part III." Spine label rubbed. Clean copy.

Softcover. Concord NH, William B. Ewert, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original sewn gray wrappers. Title page wood engraving by Gillian Tyler. Designed by Michael McCurdy. Unpaginated. Edition of 225 copies, of which 175 were hand-sewn into paper wrappers. Signed by Levertov and Tyler at colophon. Contains two poems by Black Mountain lyricist Levertov, 'Gathered at the River,' and 'The Cry.' Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Margaret K. McElderry, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by John O'Brien. A collection of limericks about Uncle Switch, an eccentric who does everything topsy-turvy. Clean copy.

Softcover. Saint Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages. Gallagher was born in 1943 in Washington state, and studied at the University of Washington under Theodore Roethke. She later married the poet and writer Raymond Carver.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century. Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smiths searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Howard's third collection of poems. Clean copy.

Softcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 4th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with gilt stamping to front and back covers remains bright. Mild fading to red spine. Innovative Japanese binding and nicely designed two-color printing throughout. Book design and typography by Keiko Chiba. 59 pages. Paul Reps (1895 - 1990) was America's first haiku poet, over 20 years earlier than anyone else. His influential 1957 book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, introduced a generation of readers to Zen Buddhism. His work has steadily gained in popularity over the years. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 83 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Previous owners name and address on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges, darkening to paper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. El Paso TX, Cinco Puntos Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. One evening, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jose Galvez heard Luis Alberto Urrea read "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Be in a Poem" with its chant-like repetitions and its evocation of Chicano manhood. As Luis read each line, an image clicked in Jose's memory, and he knew that he had already taken that photograph. The result of that experience is this remarkable book.A unique collaboration of two acclaimed artists, Vatos is a tribute to Latino men who are too often forgotten, ignored and misrepresented by the larger culture-children playing in the streets, migrant workers toiling for a better life, homeboys in the barrio, young men with their girlfriends and their mothers, blue collar workers, activists on the streets, sons, uncles, fathers, and grandfathers. Vatos recognizes their joys, their sorrows, their tenderness and their strength. Through Galvez' photographs and Urrea's words, they will not be forgotten. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., reprint, 1872, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth with gilt stamping, 107 pages. Text edges stained red, title page in red and black. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page. Bright, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Laurence J. Gomme, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue paper over boards with cream cloth spine. 91 pages, mild darkening to cover edges, otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 heavy paper sheets plus cover, bound together with blue cord in punched holes at top. One and two color illustrations by Shepard, verse for every month by Milne. Some light pin-size spotting to corner of cover, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, 262 pages. A critical introduction to major English poetry of the nineteenth century with an analysis of the changes in subject matter form, tone, and technique resulting from romantic influences. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's cloth backed boards and issued without a jacket. 260 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Rome, privately printed, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, limited to 150 copies; octavo, 142 pages; no dust jacket; beautiful gilt blind-stamped front cover decoration on white linen, beveled boards which are soiled around the perimeter; very tight binding. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and dated 1912. A self-published collection of poetry, 142 pages printed on one side of sheets.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 5th pr., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, b&w illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tear.

Softcover. Mexico , Flor Ruiz, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, introduction by Jay Parini. Softcover with dust jacket, uncut pages. Limited to 1000 copies.