Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Tamarack Editions, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR IN BACK. Cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Color linoleum-block prints throughout. Very slight fading of some of lettering on spine. Minor staining on spine. A little wear along edges. Nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Grandville MI, Nada Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Contributors include William Burroughs, Jr., Antler, Anne Waldeman. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 81 pages. A very clean, tight copy. The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husband, father, and poet. Diverse products of the imagination pass through Haxton's generous mind--the mysterious number zero, Milton's "Lycidas," nuclear technology--even as he captures the humor and pathos of the everyday. In these brief, exquisite lyrics, meditations, and short stories in verse, he immerses his reader in the heat of teenage rivalry and friendship, the tender comedy of sex, and the amazements of the natural world.

Hardcover. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with slight odor. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to literary critic and historian Roger Shattuck. 93 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 119 pages. Clean copy.

New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by David Diaz, his 1st book. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue. From family pictures to pinatas, from the "gato "with a meow like a rusty latch to Fourth of July fireworks, the poet celebrates the startling and often overlooked moments that define childhood. Affectionate without being overly sentimental, the collection provides a good introduction to contemporary poetry as well as a fine homage to a Chicano community.

Softcover. Middleton, CT, Wesleyan, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Additional folded broadside laid-in, also SIGNED.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 355 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SIMIC on the half title page. Also a handwritten postcard from Simic laid in as well as two related newspaper clippings about the book.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Designed and illustrated (in color) by Ivan Chermayeff. Dust jacket shows some chipping and wear. Hardbound.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 259 pages. Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rozewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, Rozewicz continues to be a prolific writer and an acerbic commentator on his life and times. This collection combines his latest three volumes: professor's knife, gray zone, and exit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master. Clean copy.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White buckam spine and bevelled card board covers, gilt decorated spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, With a new Preface by the Author. Hardcover, numbered and signed issue, limited to 300 numbered hardcover copies, SIGNED BY PAUL BOWLES [# 64]. A fine copy in fine, unprinted acetate dust jacket. Octavo, cloth spine, paper-covered boards, 73 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. 2-color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Ex-lib, but clean except for rear end paper residue.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. INSCRIBED BY DENNIS LEE ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrations in full color and black & white by Frank Newfeld. Dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, tight copy. A collection of thirty nonsense poems including the tale of Nicholas Knock and his friendship with a silver honkabeest.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Yellow Moon Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, First Printing. No limitation stated. A very good copy in tan printed wrappers, the paperbound trade issue. Unpaginated. Translations in English, with Illustrations by Rita Shumaker, and an introductory statement "Why Rumi Didn't Sign His Poems" by Barks. INSCRIBED BY ROBERT BLY with a sketch on the front fly leaf.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages. Name on front fly leaf, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Inc, 2nd pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 86 pages. SIGNED BY SIMIC on the title page. Stated First Edition with letter line starting with B. A very nice copy of this book of poems from the acclaimed author who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Softcover. Seattle, Wave Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 45 pages. Limited to 400 copies. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 78 pages. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn, unclipped with 4.50 price.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a brigh dust jacket with light edgewear. SIGNED BY KHERDIAN on front end paper.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 127 pages. Color, black and white illustrations by Leslie Brooke. Dust jacket price-clipped. Clean.

Hardcover. Rochester NY, BOA Editions, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 251 pages. A later anthology of poems from this prolific writer. A fine copy in black cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SNODGRASS on the title page.

Softcover. Baylor University Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages. The English poet U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) liked to call herself "a middle-aged drop-out," having abandoned a successful teaching career to focus on her poetry, even concealing her Oxford degree so she could find paid work--at Hoover, then as a hospital receptionist. This gave her a chance to study people, which is what her wonderful poems do best. Fanthorpe's verse is instinctively English, often very moving, frequently funny, invariably rooted in her faith. Fanthorpe and her partner, Rosie Bailey, became Quakers in the 1980s. These poems touch on spiritual matters, dramatize Bible stories, and are underpinned by a profound moral sense. Fanthorpe does not judge; rather, she watches, records, and allows her words to do their work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket. Otherwise, a tight clean copy.