Hardcover. Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, gray cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book encourages readers to see history and poetry as complimentary literary forms. Illuminates the various ways in which contemporary poets redeem a vision of personal, aesthetic, and social relevancy from the shadow of traditionally narrated history. Contains author's inscription to the previous owner on one of the front end pages. His signature is also present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34544
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Privately Printed, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages, hardcover. Green paper boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages with deckled edges. The first front end page has some wear along the top edge, likely from an improperly removed sticker. Binding is solid. Contains a frontispiece portrait. This is a privately printed collection of poems by Flora Louise Hunn. Author's inscription to the previous owner on the front end page reads: "For Nancy and Irving Tier, affectionately, Flora Louise Hunn July, 1936." Clean copy. Record # 34258
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Privately Printed, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages, hardcover. Green paper boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages with deckled edges. Binding is solid. Contains a frontispiece portrait. This is a privately printed collection of poems by Flora Louise Hunn. Author's inscription to the previous owner on the front end page reads: "For Mary and Arthur with sincere friendship, Flora." Clean copy. Record # 34259
Softcover. NY, New Directions, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a collection of the writings of Gu Cheng, based on the poet's own personal selections from his work. Also incorporated are essays, letters, an interview, and excerpts from Gu Cheng's novel Ying'er. This copy has been inscribed to the previous owner by the translator on the title page. Contains additional related ephemera laid-in, with more handwritten notes by the translator. Clean copy. Record # 34272
Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, gray cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this book, Hart discusses Heaney's poetry, his creative and personal situations, and his assimilation of contemporary literary theory. Clean copy. Record # 34275
Hardcover. NY, G. K. Hall & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Edythe Mae Gordon appeared briefly as a poet and short story writer in the twenties and thirties and was particularly active, through her connection to the Saturday Evening Quill Club, in black intellectual and cultural life in the Boston of the late twenties. This volume includes not only three short stories and thirteen poems, the bulk of which were originally published in the Saturday Evening Quill, but also the first publication of Gordon's Boston University M.A. thesis, "The Status of the Negro Woman in the United States from 1619-1865." Clean copy. Record # 34491
Softcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1996-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 465101
Softcover. Lewiston, NY, Mellen Poetry Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages, soft cover. White paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Author's inscription reads: "For Brett, my Bright Lady, who changed my life. R. A. Shoaf, January 14, 1992." This is a collection featuring poems written between 1969 and 1991. Clean copy. Record # 34268
Softcover. Oakland, CA, Timeless, Infinite Light, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography on the last few pages. This collection of poetry is a meditation on self care, sexuality, and identity through a disembodied subject in the water, the home, and in the streets. It is a collection of tender sincerity. Brittany Billmeyer-Finn is a queer poet and playwright living in Northampton, MA, where she is an aspiring social worker in the Smith MSW program. Clean copy. Record # 34562
Softcover. N/A, Privately Published, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Burgundy paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Plastic binding is solid. Contains 5 original poems with laid-in photographs throughout. Each photo accompanies a poem. This is a self-published poetry book with a very limited print run. Clean copy. Record # 34431
Softcover. US, New York Poets Series, 1st, 2004-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 465664
Softcover. US, BOA Editions Ltd., 1st, 2009-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 465060
Hardcover. Hanover, N. H., University Press of New England, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, review slips laid in, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800744
Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has a few open tears. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a quintessential discourse aimed at unscrambling multitudes of signals received in the language of poetry. A necessary guidebook. Light pencil underlining is present on pages 32-38, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33728
Softcover. Milwaukee, WI, Membrane Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, soft cover. Tan paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Perfect-bound binding is solid. Contains the author's line-art illustrations throughout. This is a small-format poetry book, about 5 inches square. It was released in 1981 as part of a short print run. These poems deal with the paradox of confinement, being written while the author was teaching a writing course at a state prison. Clean copy. Record # 34556
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 6th pr., 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 770 pages, hardcover. Cloth covers are stained and worn, with one small spot of abrasive wear. Spine is faded but still legible. Interior pages have some light wear, particularly along the top edge. The front hinge is cracked, but the binding is still solid. This compilation brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote, before they were posthumously edited. Clean copy. Record # 33762
Hardcover. Westminster, MD, The Newman Press, Reprints, 1949-1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 486 pages volume 1, 470 pages volume 2, 470 pages volume 3, all hardcovers without dust jackets. Cloth covers are generally in good condition, although volume 1 has light discoloration and volume 3 has one minor stain on the rear cover. Interior pages are all clean and bright. The binding of volume 1 is slightly loose due to a crack at the top of the spine, but it is still contiguous. The bindings of the other 2 volumes are solid. This is a mismatched set, with volume 1 being a 1952 reprint, and volumes 2 & 3 being 1949 reprints. These books present a monumental collection of mystical poetry and prose commentaries, intended to serve as a spiritual roadmap detailing the soul's journey from worldly attachments to the ultimate goal of transforming union with God through divine love. Due to the size and weight of the package, this 3-volume set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34548
Softcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, which Marjorie Perloff addresses in these essays. Clean copy. Record # 34249
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages, hardcover. Covers have light edge wear and rubbing. Cream colored leather stamped with elaborate botanical gilt design has been half-bound to the spine over decorated paper cover boards. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This small-format book presents several of William Cullen Bryant's earlier poems, and also contains a brief biographical sketch. Previous owner's signature is present in black pen on a front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34334
Softcover. Fremont, MI, The Sumac Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This poetry collection is characterized by its directness and honesty, often using colloquial language and unexpected turns of phrase. This scarcely available book is 1 of only 1,000 soft cover 1st editions printed. Clean copy. Record # 34535
Softcover. New York , Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good. Record # 408006
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2022, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages, hardcover. Dust jackets are bent at the top and bottom edges. Red cloth cover boards are slightly warped, but otherwise are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this book, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew. Clean copy. Record # 34253
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Apollo Press, 1st, 1777, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages, hardcover. Covers are significantly worn, and hinges are cracked. Interior pages are mostly clean and bright, with foxing present on the end pages. Binding is solid. This is a small format book, only 3-4 inches tall. Contains engraved portraits frontispiece. This book is a collection of poems by the English dramatist John Gay. Clean copy. Record # 33894
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