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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses
Black Sparrow Press. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Time Is a Mother
Penguin Press, April 2022. Hardcover. A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong Take your time with these poems, and return to them often." --The Washington Post How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The.....
The Dead and the Living
Knopf, February 1984. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. Larry Lewis say, "The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something.....
If All the World and Love Were Young
Penguin, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Obit
Copper Canyon Press, 2020. Trade Paperback. 113 pages. Later printing. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020 Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 NPR's Best Books of 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist Frank Sanchez Book Award After her mother.....
Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
Copper Canyon Press, September 2005. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). "The heart of Orr's poetry, now as ever, is the enigmatic image . . . mystical, carnal, reflective, wry."--San Francisco Review This book-length sequence of ecstatic, visionary lyrics recalls Rumi in its search for the beloved.....
Dearly: New Poems
Ecco, November 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and.....
Unpopulist Manifesto
Golden Mountain Press, 1975. Broadside. 12 by 16 inches. In 1975, Wolberg was appointed to run City Lights Bookstore after long-time manager, Shig Murao, had a stroke. Wolberg worked to get the financing of the store, which flirted with bankruptcy, in order, bumping heads with many of the store regulars.....
On Cats
Ecco, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski's classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing as he explores and honors the majestic creatures and.....
A Pilgrim's Thoughts
The Mitre Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 70 pages. Poems. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket that is chipped and snagged on the rear panel, else very good. Inscribed by the author: 'For Rod McKuen, Humanitarian, poet, and entertainer extraordinar [sic]. With warm greetings.....
Selected Poems (Northwestern World Classics)
Northwestern University Press, June 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist's voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement.....
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Penguin Books, November 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's Books That Help Me Through for Oprah's Book Club "No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive.....
Collected Poems (Norton Library)
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry--ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.
Tree Within
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems.....
Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
University of Chicago Press, July 1981. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer.....
The Collected Poems
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite.....
The Mooring Of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry
Ecco, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Most critics would agree that John Ashbery is one of 20th-century American poetry's finest voices. Perhaps his most admired book is Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, a culmination of themes, styles, and forms with which the poet experimented over the.....
The Essential Byron (Essential Poets Series)
Galahad Books, January 1992. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate. Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work.....
The Pupil
Knopf, October 2001. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Hailed by Peter Davison in the "Boston Sunday Globe" as a poet who "engages the underground stream of our lives at depths that only two or three living poets can match," W. S. Merwin now gives.....
In the Clearing
Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1962. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
City Lights Books, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The landmark, original publication of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL & Other Poems! HOWL & Other Poems, the prophetic book that launched the Beat Generation, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books in 1956. Considered the single most.....
Hughes: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Everyman's Library, March 1999. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader.....
Poems of New York (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Everyman's Library, August 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to.....