American Negro Poetry
Hill & Wang, January 1964. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Poetry-Anthologies
Stoogism Anthology
Poor Souls Press, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 111 pages. A collection of writings by nearly 50 contributors in dedication to the comedy trio. Illustrated in black-and-white. Fericano is the founder of the mock literary movement, 'stoogism.' First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author.....
Stoogism Anthology
Poor Souls Press, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 111 pages. A collection of writings by nearly 50 contributors in dedication to the comedy trio. Illustrated in black-and-white. Fericano is the founder of the mock literary movement, 'stoogism.' First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Small stains to cover.....
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 429 pages. With contributions from Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Linda Hogan, Edward Dorn, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Julia Vinograd, Amiri Baraka and others. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a dust jacket with a touch of edge.....
Cantos al sexto sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing
Wings Press, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 353 pages. A substantial and dense anthology of poems and prose by Latino writers. The project was started by Cecilio García Camarillo and completed by columnists Rodríguez and Gonzales. It includes a broad range of writers like Ricardo Sánchez, Alurista, Juan Felipe Herrera.....
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2016. Trade Paperback. Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America's most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as.....
The Poetry Review, Volume XXXVIII, No. 6 (December 1947)
The Poetry Society, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Paginated 401-526, i-viii. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Light spotting to page edges.
The Poetry Review, Volume XXXIX, No. 2 (April-May 1948)
The Poetry Society, 1948. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Paginated 103-232, i-viii. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Geography of Home: Californias Poetry of Place
Heyday Books, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Later printing. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Ripe with possibilities, with a rich diversity of landscapes and people, California has nurtured poets born and raised on its soil, and has drawn to it established writers from other places. This is an ample and exciting.....
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Miramax, 2003. Trade Paperback. Later printing. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of.....
American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom
The Library of America, 2006. Hardcover. 685 pages. A near fine copy; no dust jacket. No more profound and intimate expression of America's spiritual life can be found than the work of its poets. From Anne Bradstreet to the Beats, from Native American chant and Shaker hymnody to Walt Whitman.....
Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 332 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and.....
Cantos al sexto sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing
Wings Press, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 353 pages. A substantial and dense anthology of poems and prose by Latino writers. The project was started by Cecilio García Camarillo and completed by columnists Rodríguez and Gonzales. It includes a broad range of writers like Ricardo Sánchez, Alurista, Juan Felipe Herrera.....
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs)
Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. CDs present and unopened. Offers brief biographies, critical interpretations, and selected poems by forty-two American, Irish, and English poets from 1892 to 1997, along with recordings of each of the authors reading.....
Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1969. Hardcover. 192 pages. Illustrations by various artists (Dali, de Kooning, Dubuffet, et al.) in color. First edition (second printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Viking Book of Poetry of the English-Speaking World (two volumes)
Viking Press, 1958. Hardcover. Volume One: xlvi, (2), 1-654 pp; Volume Two: lxxiii, (3), 655-1297. Revised, mid-century edition. Very good copies in a very good dust jackets.
Sappho to Valery: Poems in Translation
University of Arkansas Press, 1990. Trade Paperback. 415 pages. Revised and enlarged, the second edition of Sappho to Valéry includes both the originals and translations of ninety-eight poems from nine different languages. Nims offers new and lively interpretations of a number of poems that have been translated and others available.....
Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology
Center for Texas Studies, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 353 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a somewhat soiled and scuffed dust jacket. Former owner's sticker on front pastedown. With holograph letter signed by the editor laid in.
Truth and Lies: An Anthology of Poems
Henry Holt and Co., 2001. Hardcover. Later printing. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Crease to front flap. Here are poems teenagers will treasure, inscribe in diaries, and share with friends for years to come. The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is.--Nadine Gordimer.....
Beat Coast East: An Anthology of Rebellion
Excelsior Press, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 96 pages. Contributions from Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, Diane de Prima, Norman Mailer and others. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covers lightly soiled, spine toned and a small stain to the page block.
The Final Resting Place of the 10,000 Names of the Buddha.
Runcible Spoon, 1970. First Edition. Unknown. [32] pages. One of 200 copies. Poems, with contributions from Jean Rosenbaum, Veryl Rosenbaum, Sam Grolmes, Victoria Salkey and others. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled, yellow wrappers (paperback).
War and the Poet: An Anthology of Poetry Expressing Man's Attitudes to War from Ancient Times to the Present
Devin-Adair Company, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in gray cloth with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Mild edge wear. In very good dust jacket with mild surface soiling, edge and corner wear, chips missing from spine edges, and long.....
Good Poems
Penguin Books, September 2003. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). America's beloved author, humorist, and storyteller offers a selection of meaningful and enjoyable poems Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the.....
Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose. Number 20, Summer 1993
Columbia University Press, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 137 pages. With contributions by Mary Oliver, John McPhee, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson and others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This was Stephen Jay Gould's copy.
Bugle Blast: An Anthology from the Services
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. Review copy with review slip enclosed. First edition (first printing). Review copy. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with glassine wrapper.