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London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1970. 312 pp. Price-clipped dj w/ 3-inch tear and other wear at top. Sticker ghosts on FEP of otherwise fine volume. Medieval Authors Series. Three photographic plates of illustrations from manuscripts in the British Museum. Contents: General Preface; Author's Note; John Lydgate: The Critical Approach; The Monastic Background; Chaucer and Literary Background; The Courtly Poems; Troy and Thebes; Laureate Lydgate; Fables and Didactic Poems; The Fall of Princes; Lydgate's Religious Poetry; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1999. 72 pp. A crease in the rear flap, flaps have a tendency to curl perhaps related to materials. Southern Messenger Poetry Series. 'It's why birds sing. For hours / arranged on branches / touching panes, / none listening / to another. Nobody's listening / to anybody else. // Out on a sunny wire / one mockingbird / says things severe, / makes lists, gets it all / off his chest.'--from ''Why Angels Choir.'' Taylor is the author of Wilderness of Ladies (1960); Welcome Eumenides (1972); New and Selected Poems (1983); Days Going, Days Coming Back (1992).. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1964. 215 pp. Book with corner bump, sticker ghosts. DJ with rubbing, chipping, tears, but generally complete. 'In the mid-nineteenth century, whan Frederic Mistral gathered round him at Avignon the brilliant group that formed the Felibrige with a view to stimulating interest in the Provencal language, he had little idea of the scope of the movement that then begann. The seven 'gaid felibres provencaux; brought about a revival of letters that was to go hand and hand with the rehabilitation of the old language and make the people of the south of France conscious of their race and heritage. As the principal poet of the group, Mistral was to produce his epic-romance Mireio, a story of frustrated lave in shich Moeric grandeur and the charm and simplicity of Theocritus are situated in the fair land of the valley of the Rhone. In his verse the pagan, sensual world of romance is colored with a delicate Christian mysticism and filled out with the loftier and more… Leer más

St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Graywolf Press, 2004. 72 pp.Winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. 'The extraordinary second collection of Vijay Seshadri, whose poems resound with ''The high-frequency channels of consciousness and the jazz of spoken language.'' ' ' 'Seshadri is the author of Wild Kingdom. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and in Best American Poetry. He was born in India and currently lives in Brooklyn.' 'Older than the rocks is she / across whom their shadows float. / A million rivers navigate / the necklace at her throat.'. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1985. 460 pp. Almost no wear to book and dj. and no significant faults. P.O. signature (copy editor and professor). || Reviews from Vogue and The New Yorker and Knopf's Pulitzer announcement, presumably from the New York Times, included. ||'By temperment she was not a euphoric character and in her life she had much to endure. What, aside from their technical excellence, is most impressive about her poems is the unflinching courage with which she faced her problems, her determination never to surrender to self-pity, but to wrest beauty and joy out of dark places . . . It was a privilege to have known her.'--Auden. ||'The poetry is there, too, and Frank's sensitive exegesis should prove a joy to admirers of Bogan's work. . . . But there is something more. Louise Bogan: A Portrait is a moving and intelligent tribute--it should chasten those of us whose heroes have gone down in flames rather than clinging, unsullied, to standards.--Tracy Young. ||Over thirty… Leer más

Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1961. Soiling to wraps with bumping to extremities, PO sig on half title. Inside clean. "Violent in its blood, the dark book / Hangs like a tree of night upon the sky. / It batters history, that genesis, / Word that whelped a world up, / While priest and king and all / Raged at the syntax they were swaddled by."-- from "The Book". Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Top edges lightly soiled, otherwise clean with no markings. Discusses and quotes A. Alvarez, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Robert Creely, Donald Davie, Denis Devlin, James Dickey, Robert Duncan, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Ramon Guthrie, Donald Hall, Ted Hughes, Randall Jarrell, LeRoi Jones, Patrick Kavenagh, Thomas Kinsella, Phillip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Robert Lowell, George MacBeth, Vladimir Mayakovski, Christopher Middleton, John Montague, Richard Murphy, Howard Nemerov, Charles Olson, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Peter Redgrove, Theodore Toethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Anna Sexton, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Wallace Stevens, Charles Tomlinson, Michael Weaver, William Carlos Williams, James Wright, and W. B. Yeats among others. . Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: New York Quarterly, 1970. 104 pp. Tiny bumps to fore edge corners, a little rubbing on white rear wrap. Contents: Allen Ginsberg-Manhattan Thirties Flash; Louis Ginsberg-Our Ride Back; RobertOh Faber-Mercator's Projection; Stephen Dunn-The Helper; Edmund Pennant-Whereas with a Rose; Susan Wecker-Recalling My Grandmother; Helena Moynihan-From the Shoemaker; Explaining; Leo Connellan-Imagine!; Robert Lax-More Suns; Laura Benet-Ah, Icarus; Nikki Giovanni-The Big Bad Black Buffalo; Virginia Bell-The Visit; Michael Harlow-Poem; William Stafford-When I Woke Up; Tracks; Rose Drachler-Longing; Jill Hoffman-After the Reading; Brian Swann-Spring; Anecdote from Dr. Kemp's Brief Treatise of the Nature, Causes, Signs, Preservation from, and Cure of the Plague; Donald Lawder-Color Story; John Hall Wheelock-Dialgue on the Tragic Flux Night; Robert Dugan-It Was Sitting on the Beach; There Was No Where to Go; Ron Padgett-Cut Shadows; Manu Sassoonian-We; John Tagiabue-The Suicide of Every Man; John… Leer más

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1970. 141 pp. Wraps some discoloring, crease at fold on cover. Light coffee stain on edge affecting a few pages, but not text. Printed on Park Avenue Ivory paper by the Capital City Press, Montpelier, Vermont. Cover: Seriagraph by Kenjiro Sasaka entitled ''Planet.'' Contents: Craft Interview: Stanley Kunitz. Photographs of poets by Thomas Victor: Padgett, Zukofsky, Swenson, Thomas, Rothenberg and Garrigue. Siv Cedering Fox--Eclipse; Herbert Krohn--Three Viet Nam Songs; Janet Brof--I'll Miss; Norman Stock--From the Grass to the Sea; Robin Henry--Elegies; Louis Ginsberg--The Bowery; Elizabeth Marraffino--Pisces Twilight; C. Staudacher--A Place of Bones; Richard Kostelanetz--Nixon/Noxin; Elisavietta Ritchie--Terra Irredenta; Robert Burdette Sweet--Margaret; Barry Seiler--The Legendary Bath; John Taylor--Snail Poem; Robert Herz--Girl Sitting; Frederich Mellberg--Poem to the Sisters; Larry Rubin--February Thaw; Theodore Hall--The… Leer más

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1977. 116 pp. Bumps to corners, darkening of wraps, light damp stain affecting pages, as seen in photo. Printed on Olde Style by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor. Two photos of May Swenson by Layle Silbert. Craft Inteview with May Swenson; Helen Adam--Dog Star Run; Allen Planz-Muggings; Kenneth Pitchford--Dance of the Shy Faun; Jackson Mac Low--83rd Ode for Iris; Charles Bukowski--Who in Hell is Tom Jones?; A. R. Ammons--Having To Do With Birth; Constance Carrier--Tituba / Salem 1692; Leo Connellan--Ode to Karl Shapiro; William De Voti--August Before Forty; Eli Siegel-Questions; Peter Viereck--Dialogue: God's Son and Alan; Truth Gibber; Judson Jerome--An Apostate Yogi; June Jordan--Poem: After Reading; Ruth Herschberger--Head Sinner; Louis Ginsberg--Remarks from my Desk; Stephen Stepanchev-Gorilla; Erica Jong--Becoming a Nun; Harold Witt-Godiva; William Mundell--Unwritten Poem; John Pauker--Three Versions; Donald Lev--The Seeker; Lee… Leer más

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1976. 115 pp. Bumps to corners, darkening of wraps. Printed on Park Avenue Ivory paper by the Capital City Press, Montpelier, Vermont. Full-page photo of Snodgrass by Layle Silbert. Contents: Craft Interview with W. D. Snodgrass; William Meredith. Illustrated Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1975. 115 pp. Bumps to corners, darkening of wraps. Printed on Park Avenue Ivory paper by the Capital City Press, Montpelier, Vermont. Full-page photos of Wakowski and others by Layle Silbert. Contents: Craft Interview with Diane Wakoski; John Hall Wheelock--Address to Existence; Josephine Jacobsen--Fountain of Arethusa; William Meredith--Squire Hazard Walks; Kay Boyle--Poem for Students of Greece; Richard Hugo--Relief ; A. R. Ammons--Imperialist; Erica Jong--Sunjuice; David Galler--Full Circle; James Lewisohn--For My Wife; Jackson MacLow--Three Odes to Iris; Marc Tretin--Case Number 876411; Eli Siegel--Other Poems; Anne Marx--In Meiner Kammer; Joan Shapiro--Ripeness; Jesse Stuart--Under the August Wind; John Marberry--Elegy for Jean Garrigue; Charles Bukowski--I Have Taken the Place; Diana Chang--An Appearance of Being Chinese; Dorsha Hayes--Some Midnight; Diane Levenberg--The Crippler; Tony Towle--From Góngora; Norman Rosten--The Split… Leer más

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1971. 114 pp. Some creases, darkening of wraps. Printed on Park Avenue Ivory paper by the Capital City Press, Montpelier, Vermont. Cover by Willard Bond. Contents: Photographs of poets by Thomas Victor: Snyder, Katagiri, Tanikawa, Kizer, Levine, and Van Duyn. Charles Bukowski--The Dogs Bark Knives; Stephen Dunn--What; Janet Brof--Poem; Murat Nemet-Nejat--She Was Moon Faced; Rochelle Ratner--The Potato; Ruth Herschberger--Poem; William Sayres--Politeness Gets You Nowhere; Arthur Oberg--Flowering; Irving Benig--Dear God in Heaven; Dorothy Dalton--The Stone Guilts; Fred E. Steinway--Simon-Peter; Laurence Wieder--Song; Marilyn Zuckerman--Chazals; Philip Dacey--Better Home & Gardens; Richard Hugo--Mongomery Hollow; Charles Bukowski--Have You Ever Kissed a Panther?; --The Good Life at O'Hare Airport; David Ignatow--Separate Windows; Jean Garrigue--Portrait of Four; Laura Benet--March of the Prisoners; Jane Mayhall--The Young Man; Tanikawa… Leer más

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1978. 96 pp. Bumps to corners, darkening of wraps, light damp stain affecting pages. Printed on Olde Style by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor.Craft Interview with Robert Penn Warren; Peter Viersch--Coda; May Sarton--Two Songs; Stephen Stepanchev--Sometimes; Russell Edson--The Abuse Dinners; Harry Smith--Landscape in Grays; Leo Connellan--Helpless, We Go; Naomi Replansky. Illustrated Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1978. 116 pp. Bumps to corners, darkening of wraps, light damp stain affecting pages, as seen in photo. Printed on Olde Style by Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor. Photographs of Richard Eberhart by William Packard. Full-page photo of Richard Eberhart by Layle Silbert. Craft Interview with Richard Eberhart; Vignettes; Charles Bukowski--Hello Wm. Packard; Love; Leo Connellan--Lament for the Jews at Munich; Eli Siegel--Hymn to Unlikeness, Using Waller; Jess Stuart--My Health Is Better in November; Jackson Mac Low--93rd Ode to Iris; 114th Ode to Iris; William Mundell--Talk with Will Tobey; Allen Planz--The Long Island Expressway; Helen Adam--Silver and Gold; A. R. Ammons--Sight Unseen; Judson Jerome--The Pervert; Donald Lev--The Microcosm; Erica Jong--Self-Portrait; Ronald Hobbs--When All the Emblems; Ruth Herschberger--Would You Rather Have a Rabbit; Stephen Stepanchev--Dancing; Sam Toperoff--Eight, Nine, Ten; Sister Pam Smith--Salmo #2; Jane Snyder--You… Leer más

New York: Noonday Press, 1958. 183 pp. Hardly a sign of wear or use. A small 'x' on the half title. Collectible. Includes William Earle--Notes on the Death of Culture; John Moffitt--The Apple; Louis Townsend Nicholl--Tempo; Isaac Bashevis Singer--A Tale of Two Liars; Helen Neville--Evenings at Carquethuit; Karl Jaspers--The Individual and the Collectivity; Robert Cassell--The Bird; Ernst Juenger, Three Pieces--The Hippopotamus, Frutti di Mare, The Color Red; Harold Kaplan--The Origin of Anger; May Swenson--The Crossing; Nathalie Sarraute--The Age of Suspicion; Irene Orgel--Alcyone's Song; Ursele Molinaro--The Rat; Arthur Gregor--Schwanengesang; George Reavey--A Note on Boris Pasternak; Boris Pasternak--The Last Summer.. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Knopf, 1991. 64 pp. dj light crinkling at edges, tanning to edges of flaps, price sticker shadow in pastedown. Otherwise fine. 'When the Queen of Darkness heard his voice, / That mortal stranger, saw him lift the lyre / And watched the dull throng of dead rejoice / To hear him tell of earth and earth's desire, / Of pain, of longing, / she was not amused.'--from Noch Einmal, an Orpheus. [Once again, to Orpheus]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967. 51 pp. Some rubbing and small tears to price-clipped dj. 'The themes of the book range from Adam and Eve to ''Typists in the Pheonix Building'', from Hafiz to Shiraz to Shaw Neilson, to the city dawn to the legend of a dark-skinned Endymion of New Guinea; yet in spite of its diversity there is an underlying unity which is aptly summarized in the title, for almost all the poems are concerned, one way or another, with ''the other half''. It is a search for the reconcilement of seeming opposites, for singleness amongst the apparent duality of the universe, which is expressed at its deepest in poems as ''Prayer'', ''Naked Girl and Mirror'', and the title poem in which the apparently divided elements in the psyche ''meet at last . . . and turn into one truth in singleness.'' ' 'Poets are always writing about the sea: / poets are people who want the sea to be real. / Vanities,… Leer más

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 2004. 273 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. Black mark over American Price, beginning crease in spine. TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTERVIEW: Richard Howard, The Art of Poetry No. 86, Paul Muldoon, The Art of Poetry No. 87, FEATURE: Paul Ferris, Ink Is Wanted by Raving Brother: Dylan Thomas's Swansea Years, FICTION: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Manhattan Reverie, Rick Moody, Savasana, Melanie Rae Thon, Heavenly Creatures, POETRY: David Baker, Melancholy Man, Maureen Bloomfield, Two Poems, Betsy Bonner, Three Poems, David Bottoms, Andalusia Visit, Douglas Browne, Two Poems, Cassandra Cleghorn, Three Poems, Martha Collins, Two Poems, Robert Cording, Much Laughter, Steven Cramer, Two Poems, Cynthia Cruz, Two Poems, Fred Dings, The Migrant Couple, Margaret Funkhouser, Two Poems, David Goldstein, Two Poems, Debora Greger, Sleeping Beauty in Florida, Daniel Groves, Portrait, Jared Hayley, Two Poems, Paul Kane, Two Poems, Lance Larsen, Two Poems, Richard Lyons, Two Poems, Cynthia… Leer más

New York: Paris Review Foundation, 1998. 304 pp. + advs. Cover and edges rubbed. TABLE OF CONTENTS: , INTERVIEW: Russell Banks, The Art of Fiction No. 152, Ismail Kadare, The Art of Fiction No. 153, FEATURE: Stephen Brook, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, William Dalrymple, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Nick Danziger, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Alex Frater, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Grey Gowrie, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, John Hatt, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Drue Heinz, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Edward Hoagland, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Howard Jacobsen, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Philip Marsden, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Harry Mathews, Oulipo Sampler, Cees Nooteboom, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel Writing, Paul Theroux, Como Conversazione: On Travel and Travel… Leer más