Category: Poetry

The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Noonday Press : 1996

Seller ID: 27808

ISBN-13: 9780374524524

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. A new verse translation by Robert Pinsky with notes by Nicole Pinsky. Foreword by John Freccero. 355p. Text in English and Italian.
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Wordsworth's Fun

By: Bevis, Matthew

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 2019

Seller ID: 32037

ISBN-13: 9780226652191

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very good

Unmarked. Explores Wordsworth's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. 303p. Index. Notes.
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Elizabeth Bishop: The Collected Prose

By: Bishop, Elizabeth

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus, The Hogarth Press : 1984

Seller ID: 32714

ISBN-13: 9780701128098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket, with Chatto price sticker on flap, under clear mylar cover. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux. 278p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet and short story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970.
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Saltwater Flats: A Silent Film

By: Blotnick, Elihu

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, BBM Associates : 1974

Seller ID: 32099

ISBN-13: 9780915090006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Rubbed edges. This book presents a personal journey in photographs and poems by Elihu Blotnick. Duotone printing, with 54 images. 64p.

Elihu Blotnick (b. 1939) worked as a photographer, interested in documentary photography. He was also an editor and writer. 63p.
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Forty Poems Touching on Recent American History

By: Bly, Robert (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Beacon Press : 1970

Seller ID: 31166

ISBN-13: 9780807064221

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Second printing. Slight chipping on dust jacket. A collection of political poems. Authors include Walt Whitman, Robert Creeley, Ezra Pound, Pablo Neruda, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Federico Garcia Lora, Donald Hall, David Ignatow, and others.

All poems in English, with translations by Robert Bly where applicable. 106p.
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Abschied von Rudolf Alexander Schroeder

By: Burckhardt, Carl J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Lothar Stiehm Verlages : 1962

Seller ID: 23220

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Text in German. Red dust jacket over unmarked paperback. A farewell to Rudolf Alexander Schroeder. 17p. Small bump on bottom edge.

Rudolf Alexander Schroeder (1878-1962) was a German translator and poet. Much of his work is Christian lyrical verse. He was a member of the Confessing Church which resisted Nazi Germany.
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Versos a Minerva

By: Burgoin, Jose Ramon Garcia

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura Lugar de edicion : 2006

Seller ID: 15074

ISBN-13: 9789709915068

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Paperback enclosed in library folder with clear plastic cover. Unmarked. French flaps. Spanish text. A verse play that won the State Prize at the Poetry Festivals Fundacion Ciudad de la Paz 2005.
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Snatches

By: Cairncross, Alec

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Colin Smythe : 1980

Seller ID: 25321

ISBN-13: 9780861400515

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Publisher's "compliments of the author" sheet loose inside book. 43p.
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Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life

By: Clark, Tom

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Norton : 1991

Seller ID: 33122

ISBN-13: 9780393029581

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. 403p. Notes. Index.

Examines the life and work of the renowned poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets.
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Dove Cottage: A Short Guide to the home of William Wordsworth, 1799-1808

By: Clutterbuck, Nesta

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Trustees of Dove Cottage : nd

Seller ID: 26528

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked inside. 24p. Die cut cover. Previous owner's name on cover. Illustrated throughout in color and B/W.

Dove Cottage is where Wordsworth wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today. When he left, the cottage was occupied by Thomas de Quincey, a Wordsworth friend, for a number of years.
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Histoire de Florida

By: Creeley, Robert

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Ferriss Editions : 1996

Seller ID: 33616

Binding: Sewn Binding

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author on half title page. End page reads: "Three sections of this poem appeared in GAS, a magazine. This first edition of the complete poem is limited to 140 copies in wrappers."

Unmarked text. Dust jacket over paperback. Sewn binding. 28p. Measures 6.25x10.5 inches.

Designed and printed letterpress by Les Ferriss.
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Repercussao

By: Cruz, Gastao

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Ass : 2004

Seller ID: 14398

ISBN-13: 9789723709049

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked book. Ex-library. Paperback book rebound in a library display case with clear cover. Text in Portuguese. 77p.
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Rube?n Dari?o: "entre la catedral y las ruinas paganas"

By: Dari?o, Rube?n

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Dibam: Lom Biblioteca Nacional de Chile : 1999

Seller ID: 33614

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. White tape on spine. Salo?n Fundadores, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago de Chile, 26 de mayo al 20 de agosto de 1999. Small black-and-white thumbnails. 112p. Measures 8x8 inches.

In Spanish.

Bookplate inside cover reads: "This title is made available through the University of California, Berkeley and National Library of Chile Linkages Project.

Rubén Darío (1867-1916), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century.
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Aber die Hoffnung: Autobiographisches aus und uber Deutschland (German Edition)

By: Domin, Hilde

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: R. Piper : 1982

Seller ID: 25349

ISBN-13: 9783492027953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Text in German. Unmarked text. 208p.

Hilde Domin (1909-2006) is the pseudonym of Hilde Palm, a German lyric poet and writer. She was among the most important German-language poets of her time.
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Lucebert (Art and Architecture in the Netherlands)

By: Eijkelboom, J.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: J.M. Meulenhoff : 1964

Seller ID: 32964

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Foxed cover, with a spot. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 35p. Measures 6.75x9.5 inches. Translated From the Dutch by C. De Dood.

Lucebert (1924-1994) was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement, a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.
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Notes from Travels

By: Emblen, Donald Lewis

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Santa Rosa, CA, Engdahl Typography : 1986

Seller ID: 32429

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. Number 272 in edition of 300. Signed and inscribed to Dorothy Bryant (1930-2017), an American novelist, playwright, essayist and feminist writer. Illustrated by Mayona Phelps Engdahl. Preface by Richard Welin.

Some age tanning on cover. Wave to volume. 62p. Measures 6.25x9.75 inches.

Donald Emblen (1918-2009) served as the first Sonoma County Poet Laureate.
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William Blake: Images and Texts

By: Essick, Robert N. (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Huntington Library Press : 1997

Seller ID: 24355

ISBN-13: 9780873281683

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 183p. For the first time in book form, Blake's "Vision of the Daughters of Albion" are shown in full color with six essays that are at the forefront of Blake criticism.

Contributors include Joseph Viscomi, Anne K. Mellor , David Bindman, Tilottama Rajan, Morris Eaves, W.J. T. Mitchell, and Robert N. Essick.
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Vitorino Nemesio: Micromemorias do Jornalismo

By: Ferreira, Dina Matos

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Coleccao Insula - Nova Serie : 1997

Seller ID: 26923

ISBN-13: 9789729213304

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 132p. Text in Portuguese. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132). Vitorino Nemesio (1901-1978) was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores.
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Ghost Volcano: Poems

By: Gilbert, Sandra M.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : 1995

Seller ID: 25540

ISBN-13: 9780393037838

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 112pp. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge wear and a scratch. Publisher's press release folded and loosely placed inside. In this book Gilbert sought both to elegize her husband and to understand his death in public, political, and philosophical contexts.
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One Skin (Found Body)

By: Graham, James

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Machete : 1993

Seller ID: 30252

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Sticker shadow on back cover. The first edition was published by Soncino Press in March 1993, in the New York Poets series. This second edition uses the original design with amplifications by Alix Corn, the original designer. 28p.
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Poetry Magazine (Volume 186, Number 3, June 2005)

By: Gregerson, Linda, Karr, Mary et al

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, The Poetry Foundation : 2005

Seller ID: 12214

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Featuring Linda Gregerson, Mary Karr and Peter Campion. Includes (among others) Edward Hirsch, Sarah C. Harwell, R.S. Gwynn, John Skoyles, Teresa Leo, and Samuel Menashe. Comments by Peter Xampion, Christina Phugh, Adam Kirsch, and D.H. Tracy. Advertisements. pp 197-275.
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American Poet (Volume 26, Spring 2004)

By: Hayley, Jared (editor)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: The American Academy of Poetry : 2004

Seller ID: 13252

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Journal of the Academy of American Poets. includes Mary Ruefle and Dean Young on Sincere Irreverence,"Robert Wrigley on Eamon Grennan's Still Life with Waterfall. Li-Young Lee and Tina Chang in conversation, Campbell McGrath on Vijay Seshadri's the Long Meadow, Kathryn Maris on science and poetry, Heather McHugh on the work of Richard Wilbur. In Memoriam: Alan Dugan, Josephine Jacobsen, and George Plimpton. Manuscript reproduction of a page from Marianne Moore's "The Mind, Intractable Thing." 80p.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds (Klange)

By: Kandinsky, Wassily; Napier, Elizabeth R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 2019

Seller ID: 32316

ISBN-13: 9780300238495

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Like New

Unmarked text. Published in the same year as his classic Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Sounds sheds light on Kandinsky's movement toward abstraction. This updated edition of Sounds includes all of the book's poems in English and German and its woodcuts, twelve of which appear in color for greater fidelity to the original. The translator's introduction offers close formal examination of the poems and situates Sounds in the context of Kandinsky's oeuvre. Translated and with an introduction by Elizabeth R. Napier. Includes a list of adaptations. Measures 7.5x8.25 inches. 143p.• • •...
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Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Kezar, Dennis

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Univ Press : 2001

Seller ID: 24400

ISBN-13: 9780195142952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Notes. Index. 268p. Examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Examines major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period.
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Conjuros y Presagios 1994

By: Levi, Enrique Jaramillo

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Universal Books : 2001

Seller ID: 21870

ISBN-13: 9789962623113

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Good

Ex-library. Text in Spanish. Unmarked. Re-bound into a perma-binding with a clear cover. 52p.

Contents: De sueños y pesadillas (1994-1996); Conjuros y presagios (1997-2000); Desdecires (1997-2000). Levi ( b. 1944 ) is a poet and storyteller from Panama.
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Category: Poetry