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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. New California Poetry, Volume 33 First Edition with full numberline. 8vo size trade paperback; 99 pages From back cover: "(The poet's) third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O'Brien's poems measure the 'vague… Read more about this item

Providence: Lost Roads, 1993. Number 39 in the Lost Roads series. This chapbook is an 8vo size trade paperback; 68 pages. A black and white photograph illustrates the front cover and a small black and white photo of the author appears on the back cover. From back cover: "(The author's) poems raise serious questions, decline easy… Read more about this item

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Flat Signed Pulitzer Prize Winner 8vo size trade paperback; 84 pages Flat signed by author on title page From back cover: "Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States (from 2004-2006) received the Pulitzer Prize for (this volume in 2005.)" Like new; we noted only a light bump… Read more about this item

2016. Very Rare Title 8vo size trade paperback; 140 pages with a few black and white photographs From back cover: "(This book) is a memoir in a traditional sense, a bouquet of memories from a life in the service of literature and teaching. The selfies are more often portraits in words than they are in photographs."… Read more about this item

Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1974. by Unitarian Universalist Women Writers, edited by Mary Lou Thompson 8vo size staple-bound softcover; 46 pages with sepia colored type and sepia colored illustrations throughout A chapbook with 40 poems. Includes the name and location of the contributor. Contributors include: Marjorie Baversfeld Alice Berry Viola Cook Merry Drake Judy Deutsch V… Read more about this item

Lowell, Massachusetts: Loom Press, 2001. Signed (first name only) and inscribed on title page. 8vo size staple-bound softcover; 39 pages. Author biography on back cover. From back cover: "Charles Levenstein's poems touch down in familiar and strange territory. he maps the interior landscape who signpost bears his own name. Home and away, back and… Read more about this item

Prospect, CT: Biographical Publishing Company, 2006. Stated First Edition Private Press Poetry Chapbook 8vo size trade paperback; 58 pages with some color illustrations. Brief biography and black and white photograph of author and illustrator are on last page. From back cover: "No one can deny that (the author) has had an eventful life. … Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback with photo illustrated covers; 31 glossy pages with some full page black and white photographs Jared Carter is the author of more than a dozen poetry books and poetry chapbooks. Top of book has a light coffee stain on top corner cover and pages. There… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1989. 8vo size trade paperback; 274 pages Dannie Abse (1923 - 2014) was the award winning author of more than 60 books, mostly poetry. He also wrote plays and several novels. Dr. Abse was also a medical doctor. Book has edgewear, crease on front cover and spine. There is a small abrasion near… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1969. Edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel Introduction by James Dickey Rare 1969 Second Edition; Macmillan; New York 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover; 257 pages including index From dust jacket: "Of all the major American poets, few have dealt with a greater range of man's experience than Edwin Arlington Robinson... (his) lucid and… Read more about this item

Camberra: Fanged Wombat Products, 1993. Signed, Limited Edition Signed and inscribed on page iii. 1,500 copies of this edition were published, 200 of those were numbered and signed. This signed copy is not numbered. 8vo size staple bound booklet; 58 pages From back cover: "Experience the rapture of Ode to a Leech, Family Tree… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Selected and edited by Charles Swain Thomas (head of the English Department of Newton, Massachusetts High School) 12mo size green clothbound hardcover with black titles and decorations; 124 pages Contents include 23 poems and a biographical sketch of the author. Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) was an English poet, professor and critic. … Read more about this item

Hanover, New Hampshire: Middlebury College Press, 1992. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover; 297 pages From dust jacket: "Best known for her carefully crafted, emotinally resonant novels, Rosellen Brown is committed to the ideal of the well-rounded writer. She shifts easily from prose to poetry, from fiction to nonfiction, from novels to… Read more about this item

Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Press, Inc., 1969. Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) was an English poet, professor and critic. As a professor of poetry at Oxford University, Arnold was the first to deliver his lectures in English instead of Latin. Folcroft Press; 1969. This is the third edition - and third publisher for this work. We could… Read more about this item

Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing, 2016. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page/fep. 8vo size trade paperback; 161 pages From back cover: "These poems were gleaned from five years of writing poetry starting in 2010... It is the poet's wish that these poems inspire, give hope and bring a smile to your face." The… Read more about this item

Boston: Godine, 2022. Rare Advance Reader's Copy 8vo size trade paperback; 276 pages Covers are unique to proof with Advance Reader's Copy stated on the the front cover. The back cover states Uncorrected Proof and provides an overview of the book, Advance Praise from other authors and minimal information on the finished book. From back cover:… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1994. 12mo size pictorial hardcover; unpaginated - about 30 heavyweight, glossy pages. Whimsical color illustrated endpapers compliment the border at top and bottom of covers. From back cover: "Buoyant watercolors illuminate the poetic vision of Shannon Willis in this book of revelation and whimsy. 'Just when you think you've seen everything,… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005. First Edition Thus: "This is a revised edition of The Element Book of Mystical Verse." 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 532 pages From dust jacket: "Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, (this book) gathers 600 poems by more than 250 poets. In addition to hundred of masterworks in… Read more about this item

First Rule Records, 2009. 15 Tracks Name of Poem/Name of Reader Ecclesiastes/Geoffrey Palmer A Red, Red Rose/Brian Cox I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud/Honor Blackman Business Girls/Joanna Lumley To Autumn/Ben Whishaw Do Not Stand At My Grave/Miriam Margolyes Diary of a Church Mouse/Martin Shaw Sonnets from the Portuguese/Lindsay Duncan He Wishes for Cloth of Heaven/Lennie James Sonnet… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Uncorrected Proof of Chapbook 8vo size trade paperback; 64 pages Back cover is unique to proof with very minimal details of the finished book. The fep also provides information on the book, the author and the finished publication. From fep: "Heavenly Questions... is a love poem that finds… Read more about this item