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New York::: Random House,,, 1937... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Very Good plus dust jacket with four spots of darkening to rear panel and some wear to the head of the spine. The title narrative poem in this collection addresses the fierce conflicts of a tormented mind, in a tragedy of reversion involving a father, mother and son. In addition this collection features 22 shorter poems reflect Jeffers's interest in the dramatic as seen in the contemporary world around him.

New York:: Liveright,, 1932.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with a book plate on the front pastedown in a Very Good dust jacket, with shallow chipping to spine. This volume contains the long narrative poem "Thurso's Landing" and ten shorter works. There were only 2570 copies published in the first edition.

Stafford, William. Traveling Through the Dark: Poems. New York:: Harper & Row,, 1962.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner's name on the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Laid-in is a single sheet announcing Stafford's appearance in San Francisco for a series of readings (where this copy was purchased). Stafford's Second Trade Book. Traveling Through the Dark, was published when Stafford was forty-eight. and in 1963 it won the National Book Award. Stafford's poems are often deceptively simple. Like Robert Frost's, however, they reveal a distinctive and complex vision upon closer examination. James Dickey, writing in his book Babel to Byzantium, notes that Stafford's "natural mode of speech is a gentle, mystical, half-mocking and highly personal daydreaming about the western United States."

Seattle:: Alki Press,, 1997.. First Printing of the First Edition. New in wraps. First Paperback edition. There was a hardcover signed limited of 100 copies. Signed by the author. From waiting in plastic chairs, to putting a brother in a clothes dryer, blue Parisian rooms, to the sun shining on a Spanish onion field, from the reflection of dying Emperor Tong to a man in a Los Angeles coffee shop worried about his soul--these poems are micro-stories illuminating the world without and the world within.

New York:: Knopf,, 1996.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket.

New York::: Norton,,, 1993... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In this collection, Dunn blends his thoughts about poetry with musings about his own early experience. Five essays explore the mysteries of composition, the problems and latitudes the poet faces, and the ways in which poetry confers value. The rest are essay-memoirs, touching upon such diverse subjects as basketball, gambling, storytelling, and silence. Though anecdotal, each memoir relates to the poetic mentality. How one walks in a dangerous neighborhood can be analogous to how one moves in a poem. And if one survives the silence of shyness, Dunn convinces us, it can be a storehouse of the unspoken. The title is derived from William Meredith's "Crossing Over." Meredith's speaker, on an ice floe in the middle of a river, says, "I love this fool's walk./ The thing we have to learn is how to walk light."