Search Results: Catalog 77 - Poetry from Joseph Valles - Books

Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1966., 1966. Fine. [1st edition] ;128 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 66-24155 ; LC: PS3537.M983; Dewey: 811.52 ; OCLC: 2852024 ; textured tan and black faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Gifts for you -- Four deer on a hilltop -- People walk these days -- Old woman, alone -- Girl at the door -- Recording of Robert Frost -- Hands -- Stone wall makers -- Valley sun -- Two men -- House in darkness of sleep -- Old people in rocking chairs -- Love letter -- Girl of the storm - Landmarks -- A Christmas party -- The barn -- Man of the hills -- Theater -- Strange element -- Fall of rain -- The earth dwellers -- From my thought -- Histories -- Light with drums -- Aquarium -- Brief moment -- Atoms -- Outer distance -- Weather report -- Letter to the stars -- Walking -- This is Earth -- Introduction to Earth -- Dust universe -- Early clearing of fog -- Night sounds -- Mental landscape -- Return of the coast -- First night at the shore --… Read More

New York : Wisdom Library, 1949., 1949. Very Good. New and enlarged edition ; 94 p. ; 24 cm. ; Dewey: 892.709 ; OCLC: 10069338 ; light blue cloth with design and lettering in black ; no dustjacket ; spine sunned ; The Wisdom Library, a Division of Philosophical Library , New York ; Contents: The creation -- Have mercy on me, my soul! -- Two infants -- The life of love -- The house of fortune -- Song of the wave -- A poet's death is his life -- Peace -- The criminal -- The playground of life -- Song of fortune -- The city of the dead -- Song of the rain -- The widow and her son -- The poet -- Song of the soul -- Laughter and tears -- Song of the flower -- Vision -- The victors -- Song of love -- Two wishes -- Song of man -- Yesterday and today -- Before the throne of beauty -- Leave me, my blamer -- A lover's call -- The beauty of death -- The palace and the hut -- A poet's voice -- The bride's bed. ; text in English ; VG

Dallas : The Kaleidograph Press, 1942., 1942. Very Good. xi pp., 1 leaf, 15-87 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 42-51008 ; LC: PS3535.U683; Dewey: 811.5 ; OCLC: 2583854 ; orange textured cloth ; SIGNED presentation copy [to John Ransom Lewis, the late Poet Laureate of Georgia] ; David Riley Russell was a Fairfield, Texas native who was Poet Laureate of Texas, 1945-1947, and who won the Texas Institute of Letters prize for poetry with his book, "Sing with me Now". The David Russell Poetry Prize, named after him, is given annually by Southern Methodist University ; Contents: Turn back the clock -- In th is Dark Time -- Counter-Thrust -- Was It For This -- Is There No Waking -- Phenix -- Brief Oblivion -- There Is No Moment -- The Greater Power -- Better the Flame -- Note to Aggressors -- The Giant -- The Wolf -- The Purge -- The Words Move All One Way -- Misjudgment -- Renascence -- Steadfast -- A Song for England -- The Dawn -- The Greater Will -- I Have Believed -- Precaution -- Now! -- Two Ways -- Be Warned!… Read More

Atlanta : [s. l.], 1966., 1966. Very Good. [1st edition] ; [74] p. ; illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm. ; LC: PS3562.I6 ; OCLC: 13587822 ; red and black cloth ; no dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation [to John Ransom Lewis, Jr., the Poet Laureate of Georgia] ; "These poems by Ellen Lipham sparkle with wit and the unexpected word--tiny barbs that amuse, but never hurt." ; a former president of the Atlanta Writer's Club ; VG

Boston : Branden Press, 1965., 1965. Good. 64 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 65-26246 ; LC: PS3503.R2555; Dewey: 811.52 ; OCLC: 2044528 ; orange cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; slight dampstain on lower spine and front cover ; SIGNED presentation to John Ransom Lewis, one Georgia Poet Laureate to another, on front ep ; Bramblett was Georgia's first female Poet Laureate ; "Her first book of poetry was published in 1927, followed by five more books of poetry and a novel, My Brother, Oh My Brother. Bramblett taught Sunday School at the Forsyth Methodist Church and much of her poetry reflects this interest in religion. Bramblett helped to establish Georgia Poetry Day in 1948, chairing Georgia's first celebration of the annual event. She was appointed Georgia's poet laureate in 1963, a distinct ion she held until 1973. In 1971 she received an honorary doctorate in literature from Tift College. She was a member of the League of American Penwomen, the Georgia Writers Club, the Georgia Writers Association, the Dixie… Read More

Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1978., 1978. Fine. 77 pp. ; 20 cm. ; ISBN: 0823302717 :; 9780823302710 LCCN: 77-99152 ; OCLC: 4005998 ; LC: PS3525.U564; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; red cloth with gold lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; spine sunned ; Contents: Wind and the Woman -- Insulated -- Seascape -- Vision restored -- Meadows of the mind -- Sanctioned syllable -- Association test -- Thruway -- Quest of the kings -- In memoriam -- Meet me at Tony's -- Single search -- Homesite -- Fragile the durable day -- dishwasher -- Director -- By the pond - - Concert -- Tourist itinerary -- Focus on the singular -- Lilac festival -- Frail as infant breath -- The man in the practical suit -- Walk in the wood -- Mary Abbott, artist -- Identity dispute -- Housing shortage - The women are angry -- Soldier' s homecoming -- Wholly occupied with applause -- Security established -- Carousel -- dancing in the lounge -- Capitol -- No survivors -- Children's hour -- Monster hunt -- In that particular gutter -- Send… Read More

Francestown, NH, Golden Quill Press, 1965., 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 72 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 65-17473 ; LC: PS3566.E8 ; OCLC: 3594410 ; red and black cloth with pictorial dustjacket ; Paul James Petrie, a native of Detroit and graduate of Wayne University, where he was a member of the Miles Poetry Group; later, at Iowa State, he received his Ph D; he stayed in Spain the next year, with his wife, a landscape painter, and then returned to teaching ; a spot on front ep, else VG/VG.

[Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press, 1968., 1968. Very Good. [1st edition] ; 123 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 68-13940 ; LC: PS3511.R237; Dewey: 814/.5/2 ; OCLC: 284473 ; textured off-white cloth with gold lettering, in brown and blue dustjacket ; spine sunned ; tiny tear on back panel of dustjacket ; little essays o n poetry and writing touch on a variety of poetical points of view ; Contents: Be brutal -- Either or -- On looking like a poet -- Blood -- Defense of poetry -- Lyric as arrow -- Black eye -- In her own right -- On the exquisite air -- Distinction - - Teacher -- The muse -- Poetic license -- Scenes -- Poet as Bird -- Art of slow reading -- Word-count -- Half-god -- Garret -- Love me, love my poems -- It really isn't -- Bad poem -- With and without honorarium -- Lounge -- Frost as mugqump -- Poe try as a source of suffering -- By the rude bridge that arched the flood -- Production belt -- Labels -- Somebody-nobody -- Santayana Columbus and Samuel Eliot Morison -- The pathetic fallacy… Read More