Poesia

Looking for Luck: poems.

Kumin, Maxine (inscribed by author), · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Remarkable Women - "Beatrix Porter.and you, Louisa May,. and you Helen Nearing, almost ninety, kneeling to dig potatoes. for a guest's lunch, confessing 'I was twenty-six before I planted so much as a radish. Oh, I was lily-hand...

The Long Approach.

Kumin, Maxine (inscribed by author on title page), · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Penguin, (1986). VG PB. "What I understand from travel is how luck hangs in the lefthand lane fifteen miles over the limit and no cop, no drunk. no ice slick." "The most powerful book so far from this gifted and always surprising poet." Joyce Carol Oates.

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years: poems.

Bly, Robert, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Harper & Row, (1979). 1st ed 3rd ptg. VG PB. Bly's 6th major collection - land, nature, and landscape. Poems begin with human concerns and then become transparent so. the reader is able to sense in it the powerful consciousness inside things.

Eye Level: poems.

Xie, Jenny, · 2018 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Minneapolis, MN, Graywolf Press, (2018). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. Pictorial cover. Winner of the Walt Whitman Award 2017. "My parents and my words do not touch. I grow adept at tunneling inward, a habit I have yet to let go of.".

Ardor (a tribute to his love Jane Kenyon 1947-1995).

Hall, Donald signed, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$5,000.00 (€4,536.46 | £3,784.61 | ¥798,435)

Portland, Maine, Wolfe editions, August 1998. 76/150. VG first in a series of broadside poems. Printed for The Cafe Review. "Her death was the worst thing that could happen, and caring for her was the best.". "Hours are slow and weeks rapid in their vacancy. Each day lapses as...

The Penguin Book of Women Poets.

Cosman, Carol, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver, edited by, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Middlesex, England, Penguin, (1979). G PB. Spanning 4,500 years and 40 literary traditions with an introductory note about the poet and the historic and literary. context in which she wrote. Some edge wear and tanning to top fore-edge.

News of the Universe: poems of two-fold consciousness.

Bly, Robert, chosen and introduced by, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, (1980). 2nd ptg. VG PB. A unique anthology of 150 splendid poems from many eras and cultures illuminates the idea that human consciousness is only. one kind of consciousness operating in the universe. Bly traces an evolution in poetry since th...

Open Secret.

Rumi (Moyne, John and Coleman Barks), · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Putney, VT, Threshold Books, (1984). G PB slight edge wear. "Let the Letter Read You" Why stay so long where your words are scattered and doing no good? I've sent a letter a day for. a hundred days. Either you don't read a the mail or you've you've forgotten how to leave. Let ...

VEnus Remembered (signed by author).

Wormuth, Phil, edited by Sid Cusk, introduction by William A. Pike, · 2016 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

np, JTP Production, (2016). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Signed by author as presentation copy to Edward "Just Ned" McInnis author of preface. "No tips" Salt-shaker, pepper-shaker, ex-sugar shaker waitress Dirty looks, empty coffee cups, stained by the lips of lovers, all washed-up.

Earlier poems 1826-1933.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, · 1826 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, John W. Lovell Company, nd. G ex-library. Brown binding, gilt lettering on spine (faded), library markings, edge wear, foxing on fore edge, stain on spine. Note by American publisher. Poems in this volume were first published in 1826 and 1833 but were not included by the A...

Maine Lives: 101 contemporary poems about Maine.

Aldridge, Richard, compiled by, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1970). 1st edition. G in G DJ ex-library. Poets have prefaced their work explaining in what way they are either Maine-born or Maine-located, or Maine poets. Abbie Huston Evans, Florence B. Jacobs, George Oppen, Wilbert Snow, John Tagliabue. Library m...

Poems from the last London edition corrected by the author volume II & III plus letters and essays in 3rd volume.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, John W. Lovell Company, nd. 2 G ex-library. Brown binding, gilt lettering on spine (faded), library markings, edge wear, foxing on fore edge.

Gleanings: verses written over the years.

Johnson, Ethel M. (inscribed by author), · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Francestown, NH, Golden Quill Press, (1971). G ex-library. "You are not dead. For they alone are dead who are forgotten." Library markings, slight binding wear.

Whittier-Land: a handbook of North Esser containing many anecdotes of and poems by John Greenleaf Whittier....

Pickard, Samuel T., · 1904 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1904. G ex-library.never before collected. Origiinally designed to meet a call from tourists visiting the Whittier Shrines at Haverhill and. Amesbury. Many anecdotes and several poems are now first published. Also a chapter on his keen sense...

I Feel the Same Way.

Moore, Lilian, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Scholastic, (1966-67). G PB. Rarely found poetry by Lilian Moore with illustrations. Book tanned on endpaper, spine splitting at ends.

Clotheslines: a collection of poetry & art.

Tymorek, Stan, edited by, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Abrams, (2001). VG in VG DJ. Chanel, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Walker Evans, Sonia Delauanay, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Romare Bearden, Edward Steichen. Murasaki Shikibu, Patt Hill, Paul Colin, Jim Dine, Annie Leibovitz, Diego Rivera, Clarence John Laughlin, John Singer Sarge...

Goodbye Flicker: poems.

Smith, Carmen Gimenez, · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Amherst, MA, Univ of Massachusetts Press, (2012). VG PB. Interior life of a girl who has a dead-beat dad and her escape into a fantasy world of language, beauty, and the surreal. Takes on poetry, family, myth, fairy tale, memory, love, history, and plain ordinary human stories...

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Dickinson, Emily, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (1993). VG in VG DJ. Dickinson lived as a recluse most of her life and her poems were on fear, love, death, immortality and man's relation to. nature. Only 7 poems were published in her lifetime but she wrote two thousand in her lifetime.

Oeuvres Completes (in French) including a study of author, notes, list of historic persons and bibliography.

Villon, Francois, by M. Louis Moland, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Paris, Garnier Freres, nd. VG leather with gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands. Red title band on spine.

Goldsmith's The Deserted Village and other poems together with She Stoops to Conquer and The Good-Natured Man.

Oliver Goldsmith, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, 1923. VG. Goldsmith is best revealed to us by the medium of that charming personality which everywhere pervades his writings. From the. moment when Goldsmith appears before us as a dancing urchin with poouting, pock-marked face, into which we wish more of his mi...