Poesia

Camp Talk.

Baehr, Russ, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Bend. OR, Maverick Publications, (1977). G PB. "Tales told while sitting around a sputtering fire or hiking a wind-swept ridge back to camp.". "The Big Country" Sprawling, brawling, skyline mauling Spread out cuntry of the West. Roiling, boiling, rivers coiling thread their wa...

French Poets and Novelists.

James, Henry, introduction by Leon Edel, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Grosset & Dunlap/Universal, (1964). 1st ed. VG PB. A classic of American criticism, "French Poets" has nver before had an American edition. James, writing in 1975 and without. the benefit of historical perspective, was able to pick out from among the host of 19th century F...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Blake, William, introduction by Ruthven Todd, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Falcon Press, (1947). Facsimile 1794. G PB. Albion facsimiles. Heavy stock paper, gray and blue wraps, Songs of Innocence in classic English poetry with Blake's. illustrations, part of the Romantic movement. Deckle edges have some wear.

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Sir, chosen and edited by, · 1940 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1940. New edition. VG. Quiller-Couch in his preface states he has "tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from. the Thirteenth Century to the closing year of the Ninteenth, and to choose the best.".

The Garden: new and selected poetry and prose: in both Russian and English.

Akhmadulina, Bella, edited, translated, and introduced by F. D. Reeve, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Holt, (1990). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. One of the finest poets in the Soviet Union today makes her American debut with this rich sweeping collection. She is. remarkable in her linguistic dexterity, her sharp wit and intensity, her flair for storytelling, and her exceptional ...

The Librarian and Other Poems (signed by author).

Moose, Ruth, · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Charlotte, NC, Main Street Rag Pub Co, (2009). VG PB. Author thanks MacDowell Colony where some of these poems were written or revised. Sally Buckner says, "If this collection. does nothing else, it will forever erase our stereotype of a librarian (prim spinster always with fi...

Awaken, Bells Falling: poems 1959-1967.

Turco, Lewis, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Columbia, MO, Univ of Missouri Press, (1968). G PB. In 1960 reviewers of Turco's First Poems said most of his poems showed a brilliant sense of technique and an imagination that. loves to court the language. John Ciardi said Turco has the gift of seeing things and the gift of ...

Distant Blue.

Carper, Thomas (recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur Award), · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Evansville, IN, Univ of Evansville Press, (2003). VG in VG DJ. Carefully crafted poems and beautifully rendered translations from authors such as Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Akhmatova. A powerful testimony to an author whose mind ranges from sublimed metaphysical observatins to un...

A Working Girl Can't Win and other poems.

Garrison, Deborah, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1998). VG in VG DJ. John Updike says, "With their short lines, sneaky rhymes, and casual leaps of metaphor, Garrison's poetry have a Dickinsonian. intensity and the Amherst recluse's air of independent-minded, lightly populated singleness. Many a working girl will...

The Poetical Works of Robert Southey with a Memoir.

Southey, Robert, · 1895 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Crowell, nd (ca 1895). VG leather bound. Tan leather binding with gilt lettering and design, all edges gilt. Owner name in pencil on front endpaper. Southey was born August 12th, 1774, and through both his parents was born from respectable families of Somerset County, Engl...

Poetical Works containing Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby Ballads, Lyrics & Songs.

Scott, Sir Walter, Bart., · 1868 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Appleton, (1868). G. Includes a 16 page life of the author. Half leather, marbled boards, owner name, edge wear, gilt lettering & design on spine. Scott was one of the sons of Walter Scott, Esq., writer to the signet by Anne, daughter of Dr. John Rutherford, professor of m...

A New England Sleighing Frolic nd other Poems.

Amey M. Hillyer, · 1884 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Frank Wood Printer, 1884. 1st ed. G some pages loosening, rough spots to binding edges. Two-page author's introduction. Adlngton was born in Temple Street, Boston, Massachusetts, December 24, 1789 and died in. Weymouth, Mass. on Palm Sunday, April 6, 1884. His father E...

Heredities: poems.

Martinez, J. Michael, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State Univ, (2010). 1st ptg. VG PB. "Martinez attempts the impossible - he excites nostalgia, peers through wolf skin, conquest, and god. A Mind devouring. tour-de-force". Juan Felipe Herbera, from his judge's citation. Born and raised in Greeley, Co...

Mirrors into Rivers: poetry.

Erikson, George, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Gorham, ME, Waterwheel, (1994). VG PB. "Listen.slow scraping of ice on ice stone on stone as the fear melts the tears collect in a great glacial lake I see a. face in the mirror Lake Agasssiz. Beautiful condition beige cover with purple design and lettering.

The Odyssey a Modern Sequel.

synopsis and notes by Kimon Friar, · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon & Schuster, 1958. 1st ed 3rd ptg. VG in G DJ. This work by the renown author of Zorba the Greek has been acclaimed as one of the towering achievements of contemporary. literature. It is not a new version of Homer but a modern sequel, an epic in its own right. Kazantz...

Japanese Love Poems.

Bennett, Jean, edited by, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, 1976. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Nearly 200 love poems from Japan's classic poets, ancient and modern, are ncluded in this magnificent collection. Ancient. Japanese poetry was the poetry of the court which enjoyed two kinds of love: marital and illicit. Most marriages ...

The Butterfly Tree: an anthoogy of black writing from the upper midwest.

Balfour, Conrad, edited by, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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St. Paul, MN, New Rivers Press, (1985). 1st ed ltd. VG PB. Second in an ongoing series of ethnic anthologies as part of Many Minnesotas Project. Biographical notes on writers.

Sin: poems.

Ai, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1986). 2nd ptg. G PB. ".portraits of human souls: Gothic, expressionistic portraits with emphatic, haunted strokes." Robert Pinsky. Some sticker remnants.

Artists in Living Anne and Vibe Spicer with some unpublished poems.

Sanborn and Dorothy Sears, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1941). G. Inscription by one of the compilers, Lucy Hall.

First Gropings.

Mulcahy, William Francis, introduction by J. Lester Lamphere, · 1930 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Dedham, MA, Transcrpt Press, Inc., (1930). VG. "She died one night - I know not how nor where, I only know that suddenly the autumn air was chill.I sat a long time in. my chair. She died one night - I know not how nor where." Blue binding, gilt lettering. Owner name front endp...