Poesia

Looking for The Gulf Motel.

Blanco, Richard, · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Pittsburgh, PA, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, (2012). VG. Blanco invites the reader in with its search for home, his lyrics open doors onto his Cuban immigrant family, his father's. early death, and his own migration from Florida to a life in Maine.

The Spirit Level: poems.

Heaney, Seamus, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999). 4th ptg. VG PB. ".speaks above and beyond a generation.poems that would ring like armour if you dropped them." Daily Telegraph. ".both buoyant and somber, cryptic and forthright" Times London.

Selected Poems.

Williams, William Carlos, edited by Charles Tomlinson, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, New Directions, (1985). 7th ptg. VG PB. Ezra Pound first seized on the essential elements in Williams' poetry in 1913.

Selected Poems.

Dove, Rita, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Vintage, (1993). 1st ed thus. VG PB. First black Poet Laureate of the United States as well as the youngest. Includes Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah. Dove was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and lives in Charlottesville.

Reasons for Moving (signed).

Strand, Mark, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Atheneum, 1968. 2nd ptg. G PB. Inscribed by Strand on half title page. Strand's conjugation of absence and presence, "wherever I am, I am what is missing,".

The Poetry of Maya Angelou.

Angelou, Maya, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Quality Paperback, (1993). VG PB. For the first time Angelou's complete poetic works, twenty years after "I know why the caged bird sings" first appeared. Owner stamp front endpaper.

Selected Poems.

Coffin, Robert P., · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, 1955. 2nd ptg. G. Blue binding, silver lettering and design on front cover. Edge wear, some fading toward spine, owner name front endpaper.

The Road to Home: Maine lakes.

Phoenix, Jessie, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, Self published, nd. VG PB. Includes the poem, "Give me a frozen Maine winter.".

The Transparent Hero.

Forte, James, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Arlington, MA, Wildflower Publishers, (1993). VG PB.

Love Poems, selected with foreword by Louis Untermeyer.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Barnes & Noble, (1994). VG in VG DJ. One of the unlikeliest love stories of literature. She was 39 and an invalid when he stormed his way into her life over the. protests of her tyrannical father. She was introverted, he was extremely extroverted. Owner inscription front e...

Ain't I a Woman: a book of women's poetry from around the world.

Linthwaite, Illona, edited by, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Wings Books, (1987). 10th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to 10th century Japan.

Quick as Dandelions: poems.

L'Heureux, John, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, 1964. 1st ed. G. "I want a city forever April or May perhaps but spring surely, a city of almost flowers and rain where sunlight threatens.". Front endpaper removed.

Pansies for Thoughts.

Unknown, · 1906 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Buffalo, Holiday Pub Co, (1906). G. Beautiful pansies on front cover, owner name crossed out on front endpaper, some discoloration on binding.

The Eugene Field Book: verses, stories, and letters for school reading.

Cable, · 1902 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, 1902. Fair. Frontis shows Field reading from a book surrounded by children. "Outgrowth of a constant demand for Field's poems in daily. school-reading, in weekly exercises, in school entertainments, in kindergartens, and in home study." from preface. Selections m...

The Fragrant Garden.

Pickles, Sheila, edited, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harmony Books, (1992). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG slipcase. Treasury of verse and prose.

Yellow Butterflies.

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, · 1922 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, 1922. 1st ed. VG. Dedicated to those Americans who gave in the Great War even more than life - to the blinded, an unknown American who gave. his life in the World War. Slight edge wear.

Untidy Candles: an anthology of contemporary Maine poets.

Zimmerman, Julie, editor, Irene Howe, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brunswick, ME, Biddle Pub Co, (1995). VG PB. Showcase of the variety, beauty, and scope of poetry in Maine. Anonymous illustrator R.S.

Les Fleurs du Mal, in French and English, new translation by Richard Howard.

Baudelaire, Charles, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Godine, (1985). 2nd PB ptg. VG lg sz PB. Translation of whole of Les Fleurs de Mal with 20 additional poems. Includes Beaudelaire chronology. Listing of discussions of Beaudelaire significant to the translation. Monotype illustrations by Mazur are striking. Few underli...

The Poems of Horace: a literal translation with memoir and introductions.

Collegiate School, · 1913 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1913. G. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering on spine. Fading toward outer front edge, cut somewhat unevenly at top fore-edge. Slight tanning to endpapers. It has been stated in the Life of Horace that after his schoolboy days were over he went to A...

Poems by Lydia H. Sigourney.

Sigourney, Lydia H., · 1846 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Uriah Hunt & Son, 1846. G. Green embossed binding, gilt lettering and decorations on binding. Owner name in pencil front endpaper, edge wear. All edges gilt.