Poetry from Diatrope Books

Story Line Press, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. A few sun spots on back. 55p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. Carl Djerassi (193-2015) was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook.

The Library of Congress, 1964. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Lecture/essay by Louis Untermeyer with bibliography. 40p. Measures 6x9 inches.

Norton, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Examines the life and work of the renowned poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa, CA: Engdahl Typography, 1986. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Number 272 in edition of 300. Signed and inscribed to Dorothy Bryant (1930-2017), an American novelist, playwright, essayist and feminist writer. Illustrated by Mayona Phelps Engdahl. Preface by Richard Welin. 62p. Measures 6.25x9.75 inches. Some age tanning on cover. Wave to volume. Donald Emblen (1918-2009) served as the… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Fifth printing. Introduction by Randall Jarrell. 140p. Measures 4.25x7 inches. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a Puerto Rican-American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine.

Binghamton, N.Y: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked text. Includes the base text, Bodley Ms. 415 with annotations from 8 other mss. It is an adaptation in part of Manuel des pechiez, usually ascribed to William de Wadington. William of Waddington was an Anglo-Norman poet of the thirteenth century. The Manuel des pechiez… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2011. Paperback. Like New. Unmarked. Translated by Jane Ann Miller. Drawing on a wide range of source materials, some previously unpublished, and extensive interviews with writers and critics, Loseff carefully reconstructs Joseph Brodsky's (1940-1996) personal history while offering deft and sensitive commentary on the philosophical, religious, and mythological sources that influenced the poet’s work. 333p.… Read more about this item

Graywolf Press, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. By a Poet Laureate of the United States. Also A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. 76p. With allusions to David… Read more about this item

Beacon Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Second printing. Slight chipping on dust jacket. A collection of political poems. Authors include Walt Whitman, Robert Creeley, Ezra Pound, Pablo Neruda, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Federico Garcia Lora, Donald Hall, David Ignatow, and others. All poems in English, with translations by Robert Bly where… Read more about this item

Dragon Gate, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Edited by Ethel Fortner. A selection of poems that covers urban and rural life, peace, social justice, love, marriage, nature, death, and the past. 140p. Eve Triem was a twentieth century American poet.

University of Chicago Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. Written in a language rarely heard in modern devotion, the poems in Rib Cage show old communities disintegrating, extended families dispersing, and people in economic or personal distress struggling for dignity and a clear sense of their predicaments.

Machete, 1993. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Sticker shadow on back cover. The first edition was published by Soncino Press in March 1993, in the New York Poets series. This second edition uses the original design with amplifications by Alix Corn, the original designer. 28p.

The Berkeley Library, The University of California Berkeley, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. A collection of Judith Lee Stronach's writings published posthumously. 30p. Limited edition of 400 copies. Measures 7x10 inches. Stronach was an arts patron and social activist who worked both independently and with numerous international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International.

The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. The fifth Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture, May 2, 2008. 16p. Measures 7x10 inches. Limited edition of 500 copies. Introduction by Raymond Lifchez. Carl Phillips (b. 1959), an American writer and poet, has won a number of awards for his work. He also teaches African and Afro-American Studies… Read more about this item

The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. The fourth Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture, May 4, 2007. 18p. Measures 7x10 inches. Sharon Olds (b. 1942) is an American poet.

Trustees of Dove Cottage, nd. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked inside. 24p. Die cut cover. Previous owner's name on cover. Illustrated throughout in color and B/W. Dove Cottage is where Wordsworth wrote much of the poetry for which he is remembered today. When he left, the cottage was occupied by Thomas de Quincey, a Wordsworth friend,… Read more about this item

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. 112pp. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge wear and a scratch. Publisher's press release folded and loosely placed inside. In this book Gilbert sought both to elegize her husband and to understand his death in public, political, and philosophical contexts.

R. Piper, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Text in German. Unmarked text. 208p. Hilde Domin (1909-2006) is the pseudonym of Hilde Palm, a German lyric poet and writer. She was among the most important German-language poets of her time.

Colin Smythe, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Publisher's "compliments of the author" sheet loose inside book. 43p.

Poetry Foundation, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Features Averill Curdy, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Mary Ruefle. Color illustrations of Ferlinghetti paintings. pp311-415. Other poets include James Lasdun, Dore Kiesselbah, Kay Ryan, Brian Swann, and others.