Search Results: Poetry from House of Our Own Books

Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.: Adastra Press, 1999. This is the third printing of a collection of poems written between 1970 and 1993 and includes poems from previous collections, uncollected poems (1988-1992), and new poems (1993-1997); the poet Stephen Dunn calls this book "a moving record of how Vietnam hurt him into poetry, and into a moral vision;" inscribed, signed, and dated on the title page (plain tan cover with yellow lettering, author's photo on the back, has slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, 1979. A book of poems originally published in the New American Review, the New York Review of Books, the Partisan Review, the Paris Review, and Big Sky (black cloth & gold paper-covered boards with gold lettering, slightly sunned; dust jacket designed by the artist Larry Rivers with photo of the author on the back). Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

U.S.A.: Random House, 1974. This is the second printing of this book of poetry by the former poet leaureat of the United States; inscribed to his colleague at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Lucid, and dated March, 1974 (black cloth with very slightly faded, but still bight & legible, gold lettering on spine; otherwise a clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. This is the author's second collection of poetry that explores the patterns of everyday life and the inner drama of imagination; signed by the author on the title page and inscribed to the poet Joan Landis on the half-title page (white pictorial cover; a bright, clean, tight copy). Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: George Braziller, 1976. The author's second book, inscribed and dated "For Charlie, who pretended to drop by accidentally, hoping this book, long awaited, had at last arrived, from Carl, Feb., 1976" (red & brown cover, small scuff mark on upper right edge of rear cover, slight edgewear, faint crease at corner of last page, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

London, England, U.K.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1961. This is the fourth printing of the first British edition of a book by the Irish poet, novelist, and critic whom many critics and Irish literary figures considered the nation’s finest poet since Yeats (light brown cover with gold lettering on front & spine, previous owner's name on front end paper, pages slightly tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Tamarisk Press, 1981. Published in an edition of 500 copies as a "single artist" issue of Tamarisk magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, Fall, 1981; the verse play was originally produced by Alexandra Grilikhes on WXPN radio in Philadelphia on November 5, 1979, with a cast that included the author (white cover with black lettering and graphic, blue endpapers, inscribed by author on title page, cover slightly shelf-worn, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Limited Edition.

London, England, U.K.: Macmillan Press, 1978. This book is a comparative study of one of the oldest forms of poetry, the narrative poem of great exploits; it examines the technique and contents of poems from many different countries and shows how heroic poets tended to compose in much the same ways; 600 pages (pictorial cover with illustration from the Parthenon on the front; slight edge wear and faint creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. This is a selection of the prize-winning poet's best work and spans his entire career; it restores to print over fifty poems unavailable for decades and adds more than two dozen new poems collected for the first time; signed by the author on the title page (light yellow & gray cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1948. This is the stated first edition of Jarrell's third book of poetry (black cloth with slightly faded, but still legible, gold lettering on spine, small dent on front cover, pages very slightly tanned; otherwise a clean, tight copy). First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

Paris, France: Gallimard, 1963. This is a French edition (with all text in French) of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, 923 pages (black leather covers with gold lettering on spine; white dust jacket with red & black lettering, portrait of Rimbaud on the front, enclosed in clear mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Leather-Bound. Fine/Fine.

London, England, U.K.: Macmillan, 1965. First published in 1909, this volume consists of lectures delivered during the author's tenure of the Chair of Poetry at Oxford that were not included in his earlier volume, Shakespearean Tragedy; this volume includes his inaugural lectural, Poetry for Poetry's Sake; the others include The Sublime, Hegel's Theory of Tragedy, Wordsworth, Shelley's View of Poetry, The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth, The Letters of Keats, The Rejection of Falstaff, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare the Man, and Shakespeare's Theatre and Audience (blue textured cloth with gold lettering on spine is very slightly rubbed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London, England, U.K.: Rapp & Carroll, 1968. This is a first printing of a British edition of Kinnell's poems taken from his first two books, What a Kingdom It Was (1960) and Flower Herding on Mount Mondanock (1964); includes the 450-line poem The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World, which Selden Rodman called "the freshest, most exciting, and by far the most readable poem of a bleak decade" (white covers with french flaps, very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. This is a signed paperback edition of the author's selected poems; Kelly, a founder of the Deep Image group with Jerome Rothenberg, has taught at Bard College for nearly 60 years and published more than 50 books of poetry and prose; signed by the author on the title page (front cover has photo of the author; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

Belmont, MA, U.S.A.: Warthog Press, 2006. This is the second book of poems by the award-winning New Jersey poet, which one critic calls ".a brilliant book full of powerful, moving, and chillingly ironic poems;" signed by the author on the title page (light gray cover with black lettering, author's photo on front endpaper; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore; the author's first book,Tunnel Vision, also available). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Bloodaxe Books, 1994. This is the first English edition of the poetry of Italy's greatest living poet, translated by the English poet Charles Tomlinson (pictorial cover with painting on the front has slight edge wear, two yellow stickers on spine, a few small dents on the back, previous owner's inscription on front end paper; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Good.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press, 1987. The collection includes the best poems from the author's first book, Heart's Needle, winner of the 1959 Pulitzer Prize; his second book, After Experience; a privately published book, Remains; poems that appeared in small press or broadside form; some new poems; and excerpts from The Fuehrer Bunker, a series of dramatic monologues from the denizens of Hitler's bunker during the last month of the Reich; inscribed by author on back of half-title page, facing the title-page (black cloth with gold lettering & blue paper-covered boards; blue pictorial dust jacket with painting on front, author's photo on the back, slight crease on upper right edge of rear cover; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Half Cloth. As New/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1993. This is the first academic study of the New York School of Poets; it provides a critical and historical introduction to this group of writers, including close readings of major works by John Ashbery as well as detailed accounts of Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler; it examines the relationship between American poetry and painting in the Cold War years, and between modern poetry and deconstruction; it concludes with an account of the influence of the New York School on contemporary writers, such as the Language Poets (black cloth with gold lettering, pages very slightly tanned; pictorial dust jacket with photo of Frank O'Hara and other poets on the front, very small scuff mark on side of spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

West Orange, NJ, U.S.A.: Warthog Press, 2003. This is the first book of poetry by the award-winning New Jersey poet, which one critic said "explores the complexities of coming of age, race, prejudice, the influence of culture and the searing legacy of war." Signed by the author on the title page (light gray cover with black lettering, author's photo on the back; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore; the author's second book, Sam's Place, also available). Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. As New.

Lewiston, NY, U.S.A.: Mellen Poetry Press, 1991. Inscribed and dated by author on first blank page; previously published in Italian as Il carro del pesce di Vanzetti (blue textured paper covers with gold lettering, slight edgewear, otherwise a good, clean, tight copy; also available in Italian-language edition). Inscribed By Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good.