Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Book 2 of 5: Robert M. Drake/Vintage Wild

A collection of poems and meditations on love, loss, and human relationships.

Black Butterfly

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Robert Frost

New York

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting In the Seed," "A Time to Talk," "The Hill Wife," "The Exposed Nest," "The Sound of Trees" and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken."

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

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This is the first Noonday printing from 1971. It is a collection of verses from Robert Lowell, including his famous “Waking Early Sunday Morning.” The volume has very slight wear and indentions on the cover. The spine is in excellent condition. No damage to the pages; no annotations throughout. This is a great little collectible volume of great poetry.

New Mexico

Near the Ocean 

David Lehman

Matthew Zapruder

Vermont

Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.

The Best American Poetry 2022

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Hayden Carruth

Age wear, marker cross out over prior owner name in insert, spine crease and corner crease. Otherwise inner text is mostly clean and unmarked. 

Maryland

American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each. “Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”Robert Lowell

The Voice That Is Great Within Us

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Thomas H. Johnson

Emily. Dickinson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Poems

Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.

Final Harvest

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Rich Levy

Bottom pages corner slightly bent. Gives it character. 

Texas

Why Me?

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Geoffrey Moore

Henry Longfellow

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-color reproductions of period art, and readable, scholarly introductions. 12 full-color illustrations.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Honor Moore

Some imperfections on dust over but spine and pages are pristine.

New Jersey

(American Poets Project #28)

“In 1965, Sylvia Plath’s posthumous Ariel took the literary world by storm with its fierce and undeniably female voice. For the next 15 years, America saw a historic outpouring of women’s poetry supported by and supporting the women’s movement. As editor Moore points out, poetry was vital to the movement, articulating previously unexpressed lives, empowering others as the poets found their own power. . . . And all who missed these missiles and epistles then will find them still demanding and invigorating.”—Booklist (starred review) “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? / The world would split open.” These lines by Muriel Rukeyser epitomize the spirit that animated a whole generation of women poets, from the 1960s to the 1980s, who in exploring the unspoken truths of their lives sparked a literary revolution. Honor Moore’s anthology presents fifty-eight poets whose work defines an era, among them Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Sonia Sanchez, May Swenson, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Anne Waldman, Sharon Olds, Diane Di Prima, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles. Here is a fresh and revelatory look at a crucial time in American poetry that presents the full range of its themes and approaches and a generous sampling of its most compelling voices. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Poems from the Women's Movement

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Oscar Williams

A compact anthology of 3 centuries of poetry by 20 great American poets.

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

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Nick Lantz

In "How to Dance as the Roof Caves In," Nick Lantz navigates the complexities of the modern world with a blend of wry humor, poignant reflection, and imaginative leaps.  These poems confront the anxieties of our times – environmentalPrecarity, political turmoil, personal struggles – while also finding moments of joy, wonder, and connection.  Lantz's work is characterized by its sharp imagery, musical language, and an ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary.  He explores themes of love, loss, parenthood, and the search for meaning in a world that often feels chaotic and uncertain.  This collection is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of art to illuminate our lives, even as the "roof caves in."

Illinois

How to Dance As the Roof Caves In

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Robert Bly

Represents a collection of the poet's best work, selected from his eight previous collections, and includes a commentary on the development of his oeuvre

Selected Poems

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Charles Bukowski

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Poems, 1951-1993

The Pleasures of the Damned

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Andrei Codrescu

Up Late

American Poetry since 1970

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Unabridged version. Very minor wear and a small stain. Other than that, it looks very good.

Kept in a smoke-free and pet-free home. 

California

Unabridged

Hart Crane

Vintage copy, no writing/highlighting on pages. 
Mild shelf wear on covers. Spine is strong and intact. I purchased this book for a college course in American Poetry. 

Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity."

The Bridge

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Dean Young

Dean Young's poems are as entertaining and imaginative as a three-ring circus painted by Hieronymous Bosch

Fall Higher

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Carl. Sandburg

ery good condition somewhere and tear on dust cover and some writing on inside first few pages as shown in pictures. Please look at all photos and ask any questions before purchasing.


Honey and Salt by Carl Sandburg is a heartfelt poetry collection that explores themes of love, mortality, and the human experience. Sandburg’s verses range from tender reflections on relationships to profound meditations on life and nature. With his signature simplicity and lyrical depth, this final collection showcases his mastery of capturing universal truths in vivid, memorable imagery.

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

A new volume of poems

In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Honey and Salt

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Connecticut

Louise Borden

Signed by the very first owner of this poetry book. Davis soc. Studies. 

America Is..." is a children's book written by Louise Borden and illustrated by Stacey Schuett, published in 2005. It celebrates the diverse landscapes, people, and symbols of the United States. The book aims to answer the question, "What's it like to live in America?" through poetic text and illustrations. It covers various aspects of the nation, from its farmlands and cities to its rivers, mountains, and people. The book also highlights national symbols like the American flag. 

North Carolina

In words and pictures, this is a salute to our great country, the land of freedom for us and for people all over the world. In her poetic text, Louise Borden evokes with bold strokes many aspects of our nation -- its farmlands, its prairies, its cattle country, its cities, its rivers, and the many kinds of people who live and work here. Mountains and deserts, waterfalls and beaches -- each of our states has special things to see and enjoy. And all over this country, our flag flies, with fifty stars for our current fifty states and thirteen broad stripes for our original thirteen colonies. A few years ago, Louise Borden spoke to a group of schoolchildren in a library in Birmingham, England. When she finished, the very first question was, "What's it like to live in America?" This book is her answer. Readers of all ages will join in this salute to the place we call home, celebrated here in a simple, inspiring text and in lovely, atmospheric, full-color pictures.

America Is...

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Edward Hirsch

“These are poems of immense wonder and rigor. To say that they are religious poems is only to recognize their grandeur and generosity, and their heart-breaking longing.” —Patricia Hampl, The New York Times Book Review “With Earthly Measures, Edward Hirsch breaks through the ring of fire and captures his Muse. The voice is now uncannily his own; uncanny because we believe we have heard it before, yet the accents are unearthly and utterly fresh. Like his poem on Art Pepper, this voice also hears the chords of Stevens and Celan, but knows that ‘play solo means going on alone, improvising.’” —Harold Bloom “Edward Hirsch is one of the finest poets we have! He has wonderful gifts to offer us: a strong, touching narrative voice; alert, mindful eye; the moral energy that informs his manner of writing and his choice of subjects; a desire to reach his readers, bring them into the world he observes, creates.” —Robert Coles “I can’t think of any contemporary whose poems have such an unfeigned urgency of feeling. At the same time, Hirsch’s poems have a considered richness in them, and greatly repay rereading.” —Richard Wilbur

Earthly Measures

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A couple of small imperfections on the dust jacket

In partnership with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics to life for a new generation of readers. In addition to original artwork, each volume contains a fascinating selection of unique materials such as handwritten diaries, letters, manuscripts, and notebooks. Simply put, this series presents the work of our most beloved authors in what may well be their most beautiful editions, perfect to own or to give. Published on the occasion of Doubleday's 100th birthday, the New York Public Library Collector's Editions are sure to become an essential part of the modern book lover's private library. This collection of Emily Dickinson's poems, compiled by the librarians most familiar with her work and complemented by several of the poet's handwritten letters, is illustrated with lithographs by Will Barnet and pen-and-ink drawings by Stephen Tennant, artists who have drawn inspiration from Dickinson's poetry. It is a beautiful and affordable celebration of the work of one of our favorite poets.

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Robert M. Drake

Black Butterfly

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Robert Lowell

Near the Ocean

David Lehman; Matthew Zapruder

The Best American Poetry 2022

Hayden Carruth

The Voice That Is Great Within Us

Thomas H. Johnson; Emily. Dickinson

Final Harvest

Rich Levy

Why Me?

Geoffrey Moore; Henry Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Honor Moore

Poems from the Women's Movement

Oscar Williams

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

Nick Lantz

How to Dance As the Roof Caves In

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

Charles Bukowski

The Pleasures of the Damned

Andrei Codrescu

American Poetry since 1970

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Robert Bly

Selected Poems

Hart Crane

The Bridge

Dean Young

Fall Higher

Carl. Sandburg

Honey and Salt

Thomas H. Johnson; Emily. Dickinson

Final Harvest

Louise Borden

America Is...

Edward Hirsch

Earthly Measures

Thomas H. Johnson; Emily. Dickinson

Final Harvest

Emily. Dickinson

Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson