Tom Beckerlegge

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

An extravagant, lyrical novel about a city of poets and librarians at the height of the Renaissance. A city that never was.

A City of Poets and Dreamers, Liars and Cheats...

Tommaso Cellini, celebrated ruler of Cadenza, is dead, and the city mourns. For Carlo Mazzoni, an aspiring poet, it was the day of his arrival in the City of Words and the end of his dreams to walk side-by-side with the great man, two artists together.

For Vittoria -- known to all but a handful as the famed ink maid Hypatia -- the death of a ruler is less troubling than her sadness and inability to write. Without it, her admirers will leave her, and with it her livelihood.

With its ruler dead, the city plunges into turmoil amid rumours of war with its rival Venice. Surrounded by murder, intrigue, revenge and revolution, they must rely on new friends and sinister acquaintances to find their paths to freedom.

The Carnival of Ash

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Memoir

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession--a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery--of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.

The Ticking Is the Bomb

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1981 edition. The jacket has some wear and tear. The book itself is in good shape, has a page of inscriptions just inside the front cover and a scratch on the back side. 

 #hardcover #poetry #poems #robertfrost #vintagebook #vintagehardcover #classics #poets 

Colorado

Approximately 60 poems from the great American poet, including many previously unpublished. Includes landmark poems such as The Pasture, After Apple-Picking and The Wood Pile.

Early Poems of Robert Frost

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Library stamp inside page - slight aging of outside cover 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Christians You Should Know 

Pennsylvania

Over 175,000 copies have been sold of this perennially popular collection of America's favorite poems.

Poems That Live Forever

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West Virginia

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

Nick Flynn

New Jersey

"A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."--Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession--a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life. The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery--of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

A Festival of Poets

"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, The Language Of Life celebrates language in its "most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form," and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda McCarriston's award-winning poems about a child trapped in a violent home, or to Jimmy Santiago Baca explaining how words changed his life in prison, or to David Mura describing his Japanese American grandfather's experience in relocation camps, or to Sekou Sundiata stitching the magic of his childhood church in Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet's voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric. "'Listen,' said the storytellers of old, 'listen and you shall hear,'" explains Bill Moyers. The Language Of Life is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.

The Language of Life

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Beautiful Poetry to Treasure

A superlative anthology of some of the world's favorite poetry includes nearly two hundred classic poems by William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browing, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, and many other notable writers.

Little Book of Cherished Poems

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Kwame Alexander

Chris Colderley

Marjory Wentworth

HC with dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Ex-libtary with noted markings. DJ taped to covers. Tight binding. Pages in like new condition. 

California

The 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner

A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree's New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.

Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

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Sarah Stern

Signed copy! Excellent condition, only some pencil writing on inside front cover (see photos)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune

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James Lowry

"A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels"--Nelson's famous description of Naples--was a world eagerly embraced by a young Irish doctor called James Lowry who went to sea, apparently, for the sheer sense of adventure and a desire for exotic travel. Sent to join Nelson's victorious fleet after the Battle of the Nile, he experienced more naval action and saw more foreign climes than he had anticipated. What really engaged his interest (and enthusiasm) was the relaxed sexual mores of Italian society. With no thought that his memoirs would be published, he recounted his adventures in rather more detail than might be thought proper. This fascinating account lay hidden in the hands of Lowry's family for two hundred years before its first publication in 2006

The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet

"A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels"--Nelson's famous description of Naples--was a world eagerly embraced by a young Irish doctor called James Lowry who went to sea, apparently, for the sheer sense of adventure and a desire for exotic travel. Sent to join Nelson's victorious fleet after the Battle of the Nile, he experienced more naval action and saw more foreign climes than he had anticipated. What really engaged his interest (and enthusiasm) was the relaxed sexual mores of Italian society. With no thought that his memoirs would be published, he recounted his adventures in rather more detail than might be thought proper. This fascinating account lay hidden in the hands of Lowry's family for two hundred years before its first publication in 2006.

Fiddlers and Whores

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Ha Jin

A New York Times Notable Book

One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate

nbsp;In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family -- father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao -- as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.

A Free Life

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David Schiller

The perfect gift for seekers, the curious, and the spiritually hungry, The Little Book of Prayers now has a stunning new cover and a more prayer book-like format.



Gathered from holy books and prayer books, from songs and spirituals, spoken traditions and poets, it is an unexpectedly approachable collection of common and uncommon prayers from around the world. The entries, one per page or spread, are chosen for their depth of feeling, beauty of expression, spiritual intensity, and sense of the universal. The book is organized into broad categories of praise, entreaty, contemplation, mourning, and grace; and two indexes--one by authorship, and the other by topic--make it immediately accessible.



There are familiar prayers, like the Lord's Prayer and 23rd Psalm, which, placed in new context, shine with a renewed beauty and wisdom. You'll find prayers unfamiliar to many in the West, such as the "Opener" from the Koran or the four vows of the Boddhisattva, chanted every evening in Zen monasteries around the world. And the surprising--from the "Prayer of the Unknown Confederate Soldier" to the blues of Lightnin' Hopkins to the poetry of Rumi.

God help us to live slowly:

To move simply:

To look softly:

To allow emptiness:

To let the heart create

for us.

Amen.

--Michael Leunig

You, whose day it is, make it

beautiful. Get out your rainbow

colors, so it will be beautiful.

--Nootka Song

The Little Book of Prayers

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There is some adhesive residue from the price tag on the back, upper right, corner of the dust jacket. Barnes & Noble edition. 

Oregon

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Famous Narrative Poems

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Ohio

A Life of Sylvia Plath

In this authoritative and controversial biography, Stevenson charts the ways in which Sylvia Plath created her own legend--one at odds with the posthumous myth that has grown up around her. It is "the most genuinely feminist account of Plath's life yet: one in which Plath herself is held to be responsible for her own life, her own death" (Washington Post Book World). (A Mariner Reissue)

Bitter Fame

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Age yellowing, very good overall #american #poetry #paperback #poems #poets

Virginia

Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy the center of this anthology of nearly three hundred poems, spanning the course of the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and Lanier. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

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Aristotle Aristotle

On Man in the Universe

Aristotle

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Brenda Wineapple

Clean text and dust jacket intact. Price clipped. First edition. See photos. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Wineapple gives a radiant portrayal of one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters--between the elusive, original poet Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer.

White Heat

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Kentucky

Written for beginning and experienced writers, the author defines 14 poetic elements in easy-to-understand terms. Worksheets, exercises, and writing suggestions provide immediate practice.

Writing Poetry

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Joel Conarroe

An Anthology

In this generous anthology, Joel Conarroe has assembled the work of eight poets who have shaped--and to some extent defined--American verse since 1940: Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell. The 164 selections in Eight American Poets include widely anthologized works like Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," several of Berryman's "Dream Songs," and Anne Sexton's "Ringing the Bells," as well as poems that are less familiar but just as haunting. Prefaced with a discerning introduction and individual biographical essays.

Eight American Poets

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Walt Whitman does not hold back! Inspiring and beautifully written, this book has helped me become a braver writer ✍🏽

This book, printed by Barnes & Noble in 1993, includes poems from 1855 up until after his death in 1892.

There is minor shelf wear on both sides of the hardcover and a few creases at the top center of the paper cover. A darkened line runs along the inner edges of the paper cover. The latter is only visible on the inside, when removed. Please message me if you have questions.

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Tom Beckerlegge

The Carnival of Ash

Nick Flynn

The Ticking Is the Bomb

Robert Frost

Early Poems of Robert Frost

Ruth I. Johnson

Christians You Should Know

Hazel Felleman

Poems That Live Forever

Oscar Williams and Edwin honig

The Mentor Book of Major American Poets

Nick Flynn

The Ticking Is the Bomb

Bill Moyers

The Language of Life

Kay Anne Carson

Little Book of Cherished Poems

Kwame Alexander; Chris Colderley; Marjory Wentworth; Illustrated by Ekua Holmes

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Sarah Stern

We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune

James Lowry

Fiddlers and Whores

Ha Jin

A Free Life

David Schiller

The Little Book of Prayers

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Anne Stevenson

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Aristotle

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Eight American Poets

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