Search Results: Poetry/Verse from 100 POCKETS

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/Near New w/two folded corner tips. Illustrated (cover photo by Debora Greger)/NF. Anthology. Collected works of award-winning American poet and artist Debora Greger (1949-).

Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; no flaws w/library stamps. Intellectual history. Consideration of spiritualism in the works of German poet Heinrich Heine (1797 - 856). .68 pgs in. 8 chapters :I, Spiritualism; II, Sensualism; III, Goethe, Shakespeare & Luther as "Complete" Men; IV, Sensualism in Christianity; V, The Heine-Borne Controversy: Political Asceticism; VI, The "Decline" of Christianity; VII, The Rise of Pantheism; and VIII, "Le nouveau christianisme." Strong copy.

Montevideo: Editorial Alfa, 1967. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB. UNCIRCULATED Copy. No loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. The original book and covers are encased intact within the library binding. 20th century Uruguayan poetry w/biographical sketches of poets. The informative Prólogo is 60 pages; the balance is devoted to 29 poets from Fernando Pereda to Milton Schinca, including Esther de Cáceres, Juan Cunha, Sara de Ibáñez, Susana Soca, Clara Silva, Mario Benedetti, Ricardo Paseyro, Washington Benavides, and others.199 pages, plus unnumbered Indice.

New York, NY: New York Univ Press, 1970. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Author signed to first title page. Red linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; price-clipped; w/edge wear & discoloration & trace soiling. Hand correction of errata includes whiteout on inner front flap of dust jacket, and to pgs 10/11. 4th volume in the Contemporaries Series. Many of the poems in this collection have appeared in The Saturday Review, Midstream, Trace, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Encounter, Kayak, The New York Times, and the Lace Curtain. The title is drawn from the first poem, Retreat: "After the armies have passed/ and we stand in the doorways/ of our, ruined, staring faces/ wondering if we are safe,/ the smell of pestilence comes/ carried by our memories/ stronger than words, and more true." The gift dedication reads: "under eternity, words ---" Jascha Kessler, Professor of English, has published a previous volume of poetry, Whatever Love Declares, as… Read More

New York, NY: Owlet, 1994. First Edition. First Printing . Paperback. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/light eade rubs. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text edge. Anthology of slam poetry, sometimes described as 'rap swagger' songs. Core essence is affirmation that "Rap is Poetry", and oral recitation/performance (slamming) makes the song alive and meaningful. The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner.

New York, NY: The Academy of American Poets, 2014. Volume 46, Spring-Summer 2014 . Soft Cover/Journal. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Spring-Summer 2014 issue commemorating the 80th anniversary year of this journal. 112 pgs. This issue features: "Impossible Poetry? On Gertrude Stein" by Anne Waldman. Other essays include: 2, Introducing Youna Kwak (Prageeta Sharma); 3, Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In (John Ashbery); 4, On Patricia Smith's Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Gregory Orr), ; Philip Levine Poet of His Time And Place; and others.

Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 1960. Illustrated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7"; 19cm. A splendid collection of German poetry. 173 pages, with Nachwort, Anmerkungen, Die Überchriften und Anfänge der Gedicht, Die Dichter, and Ausgaben und Sammelwerke. Covers show slight aging and shelf-use; text is strong and unmarked, but coloring slightly.

Baarle-Nassau: SoMA, 1981. Reprint . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT. BRAND NEW COPY w/small soil spot to lower back of stapled soft cover. Anthology of modern poetry/verse. First published 1956; this is a reprint of 1981. Compiled by Peruvian poet and essayist Xavier Abril de Vivero (1905 - 1990) with commentaries.

Madrid, Spain: Alianza, 1990. First Editon, 2nd Printing of 1999 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Spanish Language text. Anthology of poetry of Spanish prize-winning poet Hierro Real ( 1922 - 2002 ), known as José Hierro or Pepe Hierro. Eloquent and representative voice of the first generation of the postwar period in the so-called uprooted, existential poetry often published in the magazines Espadaña and Garcilaso. 183 pgs.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Liberia Hachette, 1944. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Leather. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/None (As Issued?). COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus. Gift inscription from author dated 1944 to 2nd fEP. Text/NEW. Embossed, black leather boards/VG w/rubs to leading edges. DJ/None (as Issued?) Marblelized upper text edge & endpapers. Anthology of French poetry translated into Spanish. Seleccion y traduccion en verso con opiniones, notas y noticias bibliograficas por Edmundo Bianchi of Uruguay. 549 pages plus Index of poets to rear.

Indianapolis New York: The Library of Liberal Arts - Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. First Printing . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8" Tall. In 1595, almost ten years after Sidney's death, An Apology for Poetry was published in two different editions, with two different titles. For this edition I have selected the version published by Henry Olney ... Between Olney's text and its rival, The Defense of Poesy, published by William Ponsonby, there are numerous minor variations. When such variants improve the sense I have incorporated them into the text and added a note pointing out the addition. And when they offer interesting alternatives I have included them in the notes." [Note on the Text] Also consulted was the "recently discovered" Norwich MS. 95 pages, with Index; plus xxviii pages prefatory matter. Covers show very slight shelf-use; text is clean and strong.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Munsinger, Lynn (Illustrator). EX-LIB; uncirculated copy. Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated beige linen boards/NF. DJ/NF; under library mylar. An "arkful" of poetic delights for the young. Selected by noted author & poet of light verse, William Rossa Cole (1919 - 2000). Songs of elephants, kangaroos; birdlife, owls (Chinese common name "Eagle w/a Cat's Head) & kangaroos. Parkful of squirrels & pigeons; barkful of dogs & hyenas; and sharkfuls of sea life. Poem from Shel Silverstein reads: "The pie is gone --- let's blame it on/the naughty hippopotamus/And spank him well --- if we can tell /exactly where his bottom is". And from Marchette Chute: "My goldfish swim like bits of light/Silver and red and gold and white/They flick their tails for joy, and then/They swim around the bowl again. A collection offering a larkful of joy!

New York, NY: Scholastic, 1965. First Edition, 8th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Grisha Dotzenko (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & Collectible. Copy inserted in in illustrated album cover for book (Scholastic TX-651) and accompanying 33 1/2 record containing 14 poems from the anthology read by Jordan Charney & Jean Richards. The anthology itself is arranged in 7 parts: 1, Wishes & Feelings; 2, Creatures Large; 3, Creatures Small; 4, Weather Moods; 5, Town & City Moments; 6, Long Ago; and, 7, From Season to Season.

[Columbus]: Ohio State University Press, 1962. Black Linen. Near Fine/Very Good. 8 3/4" Tall. Among the poets discussed in these pages are Poe (by Charvat); Whitman (by Felheim); Pound (by the editor); Frost (by Simpson); Anderson (by Rideout); Hart Crane (by Van Nostrand); Stevens (by Ellmann); Auden (by McDowell); Tate (by Squires); and the Agrarians (by Douglas). 335 pages (+ vi + 5 unnumbered), with a Bibliography of Howard Mumford Jones. Dustjacket shows some discoloration; boards are clean and sound; name of prior owner inked on front endpaper; text is clean and strong.

Seamas Navarro/Self Published, 2005. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Stapled. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Author signed to front cover. Anthology of 14 poems by new-era beat poet Seamas Navarro written between the year 2000 through 2005. In the leading poem titled "A Truth", the opening lines are: "I am a poet-street performer/ and a street-performer poet is me/ .../ I travel nation wide/ living hand to mouth". In an interview from Sante Fe New Mexican (March, 2014), Navarro confirmed he's been bumming rides or riding buses from town to town across the country, for a decade or so, peddling printed copies of his verse for five dollars ... likely how this copy came to be preserved in Berkeley, California. A wandering bard.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 1959. Printed Gray Linen. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gray linen boards/VG; strong w/soil spots to spine, small losses to front/back spine edges, and showing light discoloration. Volume in the publisher's distinguished Gesammelte Werke. Condensed contents of the miscelleny are: 1, Buch der Freunde; 2, Tagebuchblatt; 3, Aus einem ungedruckten Buch; 4, Aufzeichnungen und Tagebucher aus dem Nachlass from 1890 to 1929, including Nicht das Leuchtende ..., and Die Tanzerin ...; 5, Ad me ipsum; 6, Andenken Eberhard von Bodenhausens; 7, Briefe und Aufsatze fur amerikanische Zeitschriften; 8, Entwurfe; and 9, Briefe und Beitrage. 582 pages, with Anmerkungen, Bibliographie, and Nachwort des Herausgebers; plus 2 unnumbered pages, Inhalt. Strong copy despite flaws.

Chicago, IL: The Book Supply Company, 1924. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Strong & sound w/light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text & leading edges. Maroon boards/NF w/light rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. Gift inscription to fEP, Pomona CA, 1924, from a certain Walter Kreisler --- salesman from the author's car dealership? Collection of light verse. Elsbery W. Reynolds (1868 -) ... in his own words : " ... the Studebaker "ad" writer/Will make the burdens of your life seem lighter" . Missouri-born but very much part of Pomona, California, Reynolds was ad writer, car dealer with true devotion to the Studebaker, and owner of the publishing house that issued this book. The last stanza of Watch for the Thief (pg 128) reads: "Procrastination can not claim/ To help you on to worthy gain/ Don't let yourself be a mistaker/ By putting off a Studebaker". He also authored the biography of popular novelist Harold Bell… Read More

Munchen, Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1998. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Quint Buchholz (Illustrator). BRAND NEW COPY. German language text. Delightful, humorous verse narration of why it is, despite snow & ice, penguins find the South Pole a "hot place to be". For instance a visit from an opera ship from Vienna, and are treated to gala performances from three outstanding tenors! One just never knows --- perhaps that is why penguins know patience pays and are always on the ready, dressed in tails with legs tucked in. Book has been translated into English by Aubrey M. Woolman under the title: "Some Folk Think the South Pole's Hot: The Three Tenors Play the Artic.

New York, NY: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition, 6th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Maurice Sendak (Illustrator). EX-LIB. UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW w/folded corner to pg 14. Brown linen boards/NF. DJ/NF; under library mylar. Once there was a little brown bat who kept waking up during day, and was therefore able to see, hear, and smell the wonders of world denied to his fellow bats who knew only the world at night. This is a book of poems, descriptions, and musings on chipmunks, blue jays and cardinals, chickadees and sparrows populating the lit by a sun shinning like "a million moons", written the little bat for his brethren. Pen & ink illustrations from Maurice Sendak.

Harmondsworth, UK: Frederick Warne/Penguin Group, 1984. First Edition, 2nd Impression . Hardcover. New/New. Beatrix Potter (Author-Illustrator). BRAND NEW COPY. Verse. Anthology. Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) whose 23 books comprising The Tale of Peter Rabbit collection celebrates a tranquil British country life tales interwoven with traditonal and her own verse and riddles. This volume is an assembly of most of the rhymes included, and had hoped to include, in her stories. A delight.