Poetry from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Calais, VT: Z Press. Near Fine. 2000. Limited Edition. Softcover. Small light stain at the tail corner of the front cover and it's corresponding French flap. Similar light stain to the tail corner of the back cover.; This is a single poem of disjointed, yet flowing phrases, widely-spaced, and to be read in a linear fashion. Author Jeff Clark is… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Surrealistisch Kabinet. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. Wear and creasing to all edges of the wraps. Diagonal, light crease to the back. Tiny white spot to front.; This is Ted Joans' (1928-2003) 12-line poem The Truth, which he occasionally titled The Poet in readings. In this book, the composition of the poem's lines differs significantly from Joans' original composition… Read more about this item

Hitchen Herts, England: The Red Gull Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. Special Limited Edition. Softcover. Consistent with other examples, the wraps of the specially bound book are shallowly wrinkled front and back where the paper frames and labels have contracted, likely when drying.; These verses are excerpted from the classic "Laila and Majnun" story of mystical, devotional… Read more about this item

Calais, VT: Z Press. Fine. 1999. Limited Edition. Softcover. A single poem, oblique and confounding, perhaps meant to evoke a vision or dream, rather than a literal interpretation. This is one of John Ashbery's lesser-known individual poems. Ashbery (1927-2017) was poet laureate of New York State, 2001-2003, and the only poet to win The Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and… Read more about this item

Providence, RI: Burning Deck. Very Good+. 1979. Limited/Numbered Hors Commerce Edition. Softcover. Tiny wear at corners, scratch and light, short crease to back.; Six of Kenward Elmslie's (1929-1922) innovative, eclectic, challenging poems: Night Thought (for Joe Brainard), Stance, Four Doors, Communications Equipment, Olden Scrapple Sonnet (for Bernadette Mayer), and Nytol. Elmslie was a multi-talented author, librettist, performer, and Editor and… Read more about this item

Calais, VT: Z Press. Fine. 1999. Limited Edition. Softcover. Jagged and surreal, this is a single poem by Barbara Guest, poet prominent of the New York School. She drew inspiration from fine artists, and this is an artistic collaboration with painter Trevor Winkfield, brought about by publisher Kenward Elmslie. Tipped in, facing the poem, is a polychrome reproduction of a… Read more about this item

New York: The Spiral Press. Fine. 1962. Brochure. One of the various little booklets printed by The Spiral Press, this copy is a Christmas keepsake with an additional preliminary page, printed thus: "Greetings / Christmas / 1962 / From Robert Frost". This was Frost's short poem about the push and pull of nature, and mystic belief vs. science. "In other… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Cranium Press. Fine. 1976. Limited Edition. Softcover. Keith Abbott's wide-ranging poem that bounces through successive observations about himself and life. Boldly inscribed by Abbott to Kenward Elmslie, on the front endpaper in elaborate calligraphic script using a chisel-point pen. "The Ken- / ward / Elmslie / Copy / (a calligraphic flourish) / Keith" Provenance: From the library and… Read more about this item

West Branch (Iowa): Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1983. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Softcover. Faint, small scuffing to the matte finished wraps.; This collaboration between author and artist has five short, non-rhyming poems by Ron Padgett, each with a facing page having an utterly quirky illustration by Trevor Winkfield. Yes, woodpeckers and woodpecker society are occasionally involved. This is… Read more about this item

Bolinas, California: Angel Hair Books. Very Good-. 1970. Limited Edition. Softcover. Wraps toned and soiled, as so many are with this edition. Some toned offsetting from an adjacent book. A bit of wave to the head edge of the front.; Thirty-five minimalist, idiosyncratic, freely-constructed poems of experimental technique. Most are terse, some are brief prose poetry, all are non-rhyming, and… Read more about this item

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seven, tiny poems, each creating a scenario for a mystery. Example: "You return to / your bedroom / visibly shaken / as you turn down / the covers a cobra / leaps for your throat / paralyzed you collapse // you are no longer suspect". Each is… Read more about this item

Rosendale, NY: Hunger Press. Near Fine. 2000. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seventy-eight short poems, some as short as a single line and thus begging the question 'what is poetry?' Some surreal, some straightforward, all juxtaposed and unrelated, and all representative of Clayton Eshleman's free verse style. Written in 1986-2000 when the poet was Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Very Good+. 1970. Broadside. Some broadsides have very light, shallow creasing from handling. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY: CreateSpace Publishing. Fine. 2016. Softcover. Poems, hymns, and chants celebrating Pagan views of life, earth, and nature. Fifty-three works are grouped under these Chapters: Samhain, Yule, Imbolic, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Goddess and God, and Various. Author signed "Lorelei" in green ink on the title page. The author lives in Maine and had… Read more about this item

Northridge, CA: Invierno Press [Laguna Verde Imprenta of Ward Ritchie]. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. A wide-ranging, sometimes surreal poem of human activity, our place in the universe, the future, and the Cyclops that translates it all for humanity. "Cyclops" is a metaphor for the "eye" logo of CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the poem was… Read more about this item

Madison, NJ: Brayers Club. Near Fine. (1947). Limited Edition. Softcover. Tiny nicks to the head edge of the front wrap.; This tiny book contains a facsimile of the holograph manuscript of Wood Flower, a 2-verse poem by Richard Le Gallienne. The narrator finds a flower growing in the woods and wishes to pluck it. Comparing the flower… Read more about this item

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. The front board has some splay, as many, if not most, copies do.; Twelve previously unpublished "translations" of poems by other poets, selected by Dickey and each rewritten by him as an homage and to add his unique perspective to the retelling.… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Lacks the elusive dust jacket. Rubbing to edges, corners, hinges, and spine ends. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. The front endpaper has a small abrasion, possibly from sticker removal. Pastedowns and endpapers lightly toned.; Tannhäuser, the full title being Tannhäuser and the… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Tiny dent to the tail of the rear board. Pinpoint dot to the tail of the front board. Publisher's clear acetate wrapper is scuffed, with a tiny chip at the spine head.; Clayton Eshleman (1935-2021) was a widely acclaimed poet, literary… Read more about this item

New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Second Printing. Hardcover. Spine ends bumped, wear to tail spine end and corners, paper worn through at corners, overall light soil to paper covers. Lacks the dust jacket.; Fifteen poems of the "jazz" of living in Chicago and New York City, the poems intended to be… Read more about this item