8 POEMS
Early limited edition chapbook from the Pulitzer-winning poet, inscribed (and annotated) to friend and fellow poet Stuart Dischell.
Early limited edition chapbook from the Pulitzer-winning poet, inscribed (and annotated) to friend and fellow poet Stuart Dischell.
Uncommon hardcover issue of the first edition of this verse collection from the Pulitzer-winning poet, inscribed to friend and fellow poet Stuart Dischell — with an additional holograph poem laid in.
First edition of Gilbert's debut, the uncommon hardcover issue.
Signed first edition of the book that concludes THE DREAM SONGS, HIS TOY, HIS DREAM, HIS REST won Berryman both the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize.
Touching Typed Letter Signed sent to Pulitzer-winning feminist poet Adrienne Rich, describing the memorial services for James Merrill, which Rich could not attend.
First printing, association copy of an early Wright book, inscribed to fellow Pulitzer Prize winner, Charles Simic.
First edition of this infamous poetic hoax directed at the experimental "isms" championed by Ezra Pound — inscribed by Witter Bynner to Karl Shapiro.
Signed first edition of the final book published within Berryman's lifetime, it is difficult to find signed in its trade edition. Scarce thus.
Signed first edition, a review copy, of this collection of poetry that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Inscribed first edition of Bidart's debut collection, containing arguably his most famous poem, the chilling "Herbert White" — a terrific association copy inscribed to the book's editor and designer.
First edition of the first book of poetry by this Pulitzer-winning American poet.
Scarce first edition of Reznikoff's poetry collection, the final publication from The Objectivist Press.
Inscribed first trade edition and publisher's proof of Stephen Berg's meditations on the work of Russian poet Anna Akhnatova, with Stanley Plumley's notes to rear.
Signed first edition of the poet's third collection of verse — Kenyon's signature is increasingly uncommon.
First complete edition of Zukofsky's magnum opus, one of the monuments of 20th century poetry. Finished shortly after the poet's death, it remains scarce in this edition.
Signed first printing of Olga Broumas's first collection of poetry, a celebration of lesbian eroticism that blazed a trail for future poets – in the scarce hardcover issue.
First edition thus of this parallel text translation of Sabines's poems, warmly inscribed by translator Philip Levine to contemporary American poet Stanley Plumly.
Very attractive first edition of Snodgrass's first book, what Robert Lowell called, "a breakthrough for modern poetry."
First edition of this collection of Moore's poems and prose works, written between 1957 and 1966.
First edition thus of this collection of sonnets by the poet and psychiatrist, originally printed in other publications including "New Directions in Prose and Poetry" (1937) — a very early New Directions publication.
First edition of Blakmur's third collection of poems, number 57 of 270 copies.
Inscribed first edition of this attractive volume from the noted writer and professor of African American studies from the National Poetry Series.
Scarce limited edition chapbook containing di Prima's and Matson's poetic reponses to the 2001 attacks on and by the United States; both works also appeared in the antiwar anthology AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND.
Handsome first printing of this investigation of US poetry's imminent doom, an association copy inscribed by the author to poet Stanley Plumly (to whom Holden devotes several pages), and with Plumly's own critical annotations ("nonsense") throughout.
First edition of Merrill's first regularly published book, after a very rare collection self-published by his father. One of the most auspicious debuts of the second half of the century, one that lived up to its promise.