ZUKOFSKY'S "A": An Introduction
First edition of this critical study and compositional history of Zukofsky's monumental poem.
First edition of this critical study and compositional history of Zukofsky's monumental poem.
First edition of Ashbery's collected Charles Eliot Norton lectures, delivered at Harvard in 1989-89, on poets John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John Wheelwright, Laura Riding, and David Schubert.
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 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.
Limited first edition collection of poems by the great Brazilian poet, inscribed by translator Mark Strand to poet Stanley Plumly.
First edition of Elkin's study of Wright, from the library of contemporary poet Stanley Plumly.
Lovely association copy of the first edition thus of this uncommon parallel text edition of the French author's prose poems, inscribed by co-translator William Matthews to contemporary poet Stanley Plumly.
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.
First edition of Gilbert's debut, the uncommon hardcover issue.
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.
A touching TLS sent to Pulitzer-winning feminist poet Adrienne Rich, describing the memorial services for James Merrill, which Rich could not attend.
Lovely first US edition of this poetry collection, the follow-up to Oswald's acclaimed and prize-winning MEMORIAL.
First edition in English of these poems by the great 20th century Greek poet, written during Ritsos's own years of imprisonment, exile, and seclusion under the Papadopoulos dictatorship.
First edition thus of this parallel text translation of Sabines's poems, warmly inscribed by translator Philip Levine to contemporary American poet Stanley Plumly.
First edition of this collection of love poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
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 thus, Series One and Two of Zukofsky's collected poems, previously published separately by Norton in 1965 and 1966.
First edition of this five-part masque, with musical arrangement by Celia Zukofsky after Handel.
First US edition of the first half of Zukofsky's long poem, initially published by Origin Press in 1959, with an introduction by Robert Creeley.