CRITICAL QUARTERLY (Spring 1964; Volume 6, Number 2)
With an editorial essay on the rising importance of James Baldwin and Sylvia Plath, as well as original poetry by Anne Sexton, Karen Gershon, Ted Hughes, and more.
With an editorial essay on the rising importance of James Baldwin and Sylvia Plath, as well as original poetry by Anne Sexton, Karen Gershon, Ted Hughes, and more.
First edition of the first poetry collection by the future poet laureate of Missouri, published when the author was 12 and hailed by Anne Sexton as a child prodigy and the next Rimbaud.
First printing of Carroll's anthology of new work by Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Kenward Elmslie, Louise Glück, Robert Hass, Gerald Malanga, Ron Padgett, Aram Saroyan, Charles Simic, Julia Vinograd, and 47 others.
Inscribed first edition of this collection from Movement poet Donald Davie, written while he was working as a professor at the University of Essex – with hauntingly stark illustrations by Michael Foreman.
First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in, of the Pulizter- and Nobel-winning poet's first book, published when she was only 25 and already capturing Glück's characteristic mix of symbolic allusion, disciplined expression of anger, and breathtakingly lyrical composition.
First Gorey edition of the first poem from Lear's BOOK OF NONSENSE, the first of two Gorey books using Lear's nonsense verse.
First printing of this critical discussion of modern US and European poetry and its difficulties.
Handsome first printings of the two-volume set Library of America comprehensive chronological survey of poetry in the US.
First US edition of this collection of poems from the first twenty-one years of Heaney's career, chosen by the poet.
Second impression of the distinguished poet's first book.
First US edition of Larkin's third collection of poetry which helped "confirm" (Motion, 343) his reputation both in the UK and the US — the noted poet Stanley Plumly's copy.
First edition, review copy, of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
First edition, paperback issue with review slip (and simultaneous with the hardcover), of the confessional poet's uncommon second book of verse.
First edition of this uncommon selection of poems from Sexton's first two books, published only in the UK.
Review copy of this paperback original, a reprint anthology of selections by the Irish, South African, and American poets.
Signed limited first edition of these privately printed poems by artist, poet, and French Resistance fighter Verdet, illustrated with three fine prints by Jean Lurçat, issued in the year of the artist's death and dedicated to him by the poet.