DESCENDING FIGURE
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, advance uncorrected proof copy, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First edition, review copy with publisher's promotional broadside laid in, of the Nobel-winning author's third book of poetry, a "confrontation with the fragility and risk involved in allowing oneself to love what is passing" (Morris, 6).
First printing, presentation copy, from the author to fellow poet Stanley Plumly — with Plumly's own hand-corrected typescript draft of a speech introducing Levine.
Scarce signed limited hardcover first edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, issued as No. 4 in the Metacom Limited Editions Series.
Inscribed first edition of this collection of poems composed during the same period as THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET, with the controversially suggestive photo of Cisneros on the front cover.
First edition of the Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning authors fourth book of poetry, the title poem addressing "the power of grief to motivate heroic action" (Morris, 50) — not through victory in battle, but through Achilles's love of Patroclus.
Unique association copy first edition of the Polish New Wave poet's early works, inscribed by Robert Hass — thanked in the translator's note — to American poet Stanley Plumly.
First printing of this triangular accordion book of an amorous poem by John Keats, this copy previously owned by the founder of the Miniature Book Society.
Signed limited first edition of this eight-poem collection by the Pulitzer Prize winner.
Limited bilingual edition of Montale's poems, printed in the original Italian with facing English translations by Charles Wright, published in the year of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's death.
Inscribed exhibition catalogue of Fitzpatrick's drawings and poems, with a foreword by director Jonathan Demme.
Signed first edition of this third collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
First US edition of Heaney's poetry collection, whose title poem forms the central narrative section.
Signed limited first edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, issued as No. 4 in the Metacom Limited Editions Series.
Signed limited first edition of these poems by the Pulitzer Prize winner, illustrated by Engelland, a co-founder of the Deerfield Press.
First printing of this facsimile of an 1835 book of French fable poetry, a charming little book.
First US edition of this collection of poems from the first twenty-one years of Heaney's career, chosen by the poet.
Signed limited first edition of Wilbur's 21 illustrated "clerihews for the telephone," useful scripts in verse for recording on the outgoing-message cassette tapes of the answering machines of yore, written for publisher Stuart Wright.
First edition of this posthumously published collection of 50 poems, with an introduction by poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow and literary executor.
First edition of this third collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
Handsome first printings of the two-volume set Library of America comprehensive chronological survey of poetry in the US.
Uncommon limited edition of these collected poems on a shared theme — by two Elizabethan conspirators and two 20th century war criminals, all four condemned to death.
First edition of Milosz's first new book of poetry following his 1980 Nobel Prize.
First printing of Ashbery's own selection of poems from among his ten previously published collections.
First hardcover edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, issued as Volume 28 in Ecco's American Poetry Series.