New York, NY, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1975. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Very memorable. Ondaatje has dealt imaginatively with those moments of Billy's life, or those aspects of his legend, that particularly gripped him. His triumph is that he makes them grip us." (Larry McMurtry, back cover review). The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a verse novel by Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist & author of The..... More

Buffalo, NY: Credences, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. “Your flesh moves under my fingers / and I remember flesh and fingers, as a child holding / the head of a flashlight cupped in my fist / in a dark room, seeing with such delight / the outlines of my own hand’s / lucent skeleton, swathed in the red glow / of the blood clouded within / and this is how I...... More

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1990. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. This number of the prestigious literary journal features the poem "Way of Life" by the canonical American poet John Ashbery (also a contributing editor of this issue), part of a large special section entitled "33 Contemporary American Poets." Also included in this section is a lengthy travelogue-historical prose poem by Peter Cole, "One to Bet: A Jerusalem Pamphlet," featuring photographs taken..... More