New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "From one of our most celebrated poets- winner of two National Book Awards and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle- an extraordinary memoir that has dictated its own thrust and shape. Philip Levine's The Bread of Time is an amalgam of celebration and quest. It celebrates the poets who were his teachers- particularly John Berryman and Yvor..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Philip Levine to Laurence Goldstein. "Philip Levine's new collection of poems...is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph." (from front flap)..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Describing the poem from which his new book...takes its title, Philip Levine says it is about "an unsung living man who shares the name and much of the fierce spirit of independence and originality of his namesake." This poem is one of twenty in a book "the obsessions of which are the way we work and don't work..... More

New York, NY, USA: Daniel Roberts Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. "...how strange, when all I | remember | of any night is | saying goodbye at the | door | with: 'don't leave | anything here so you | don't have to | come back'" (last stanza, "The Interviewers," pg. 10). This first number of the dignified literary journal edited by Daniel Roberts features two classic Charles..... More

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1986. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1986 number of the venerable academic journal features essays & articles on Beat-related poets Charles Olson, Kenneth Rexroth & William Carlos Williams, as well as Philip Levine, Ezra Pound & James Wright. With reviews of critical studies of the works of Emily Dickinson & Pound. Another important scholarly collectible in very fine condition, with only a few very..... More

Los Angeles, CA: The Writers' Program, Department of the Arts, UCLA Extension, 1989-1991. First Printings. Softcovers. Issue 2 signed by poet Diane Wakoski at her contribution. The first four numbers of the literary journal published by the prestigious Writers' Program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Many of the contributors studied at the Program or otherwise as graduate students at the University. Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1989, features an..... More