New York, NY, USA: William Morrow and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed note in card envelope included. Diane Ackerman (b. 1948) is described as a poet, essayist, and naturalist with seven volumes of poetry and fifteen nonfiction books published since 1976, and her subjects have varied far and wide with whatever peaks her intellectual or creative curiosity. Lady Faustus is her third volume of poetry, and the poems here..... More

Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1996. First Softcover Edition. "The spiders appeared suddenly | after that summer rainstorm. | Some people still insist the spiders fell with the rain | while others believe the spiders are from the damp soil like weeds | with eight thin roots. | The elders knew the spiders | carried stories in their stomachs..." (excerpt from title poem, pg. 12). Today we offer The Summer..... More

Berkeley, CA, USA: Wesley B. Tanner, 1988. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. “As I thought of her I fell asleep and a marvellous vision appeared to me. In my room I seemed to see a cloud the colour of fire, and in the cloud a lordly figure, frightening to behold, yet in himself, it seemed to me, he was filled with a marvellous joy.” (lines 12-15) Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), often referred..... More

New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. “It wasn’t just the war. Or wearing a little officer’s uniform, / the leather strap across my chest / like a seat belt so I wouldn’t hit my head on the future. / My sister turning so red from measles she lit up the dingy / back room where mother siphoned / electricity from the hall fixture. / It wasn’t..... More

New York, NY, USA: HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Yehuda Amichai is widely considered to be the most prominent poet of Israel, and certainly the best known Hebrew poet internationally. A Life of Poetry 1948-1994 is an appropriately comprehensive and timely evaluation of the body of work of one of our most valuable poets in any language. Employing the style and idiom of a post-Modernist- of a twentieth-century artist- and..... More

New York, NY, USA: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. “The Snow Poems is the most recent book of poetry by an author who has been called ‘perhaps the most imaginative, innovative poet writing today.’ Critics and readers alike recognize Ammons’s achievement: in 1973, his Collected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry….The Snow Poems, Ammons’s twelfth book, is a major achievement by a major American poet.”..... More

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2000. Second Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Nin Andrews to Dan Rzicznek. “A series of wry meditations on the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the human and the divine, everyday experience and the limits of bliss, The Book of Orgasms maps the imaginary terrain of the upper realm, the place where euphoria endures. In Nin Andrews’ highly original conception, orgasms..... More

Berkeley, CA: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Jack Foley to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet & noted founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers. There are few, if any widely-known connections between Cornell University in Ithaca, NY — and this, even though several visionary non-Beat authors have taught there to great effect: have been received, warmly by talented students who are eager-to-contribute; by responsive readers, and responsive..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Black Sparrow Press was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1966 by John Martin in order to publish the works of Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) and other avant-garde authors. Black Sparrow holds a legendary position in the history of transgressive, experimental, underground literature. Among its many, many publications, perhaps the most coveted and lauded by poets and readers alike is the beloved..... More

New York, NY, USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "These decibels/ Are a kind of flagellation, an entity of sound/ Into which being enters, and is apart./ Their colors on a warm February day/ Make for masses of inertia, and hips/ Prod out of the violent-seeming into a new kind/ Of demand that stumps the absolute because not new/ In the sense of the next one..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. "Regardless of how poets feel about their youthful attempts at verse, their early poems not only enrich our understanding of their artistic growth, but also reveal much about the nature of literary genius. No other twentieth-century poet has left behind such a wealth of early poetry as did W.H. Auden. By bringing together for the first time all the poems written..... More

Troy, NY, USA: Black Fig Press, 2023. Limited Second Edition; First American Edition. Sewn Sheets. Inscribed, signed, & numbered by Ronald Baatz and publisher Andra Sheinkopf. Ronald Baatz is a notoriously elusive poet who has been featured in literary journals like Wormwood Review alongside other legendary Beat-&-Beyond writers like Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the so-called “poet laureate of American Lowlife,” and Gerald Locklin (1941-2021), the former poetry editor at Chiron Review..... More

Chesterfield, Missouri: Margie, Inc., 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Inscribed and signed by Hadara Bar-Nadav to Dan Rzicznek. "Hadara Bar-Nadav's smart, prize-winning poems do the hard work of revising our stories. The poems see clearly atrocities both domestic and international and reproduce them in brilliant chips of what would be color if it were paint. This poet's tongue cracks open language to project fractured images from our..... More