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KILLING FLOOR
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry, and the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1978 - poems which range across history and geography to give voice to many - from Trotsky in the title poem, to the Japanese writers Mishima and Kawabata to Marilyn Monroe. Ai described herself as half Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-395-275938.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dj (price-clipped, faint 'ring' on cover of dj, 1 short closed tear)
Book ID: 91114More details Price: $35.00 -
THE RIVER OF HEAVEN: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book of poems by this writer - born in Hawaii of Japanese ancestry and educated in California. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1987. Cover praise from Maxine Hong Kingston. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 67 pp. ISBN: 0-394-568435.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59926More details Price: $30.00 -
THE RIVER OF HEAVEN: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book of poems by this writer - born in Hawaii of Japanese ancestry and educated in California. SIGNED on the title page. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1987. Cover praise from Maxine Hong Kingston. 67 pp. ISBN: 0-394-568435.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60104More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CITY IN WHICH I LOVE YOU.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Brockport, New York: BOA Editions, 1990. Lamont Poetry Selection for 1990. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, after his parents were forced to flee China, Lee came to the United States at the age of 6. This is his second collection of poems. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-918526-833.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).
Book ID: 80236More details Price: $11.50
