Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories on poems on the theme of "tribe" edited ad with an introduction by James Welch. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Sherman Alexie at his short story "Flight" and by Alberto Alvaro Rios at his story "Outside Magdalena, Sonora." Also includes contributions from Diane Glancy, Simon Oritz, Scott Momaday, Debra Earling, Charles H. Webb, Thylias Moss, Ophelia Navarro and many others. A profile of James Welch by Don Lee. Book reviews. 220 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: State Street Press, 1981. SIGNED first edition - One of 400 copies, signed on title page by the poet.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - His rather hard-to-find third collection of poems, including some which reflect his interest in comtemporary physics and cosmology (Allen was also the editor of "Science Fiction: The Future" ) 51 pp. ISBN: 0-807111651.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth collection of poems, with several which reflect his interest in comtemporary physics and cosmology (Allen was also the editor of "Science Fiction: The Future" and he begins this book with a quote from Ursula Le Guin's "Left Hand of Darkness." 53 pp. ISBN: 0-807114278.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Percy Graeme Turnbull Lectures originally presented as part of The John Hopkins Poetry Festival in November 1958, edited and with an introduction by Allen. Essays include R.P. Blackmur on Edwin Muir, Yvor Winter on "Poetic Styles, Old and New", Marianne Moore on Dame Edith Sitwell, and Mark Van Doren on Thomas Hardy. Index, 111 pages.

Chicago: Packard and Company, (1946). Hardcover first edition - A guide to critical studies, biographies, essays and other works about Walt Whitman Preface, chronology table, index. Sticker showing 'Hendricks House, New York, as the publisher affixed to the title page. xvii, 560 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of poetry, narrative poems which portray scenes from the lives of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, Ezra Pound, Georgia O'Keefe, Emma Goldman and others, arranged chronologically. Among the poems are Crazy Horse In A Little Flat Place At The Edge, D.W. Griffith Filming The Birth Of A Nation, Bruno Bettelheim At Dachau and others. Notes. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-811209350.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. First edition - Afro-Cuban writer's first book of poems, written in the traditions ofboth Caribbean and African American poetry. Cimarron means runaway slave - the descendants of the cimarrones live in the barrios - ghettos of the US now.

(np) Noh Directions Press, 1970. A collection of poems dealing with both personal issues (the loss of a child by miscarriage) and public ones (the assassination of Martin Luther King.)

Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1964.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes a long dramatic monologue, 'Black Boat,' on the death of 200 African American seamen in the Port Chicago disaster during World War II. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper - "For a long-standing much admired friend, Fred Carpenter, in the hope that he may be interested in the chiaroscura of the last poem in this book." 150 pp.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a long dramatic monologue, 'Black Boat,' on the death of 200 African American seamen in the Port Chicago disaster during World War II. 150 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Very uncommon hardcover edition of the first book by this writer (who spent her earliest years in her parents' native Dominican Republic) to be published by a major press. Since this was issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover, the hardcover printing was very small. The central section of these poems is called 'housekeeping; and reconstruct her experiences as her mother teaches her housewifery skills, there is the underlying irony that 'at 33' Alvarez is not the 'heroine of her mother's stories' for she has neither a house, husband nor children. A title in the Grove Press Poetry Series edited by Robert Pack. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-394-538552.

Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2005. First edition - His second collection of poetry, illustrated by several black and white photographs by the author (who is also a songwriter and musician). Cover praise from Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ai and others. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-893048887.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - the twelfth collection of poetry by this writer who has won both the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-393034467x.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A single long poem by this award-winning writer. This book was the winner of Bollingen Prize for poetry for 1973-1974. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393043886.

New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hardcover reissue of an unusual long poem originally published in 1965. Written on a roll of adding machine tape, the width and length of the paper determined the shape of the poem. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035530.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of more than 150 poems dating from 1973 to 1996 - none of the poems had previously appeared in book form. Ends with the long poem "Summer Place." The title refers to a road in upstate New York. 230 pp. plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-393039587.

New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long narrative poem on garbage - sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful - inspired by the author's drive past a burning mountain of the stuff in Florida on I95. Winner of the National Book Award. and considered one of his best books. 121 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035425.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reissue of Ammon's first book, originally published in very limited numbers in1955 by Dorrance, a "vanity" publisher. This edition includes a long new introduction by Roger Gilbert. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-393064468.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-393014479.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains examples both of Ammons' longer poems and his shorter ones. "The Ridge Farm," which begins the book, and "Tombstones," at its center, are fine longer meditations, while "Motion's Holdings," the concluding section, contains a number of his best new shorter poems. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-393024687.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter lyric poems, most using nature as a motif - although one poem - the slightly longer, and angrier, "The Role of Society in the Artist" stands in contrast to those. It begins "Society sent me this invitation to go to / hell and / delighted not to be overlooked. . " and ends with society "said it liked my unconventional / verses best & I invited society to go to hell." 51 pp. ISBN: 0-393015181.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five of his best longer poems by this award winning writer. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-393012972.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long poem in two sections - "Strip" and "Scat Scan" - by this contemporary master of the form. This is Ammons at his "most original and unrestrained - it leaps from shock to shock, and from radiant epiphany to yet more radiance." (Harold Bloom) 294 pp. ISBN: 0-393040968.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 160 very short poems, spanning his entire career and proving that "brevity is the soul of wit." One seems especially appropriate to today "The burdens of the world / on my back / lighten the world / not a whit while / removing them greatly / decreases my specific / gravity." 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393028704.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The final collection by this award-winning poet. "Begun in 1996 and clearly intended as a unified book, this posthumous gathering splits the difference between Ammons's short and long modes, and retains the virtues of both. Individual poems (each two pages in length) in unrhymed couplets address individual topics . . then add up to a sadder-but-wiser, resigned-yet-cheerful sequence about old age." (Publisher's Weekly) 159 pp,. ISBN: 0-393059529.

Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1956.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in this important series which presents the first book publication of significant collections by young poets, edited and selected and with an introductory essay ("The Poem in the Atomic Age") by John Hall Wheelock. 197 pp.

Austin: University of Texas, (1971). Hardcover first edition - The first publication of this group of 18 poems written by this noted playwright for his wife Gilda from 1952 (two years before they were married) through the year of his death in 1959. Introduction by Laurence G. Avery. One of only 750 copies designed by William R. Holman. Frontispiece drawing of Gilda. 48 pp. plus colophon. First edition (750 copies). Very good in blue cloth.