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MINNESOTA GOTHIC.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1992. First edition - A title in the "Seeing Double" series of collaborative books: in this case the collaboration is between a poet and a photographer. ISBN: 0-915943840.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff glossy wrappers (as new but with remainder dot).
Book ID: 86845More details Price: $18.50 -
EMPTY SWINGS: Haiku in English Series.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Minneapolis: The Nodin Press, (1967). First edition - An early and uncommon book by this enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Japanese calligraphy by Haruko Isobe. Unpaginated.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers - previous owner's name stamped in book, and a handwritten note about finding this treasure and letting it go, because treasures are meant to be shared.
Book ID: 86946More details Price: $16.50 -
BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW FALL 1987, Volume 14 Number 1, with the chapbook PO MAN'S HEART DISEASE.
Edition: First printing.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1987. First edition - A literary journal containing fiction, poetry, reviews and essays, named for the river that borders the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. This was the first issue to include a chapbook, printed on different color paper and bound in at the center - Michael S. Harper's Po man's heart disease. Also includes contributions from Linda Hogan, Eileen Drew, Billy Collins, Andre Dubus and more. Illustrated, notes on contributors, ads. 118 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (a clean copy but with some rubbing to the covers)
Book ID: 81252More details Price: $25.00 -
CITIES AND TOWNS: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1996). First edition - His third collection of poetry, winner of the Juniper Prize. 73 pp plus notes. ISBN: 1558490213.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59350More details Price: $18.00 -
TWENTIETH CENTURY WOMEN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1988. First edition - His second book of poetry, with comments on the back cover from John Ashbery and Gerald Stern. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-8203-09966.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 21848More details Price: $12.00 -
![PLOUGHSHARES: REGRETS ONLY: VOLUME 20, #4, Winter 1994-1995. by [Voisine, Connie, signed] Lee, Don & David Daniel, editors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/44485---200.jpg?v=1519363057)
PLOUGHSHARES: REGRETS ONLY: VOLUME 20, #4, Winter 1994-1995.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Emerson College, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Includes stories and poems by Stephen Dobyns, Gish Jen, Elizabeth GIlbert, David Rivard, James Duffy, Tony Hoagland, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Maurya Simon, Melissa Monroe and others. SIGNED by Connie Voisine at her first poem "Hot." Book reviews, notes on contributors. Index to Volume XX. 220 pp plus ads. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-933277-121.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44485More details Price: $20.00 -
POEMS FOR PREGNANT LADIES.
Edition: Limited, signed edition.
Olympia, WA: Tierra Madre Press, 1978. First edition - A slim chapbook of poems celebrating women and pregnancy, written while author was herself pregnant. #33 of 111 copies, hand-set and printed in 18pt Piranese, numbered and SIGNED by the author. In addition, the poet has INSCRIBED this with a small drawing, on the page facing the colophon. Photograph. Hand tied, unpaginated.
Condition: Very good in illustrated light grey wrappers (some fading and sunning to the covers).
Book ID: 35608More details Price: $20.00 -
EMPTY SLEEVES.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of poems which stand "at the interval between the real and the surreal, between the earthly and the eternal." A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series edited by Bin Ramke. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Debora Greger. ISBN: 0-820312797.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 87992More details Price: $18.50 -
ARIEL'S GIFT: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of "Birthday Letters."
Edition: First US printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1998, twenty-five years after Plath's suicide, Ted Hughes published "Birthday Letters," a cycle of poems addressed to his Plath, his first wife. Without casting blame, this book explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings - she shows the events that shaped the "Birthday Letters" and also how they drew upon Plath's own work. Includes references, bibliography, a general index and an index to the works of Hughes and Plath cited in the book. Illustrated by photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-393323013.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84907More details Price: $20.00 -
A MAP OF THE NIGHT: Poems.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, (2008). A title in the Illinois Poetry Series. 143 pp. ISBN: 978-0252075674.
Condition: Good overall - marginal notations, some underlining and check marks.
Book ID: 84650More details Price: $13.50 -
DRY SUN, DRY WIND; DRY SUN, DRY WIND.
Edition: First printing.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1953. Hardcover first edition - His first collection of poetry. The third title in the Indiana University Poetry series.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth, no dj.
Book ID: 24915More details Price: $24.50 -
QUIET WATERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1921. dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon collection of poems, including a group of sonnets, by this prolific American poet. Introduction by Edwin Markham and dust jacket praise by Arthur Symons and George Moore. 122 pp.
Condition: Very good in pale grey boards in a good example of the rather scarce dust jacket (toning to spine of dj, chip to lower edge of back cover)
Book ID: 79683More details Price: $40.00 -
WILDTRACK.
Edition: First edition.
London: Macmillan, 1965. Hardcover first edition - A long, wide-ranging single poem on the theme of human interdependence.
Condition: F/NF (pc, one closed tear.)
Book ID: 4354More details Price: $30.00 -
VIRTUOSO LITERATURE FOR TWO AND FOUR HANDS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new poems. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-385-005326.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (light remainder spray, some rubbing to the dj, but a tight clean copy overall.)
Book ID: 9902More details Price: $21.00 -
THE BUTCHER'S APRON: New & Selected Poems Including 'Greed: Part 14.'
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with a small limited hardcover edition.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First edition - A delightful and very accessible collection of her poems, with the selection centering on the themes of harvesting, purchasing, preparation, and enjoyment of food. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-574231448.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38058More details Price: $18.00 -
WAITING FOR THE KING OF SPAIN.
Edition: Trade paperback (3rd printing)
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. A collection of very accessible and enjoyable poems, mostly longer and narrative in tone, arranged in six sections. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-876852932.
Condition: Fine in cream decorated wrappers.
Book ID: 80625More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MAN WHO SHOOK HANDS.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems, "poignant, provocative and personal," by this award winning California writer. SIGNED on the front endpaper with a tiny doodle. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-38513407X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket.(tear to back cover of dj, chipping along the top edge and other wear)
Book ID: 65860More details Price: $25.00 -
THE ARKANSAS TESTAMENT.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). Collection of poems, set both in his native Caribbean and "elsewhere." 117 pp. ISBN: 0-37452099.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (check marks on several lines of the first poem.)
Book ID: 41636More details Price: $11.50 -
THE BOUNTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54916More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BOUNTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 13675More details Price: $20.00 -
THE ARKANSAS TESTAMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poems by this Nobel laureate, set both in his native Caribbean - "there" - and "elsewhere" including the final, long title poem, a meditation on race and American history. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105820.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69528More details Price: $28.50 -
OMEROS
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (c 1990). Epic poem by Nobel winning author. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-374-523503.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69779More details Price: $14.50 -
IN THE ROOM OF NEVER GRIEVE: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2003.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A substantial collection of her work from Fast Talking Woman on - includes a companion audio CD. INSCRIBED by Waldman on the title page "For -- dear courageous auntie, with love" and dated in April 2005. Illustrated with photographs. iv, 491 pp. ISBN: 1566891450.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. CD pocket unopened. A large and heavy book.
Book ID: 72620More details Price: $45.00 -
IN THE ROOM OF NEVER GRIEVE: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2003.
Edition: First printing.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A substantial collection of her work from Fast Talking Woman on - includes a companion audio CD. Illustrated with photographs. iv, 491 pp. ISBN: 1566891450.
Condition: Ex-library but with almost no markings and overall tight and clean in a fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 57124More details Price: $24.50 -
THE ANGEL HAIR ANTHOLOGY: Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon and especially so in hardcover and signed.
Book ID: 57647More details Price: $250.00 -
A POINT IS THAT WHICH HAS NO PART.
Edition: First printing.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second collection of poems and prose-poems, winner of the 1999 Iowa Poetry Prize and of James Laughlin Award Edition for the Academy of American Poets in 2000. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-877457514.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 39339More details Price: $18.00 -
GOOD NIGHT WILLIE LEE, I'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Dial Press, (1979.). First edition - Collection of poetry by the author of 'The Color Purple.' 53 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-30527.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name, that of poet Elizabeth Harrod.)
Book ID: 41931More details Price: $30.00 -
ABSOLUTE TRUST IN THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH: New Poems.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Random House, (2003) dj. Hardcover - Poems written in the shadowy room in Mexico and in the shadow of current events, including the terrorist attack on 9/11 and the waging of war by the US. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-375-509046.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (gift inscription) .
Book ID: 67488More details Price: $12.50 -
HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's fourth book of poetry. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1421692.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (edgewear and short closed tears to dj.)
Book ID: 87231More details Price: $21.50 -
HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's fourth book of poetry. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-151421692.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (line on bottom edge, price-clipped, chip to rear cover of dj, short closed tears.)
Book ID: 89261More details Price: $16.50
![PLOUGHSHARES: REGRETS ONLY: VOLUME 20, #4, Winter 1994-1995. by [Voisine, Connie, signed] Lee, Don & David Daniel, editors.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/44485---800.jpg?v=1519363057)
