New York: Harper & Row, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - His first collection of essays, written over a period of forty years, which discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of twelve poets (mostly male, mostly white), including James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, Etheridge Knight, John Logan, Louis Simpson and Donald Hall. INSCRIBED on the title page. Index. xvii, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-060162651.

New York: Norton, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant selection of poems from over 60 years of writing by this award-winning poet who was "influenced by Emerson and Thoreau, inspired by spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism." Includes eight new poems from 2012-2013. Index. xxii, 378 pp. ISBN: 978-0393240078.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977). First edition - A collection of prose poems, illustrated with drawings by Gendron Jensen. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-060104147.

Brockport, NY: BOA Editions Limited, (1993.). First edition - A collection of poems either dedicated to - or about - poets including Wallace Stevens, William Stafford, James Wright, William Carlos Williams and others. Frontispiece by Robert Marx. No. 8 in the BOA Pamphlets Series. One of an edition of 1500 copies, 1390 in wrappers. 21 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 1880238012.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1929. First edition - Second collection of poetry by this former coal miner: according to his introduction, when his first book was published some good people helped him get out of the pit - but there are many men still working and suffering there. 76 pages, plus 4 pages of ads.

New York: Noonday Press, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to gathering together all of the published poems which Bogan 'wishes preserved' this volume includes several previously unpublished poems.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1968). A selection of her poems spanning 45 years. 136 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1937. dj. Hardcover first edition - Bogan's third book of poems, and quite uncommon. 42 pp.

New York: Noonday Press, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to gathering together all of the published poems which Bogan 'wishes preserved' this volume includes several previously unpublished poems.

New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the poems from the first 5 collections of this Irish born writer, with some revisions bu t 'not many' according to her introduction. Index of first lines. 204 pages. ISBN: 0-393-038521.

London: Chatto and WIndus / Hogarth Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects thirteen poems by this Scottish poet, journalist and saxophonist, including the long poem 'The Tomb of David Hume.' A title in the Phoenix Living Poets series. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-701114851.

Coos Bay, OR: B&B Publishing. (1991). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems by this Oregon writer, each illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. SIGNED on the title page with the words "best wishes" and dated in 1996. 84 pp. ISBN: 1-885813031.

New York: The Viking Press, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fifth collection, 50 poems, many of which are inspired by the work of photographers, and all sharing a concern with what we see and how we see it. 84 pp. ISBN: 0-670-143103.

NY & London: The Free Press. (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was also a great talker as well as a writer. These interviews, recorded over a period of more than 15 years, starting in 1978, in Brodsky's Greenwich Village apartment, recount his childhood in war-torn Leningrad, his life as an underground poet, standing trial in Kruschev's Russia, imprisonment in the icy north his expulsion from the Soviet Union and more. Photography by Mariana Volkov. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Photographs. 306 pp with notes and index. ISBN: 02982450.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The most substantial collection of his poems to be published in the US - a bilingual (Spanish and English) edition which includes 200 poems from 14 books from 14 books covering his entire writing career. Includes some poems which had never before appeared in English translation. Edited by Alexander Coleman and translated from the Spanish by Willis Barnstone, Alexander Coleman, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, Kenneth Krabbenhoft, Eric McHenry, W.S.Merwin, Alastair Reid, Hoyt Rogers, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Alan S. Trueblood and John Updike. 477 pp. ISBN: 0-670-849413.

Housatonic, MA & New York: Lascaux Publishers / Grove Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wide-ranging conversations with this great Argentinian writee on topics ranging from Borges life and work to books, poetry, the detective story, the tango, the Kaballah, and more, translated by Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Willias Barnstone and Noemi Escandell. Includes a selection of poems translated by Willis Barnstone, Jorge Luis Borges and Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Frontispiece illustration by Roberto Paez, photographs by Willis Barnstone. A title in the Altamira Inter-American series. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-39453879X.

Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1975). First edition - His first book, a 30 poem sequence about the famous chief of the Sauk and Fox tribe (the tribe to which his great grandmother belonged), poems which examine Black Hawk's transformation from boy to warrior to chief to defeated, embittered old man, a prisoner of the whites. Praise from Michael Harper and Dee Brown, among others. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-252005287.

New York: Brooklyn Arts Press, (2016). A powerful collection by this poet whose writing Eileen Myles has described as "violent, perverse, and tender in its portrayal of American and global horror." Winner of the 2016 National Book Awar for poetry. 89 pp. ISBN: 978-1936767465.

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. First edition - Her first collection of poems and short prose pieces, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-876858841.

n.p. [Los Angeles:] [The Symposium Press,] n.d. [1988.]. SIGNED first edition - A slightly oversized chapbook containing one long poem. Cover photo of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon by Paul Logsdon. SIGNED inside the rear cover.While Bowers published relatively few poems during a long career, in his obituary Arthur Mortenson comments that "there are few, if any, American poets in the last fifty years who have produced work of such tender and thoughtful elegance." 8 pp. ISBN: 0-936576146.

Donna, TX: VAO Publishing, (2012). First edition - An anthology of poetry and prose, collecting the work of 39 writers from South Texas. Contributor biographies. 232 pp. Striking wraparound cover art by Noe Vela. ISBN: 978-0615723761.

Saratoga Springs, NY : Pantheon, 1984. First edition - Includes a long play "The World's the World" by Alberto translated from the Italian by Arthur A. Coppotelli, an essay on "Poetry and the National Conscience" by Howard Nemerov , poetry by Adrienne Rich, David Wagoner and more. 112 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Saratoga Springs: Skidmore College, 1994. First edition - Includes essays by Mary Gordon, William Kennedy, Richard Howard and others , poetry by Terese Svoboda, David Weiss and more. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Lowell Boyers. Notes on contributors. 273 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Saratoga : Skidmore College, 1984. First edition - A special issue of Salmagundi magazine devoted entirely to Nadine Gordimer, featuring a conversation with her by Robert Boyers, Clark Blaise and others, and the first appearance of the novella "Something Out There." Includes several articles on Gordimer - Multi-Racism by Stephen Clingman, Masters and Servants by Rowland Smith and more. 196 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition -

Bryon Press, 1966. First edition - Early collection of poetry by novelist and critic Bradbury. Includes 17 poems by Rodway, 16 poems by Bradbury. 48 pp. Uncommon.

Washington, D.C.: Printing House of Judd & Detweiler, (1949.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A single long poem on the life of Jesus in a lovely edition, 'designed and directed by Lester Douglas, printed under the supervision of John H. Davis at the Printing House of Judd & Detweiler. . . lettering by Cal Hoke. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1960. Slim volume - unpaginated leaves (32 pp.)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Hardcover first edition - Author's second collection of poetry - his first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1985, and he was also the recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets award.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third collection of poetry - his first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1985, and he was also the recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets award. INSCRIBED on the title page " For --- I swear the photo makes things look worse than are. You never get older, except for the mirror" and dated in 1997. Laid in is a 2 page signed holographic letter, rather tongue in cheek in style, and discussing in part the publishing project he was currently engaged in ("make that embroiled") . 69 pp. ISBN: 0-679446206.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third collection of poetry - his first book won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1985, and he was also the recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets award. 69 pp. ISBN: 0-679446206.