Boulder, CO: Laocoon Press, 1984. SIGNED first edition - In his foreword, Ginsberg notes that this is an "anthology of poetry, randomly received, found in the mail, handed over after Naropa classes," etc. INSCRIBED Andy Clausen at his poem "Soldiers of Christ" with the note "That's me and my family on the front. The years roll" and dated in 1993. Number 341 of 400 copies numbered by Ginsberg. Quarto. 99 pp

New York: Ecco Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover - A book which grew out of Hass's tenure as US Poet Laureate, when he started a column of one poem a week - this includes the full two years' worth of Hass's choices, from recently published poems to older classics. In addition to the preface of this book, Hass has written a brief introduction to each poem. Index of titles and poets. xi, 210 pp. ISBN: 0-880015667.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology which includes the work of more than 130 poets - from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present - and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Among the poets whose work is included are Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Louise Gluck, Martin Estada, Gary Snyder, Mark Strand and many others. Index. xv. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-15101356X.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology which includes the work of more than 130 poets - from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present - and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Among the poets whose work is included are Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Louise Gluck, Martin Estada, Gary Snyder, Mark Strand and many others. Index. xv. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-15101356X.

New York: Scribner, (1998.). SIGNED - A significant collection of poems, reflecting the diversity of America - Contributors include A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Henri Cole, Thom Gunn, Marilyn Hacker, Andrew Hudgins, Carolyn Kizer, Derek Walcott and many others. SIGNED by TWO poets at their poems: Henri Cole and Billy Collins. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814501.

New York: Scribner, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - Contributors include Margaret Atwood, Jane Cooper, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Carl Philips, Marie Ponsot, Kay Ryan, Jay Wright and many others. David Lehman is the series editor. Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684-801507.

San Francisco: Cassandra Publications, (1974.). First edition - Anthology of 35 San Francisco poets of the early 1970s - contributors include Claude Palmer, Gary Blackman, Claudia Reed, Richard Weinraub, Deborah Simon, Ed Buryn, Lynne Harris and others. 145 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 29th and final volume in this powerful annual anthology series, which included poems from both young, new poets, and those well-established. This volume contains 77 poems by 69 poets including Ted Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Maxine Kumin, Derek Walcott, Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell, David Wagoner, Miller Williams, Linda Gregorson, Daryl Hine and many others. The awards for first through third place went to Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell and Dan Masterson. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-87015-2270.

New York: Orchard Books, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems compiled for young adult readers - "This is a book about place and its importance to us as human creatures. There is much here to see - clusters of street poems, garage poems, farm and ranch poems, mining country poems, poems inspired by Texas, the mountains, the desert, subways, the city, the sea" and a visit to the Anne Frank House. Among the contibutors are Jim Harrison, Tom Clark, Dana Gioia, Mary Oliver, Sandra Hochman, Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Harper Webb, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto and many others. Index of poets and titles. 114 p. ISBN: 0-531087816.

New York: Orchard Books / Franklin Watts, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poems which look at lives - from that of a little girl kidnapped by her father to a boy killed by Comanche Raiders in Texas in 18976, or Sophie Scholl, organizer of a student resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Contributors include Gary Soto, Brenda Hillman, Michael Petit, Gary Young, Garrett Hongo, Robert Pack, Rita Dove, and many others. Index of poets. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-531057577.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, (1996). First edition - An anthology which collects works by 25 young poets (at the time - they were all born after 1940) who have been involved in the revival of rhyme, meter, narrative, and in modern American poetry. The poets include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Dana Gioia, Marilyn Hacker, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Brad Leithauser, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, Wyatt Prunty, Mary Jo Salter and others. Preface by the editors. Notes on contributors, suggestions for further reading. xx, 250 pp. ISBN: 1-885266308.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, (194). First edition - A collection of essays on the work of Ireland's most distinguished poets, Brendan Kennelly, including a biographical portrait and an interview with him. Contributors include Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Ake Persson and Kathleen McCracken. Kennelly has written more than 30 books of verse including the epics Cromwell and The Book of Judas. Bloodaxe Critical Anthologies #2. Notes and an extensive bibliography of works by and about Kennelly. 224 p. ISBN: 1852242760.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An anthology of poems selected for their appeal to young people - includes contributions from William Stafford, Wallace Stevens, John Muir, Al Young, Maxine Kumin, Yvor Winters, Thoreau and many more,. SIGNED on the title page by the editor Nancy Larrick with the words "Don't forget to fly!" Illustrated with photographs. Index of titles, authors and first lines. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-87131-1240.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - "This international anthology of prose and poetry pays tribute to the life of Pablo Neruda and to the legacy of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende, overthrown by a military coup in September 1973. This chorus of voices, which includes more than 140 poets from 27 countries, honors the determination of the Chilean people and affirms the struggle of all people to be free. Among the poets included are Rafael Alberti, Gayl Jones, Robert Hass, Muriel Rukeyser,Joseph Bruchac, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Jara, Andrew Salkey, Ismael Reed and many others. Chronology of Pablo Neruda. and a listing of "Some Dates in Chilean History ." ix, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-807063827.

New York: Macmillan, (1973). First edition - A "unique anthology of short prose fiction by 22 American poets of our time - from John Berryman to Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Jean Garrigue, John Hollander, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice, Carolyn Kizer, Kenneth Koch, John Logan, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Muriel Rukeyser, James Schuyler, Anne Sexton, Jon Swan, May Swenson, Mona Van Duyn, and Richard Wilbur - selected and introduced by New Yorker poetry editor Howard Moss. Notes on contributors. xx, 268 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1973). First edition - A "unique anthology of short prose fiction by 22 American poets of our time - from John Berryman to Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Jean Garrigue, John Hollander, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Justice, Carolyn Kizer, Kenneth Koch, John Logan, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Muriel Rukeyser, James Schuyler, Anne Sexton, Jon Swan, May Swenson, Mona Van Duyn, and Richard Wilbur - selected and introduced by New Yorker poetry editor Howard Moss. Notes on contributors. xx, 268 pp. ISBN: 0-671230824.

McSweeney's, (2007). First edition - A book which brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains - "ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation. Thus D. C. Berman leads to Charles Simic by way of James Tate, and other chains run through Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, Michael Ondaatje, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, C. K. Wright, Dean Young, Yusef Komunyakaa, and dozens more." Includes contributions from Brenda Hillman, Harryette Mullen, Kay Ryan, Jane Hirschfeld, Forrest Hamer and others. Introduction by David Orr. Notes on contributors. x, 211 pp. ISBN: 978-1932416817.

London: Andre Deutsch, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of poems spanning four centuries from Spenser and Shakespeare through Pope, Dryden, Keats, Blake, A.E. Houseman, W. B. Yeats, Christina Rossetti, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mew, and many others.Index of authors and first lines. A small volume. 128 pp.

New York: Norton, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology drawn from the works which have been the recipients of the American Book Awards - among the contributors are Ai, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Jayne Cortez, Linda Hogan, Edward Dorn, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Duane Niatum, Julia Vinograd, Amiri Baraka, Gary Snyder and many more. Introduction by J. J. Phillips and Foreword by Ishmael Reed. Each selection is preceded by a biographical essay on the writer, and the appendix has the complete listing of the American Book Award winners for those 10 years. SIGNED by THREE editors: Ishmael Reed on the half title page and Shawn Wong and Gundars Strads on the title page. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-393-030563.

New York: Scribner, (1996.). A collection of 75 poems, reflecting the diversity of America - from Sherman Alexie and Margaret Atwood through to Diane Wakoski and Ray A. Youngbear. Also includes contributions from Alicia Ostriker (on the Holocaust,); Wang Ping (on the deaths of Chinese stowaways); as well as Jean Valentine, Carl Phillips, Reynolds Price, Marilyn Chin, Gary Soto, Luis Urea, William Dickey, Jane Kenyon, James Merrill and Jean Starr and many others. David Lehman is the series editor.Õ Includes extensive contributors' notes and comments and a cumulative series index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684-81451X.

Oakland, CA: O Books, (1988). First edition - An anthology with poetry by Larry Eigner, Alice Notley, Nathaniel Mackey, Michael Palmer, Norma Cole and more. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-917588185.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1991). An anthology of more than 300 poems and a few prose pieces by women writers both contemporary and from earlier times. Contributors range from Julien of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen to Margaret Fuller, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Audre Lorde, Marge Piercy, May Sarton, Joy Harjo, Erica Jong, Joyce Carol Oates ("Growing Together"), Rita Mae Brown, Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Eudora Welty, Tess Gallagher, Maya Angelou, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Margaret Atwood, Annie Dillard, Lucille Clifton, Tess Gallagher, Linda Hogan, Robin Morgan, Alice Ostricher, Julia Alvarez and many more. Introduction by Marilyn Sewell. Index, xx, 311 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-8070-68136.

Chester Springs, Pennsylvania: Dufour Editions, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on modern American poets and themes in poetry: James Atlas on W. S. Merwin, Shaw on Poetry of Protest, Harold Bloom on John Ashbery, Albert Gelpi on Adrienne Rich, J. D. McClatchy on Sylvia Plath, Peggy Rizza on Women as Poets, a conversation with Mark Strand, and more. The second title in Carcanet's Critical Series. Notes at the end of each essay, a reading list, notes on contributors, index. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-802312527.

New York: Delacorte, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology for older children and young adults, compiled by Smith and illustrated with drawings by Jacques Hnizdovsky. "There are poems on many subjects and in many forms, all the way from simple rhymes to complex stanzaic patterns. Some are the work of the most famous poets of our time, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden; others are by young poets published here for the first time." Among the other poets are Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, Dylan Thomas, Gary Snyder, and more. Index of authors, translators and titles. xiii, 225 pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-440029201.

Munchen [Munich]: Kurt Wolff (1923.). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon anthology, selected and edited by Speyer as a small representative collection for the poets and poetry lovers of Germany - includes the works of most of the significant poets of the time - Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincetn Millay, Conrad Aiken, Edgar Lee Masters, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, William Carlos Williams, Elinor Wylie - and others, such as Adelaide Crapsey and Lola Ridge, not so well remembered. Unusual in the number of women poets included. Introduction by Speyer. Bibliography. 133 pp. A lovely production, slightly oversized, three-quarters red leather binding with green and red marbelized boards, ribbon marker bound in.

Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Poetry Center Press. 2009. First edition - Sixty-five poets are covered, including US poet laureate, Kay Ryan, California state poet laureates Carol Muske-Dukes and Al Young, and city and country poet laureates Lawrence Ferlinghetti, devorah major, Terry Ehret, Julia Connor, Christina Hutchins, Barry Spacks, Mary Rudge, Jose Montoya, Glenna Luschei, Jack Hirschman, Dennis Schmitz, Viola Weinberg and many others. Preface by Bob Stanley, biographical notes. xii, 118 pages.

New York: The Academy of American Poets, (1984.). First edition - An interesting anthology containing 58 poems by 54 poets at 40 colleges or universities. Among the poets are Maurya Simon, Leon Stokesbury, Thylias Moss, Paula Sharp, Lee Upton and many others. Notes on the contributors and a list of judges. 128 pp.