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  • FROM THE FISHOUSE: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. by Dungy, Camille T., Matt O'Donnell and Jeffrey Thomson, editors. Tyehimba Jess, signed.
    Dungy, Camille T., Matt O'Donnell and Jeffrey Thomson, editors. Tyehimba Jess, signed.
    FROM THE FISHOUSE: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Persea Books, (2019). First edition - An anthology of verse divided into ten playful sections - for example, "The Barrel Is Surely Coming Down the Hill" is comprised of poems that gain momentum as they move. Foreword by Gerald Stern and a cross-referenced index of the poems' technical and stylistic traits. Among the contributors are Adrian Blevins, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Tina Chang, Ross Gay, Paul Guest, Matthea Harvey, James Hoch, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Levin, Cate Marvin, Patrick Rosal, Tracy K. Smith, Brian Turner and many others. SIGNED by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Tyehimba Jess at his poem 'leadbelly vs lomax at the modern language association conference 1934.' Includes a cd with many of the poets reading one of their poems. xxii, 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0892553488.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (short tear at base of spine)

    Book ID: 87452
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  • BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW FALL 1987, Volume 14 Number 1, with the chapbook PO MAN'S HEART DISEASE. by Vogel, Amber, editor. Michael S. Harper.
    Vogel, Amber, editor. Michael S. Harper.
    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: 81252
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