Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1995). A collection of poems by the U.S. Poet Laureate, in which Collins speaks directly to the reader - the San Francisco Chronicle called it a "wonderful, thoughtful, sly, and moving collection" and Edward Hirsch commented that "Billy Collins is an American original - a metaphysical poet with a funny bone and a sly, questioning intelligence. He is an ironist of the void, and his poems - witty, playful, and beautifully turned - bump up against the deepest human mysteries." A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-822955679.

Boston: Beacon, 1971. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first regularly published collection of poetry (a chapbook of the same name was published in 1966.) SIGNED on the title page. Cornish was named as Boston's first Poet Laureate in 2008. Preface by Ruth Whitman. Illustrated with photographs. 81 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-64149.

Boston: Beacon, 1971. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first regularly published collection of poetry (a chapbook of the same name was published in 1966.) SIGNED on the title page. Cornish was named as Boston's first Poet Laureate in 2008. Preface by Ruth Whitman. Illustrated with photographs. 81 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-64149.

Boston: Beacon, 1971. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first regularly published collection of poetry (a chapbook of the same name was published in 1966.) SIGNED on the title page. Cornish was named as Boston's first Poet Laureate in 2008. Preface by Ruth Whitman. Illustrated with photographs. 81 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-64149.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993). Hardcover first edition - A book in which Hall, an award winning poet and former US poet laureate, author of children's books and works of nonfiction, describes how work has filled his life with excitement - and he reflects on the different nature of work -his grandfather as a farmer in New Hampshire, his father in an office, and his work of putting a pen to paper. Halfway through writing this book, he found he had cancer, and it gave this book a new urgency, although he ultimately went on to live many more years. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 124 pp. Text design by Barry Moser. ISBN: 0-807070548.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1996.). First edition - Fourth collection of poems by this United States poet laureate. Attractive cover features the 1935 painting 'Red Sun' by Arthur Dove. Notes. 77 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-5578.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1989.). First edition - Collection of poems by this United States poet laureate. Notes. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-2129.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A work by this US poet laureate which defies characterization . "Tuning in voices from numerous time zones, languages, and minds, Herrera recalls his childhood and coming of age, his participation in the Chicano Movement, and the surreal aspects of postmodern America. . . Pushing forms to the edge of possibility while forcing readers to rethink reality as well as language, Herrera invokes childhoods and neighborhoods, stand-up clowns and Movimiento gypsies, grandmothers of the bunuelo kitchen and tragicomic soliloquies of dizzy-headed outcasts of paradise." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 186 pp. plus 4 photographs. ISBN: 0816522154.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2007). "A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what its like to live outlaw and brown in the United States." Herrera who served as both California poet laureate and as US poet laureate from 2015-2017, was the child of migrant farmers and his early days in the fields of California have strongly shaped his work. 352 pp plus sources and more photographs. No indication of printing on copyright page, price of 17.95 on rear cover. ISBN: 978-0872864627.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what its like to live outlaw and brown in the United States." Herrera who served as both California poet laureate and as US poet laureate from 2015-2017, was the child of migrant farmers and his early days in the fields of California have strongly shaped his work. SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp plus sources and more photographs. No indication of printing on copyright page but original price of 16.95 on rear cover. ISBN: 978-0872864627.

San Francisco: Manic D Press, (2016). SIGNED - An early work - his sixth book - by this writer, the first Latino US Poet Laureate. Originally published in 1994, this consists of forty cantos in which the poet explores the metaphysical relationship between Frida Kahlo, her art, her broken body, and cross-border consciousness. SIGNED on the title page. 61 pp. ISBN: 978-1933149967.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A new collection of poems, described as 'exuberant and socially engaged, reflective and hearling' by the first Latino US Poet Laureate. SIGNED on the title page. 100 pp. ISBN: 978-0872866973.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A new collection of poems, described as 'exuberant and socially engaged, reflective and hearling' by the first Latino US Poet Laureate. SIGNED on the title page. 100 pp. ISBN: 978-0872867109.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (1996.). Collects 30 of the best short stories by this award-winning poet and writing. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-801863384.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2005). SIGNED - Includes a selection of poems from two of Kooser's earlier works - Sure Signs and One World at a Time - From 2004-2006, Kooser was the U.S. Poet Laureate and in 2005 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. INSCRIBED on the title page. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. 142 pp. ISBN: 978-0822958772.

New York: Norton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection by this award-winning poet which "explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surfaces of ordinary life.". ISBN: 0-393037274.

New York: Norton, (1988). First edition - A collection by this award-winning poet which explores "the connections between the quotidian and the mythic [in] poems that are direct and passionate, yet controlled. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-393-305244.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997). SIGNED - A significant collection of poems by this former Poet Laureate of the U.S. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1999. Notes, 308 pp plus index of titles. ISBN: 0-374525064.

New York: Norton, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of 200 poems, together with comments from the Americans who chose each poem as their favorite - the poets range from classics by Chaucer, William Blake, Coleridge. the Brownings and Robert Burns to modern poets like Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, and many more. INSCRIBED on the title page by Robert Pinsky with the words "Good wishes to --- I hope you enjoy these" and dated December 14.1999. Index. xix, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-393048209.

Kensington, CA: Red Berry Editions, (2008). First edition - A rather uncommon and lighthearted collection by the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008 - 2010.r Illustrated throughout with drawings by Carl Dern. Tall slim format, unpaginated.

New York: Grove Press, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of poems by this former US poet laureate. 84 pp. ISBN: 0-802115861.

New York: Grove Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book after her surprise appointment as US Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (which described this as "a body of work spanning 45 years, witty, rebellious and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind") and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Index. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119148.

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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - First poety collection following Van Duyn's Pulitzer prize winning book, and published during the year that she was Poet Laureate in the US - the poems have a variety of forms, from long narrative to "minimalist" and range from witty to moving. Van Duyn has also been the recipient of the National Book award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first book, published shortly after his service in the Army during World War II. Illustrated with drawings by Irwin Touster. Whittemore was the United States Poet Laureate twice and, as a student at Yale, he was a co-founding editor of the small and influential literary magazine Furioso. 80 pp plus final drawing.