New selected poems

New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle bumping to rear corners, light soiling to fore-edge, exceedingly mild rubbing to top corners, bright pages, tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ corners, faint soiling to DJ and DJ spine, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(-) DJ./near fine. Octavo in black color illus DJ, black spine, gilt to spine, 292 pages, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Includes selections from the poet's latest works, Sweet will and A walk with Tom Jefferson. Contents: [1.] From On the Edge (1963) : Lights I have seen before ; For Fran ; My poets ; L'homme et la bête ; On the edge ; The horse -- [2.] From Not This Pig (1968) : A new day ; Blasting from heaven ; To a child trapped in a barbershop ; The cemetery at Academy, California ; Silent in America ; The midget ; Heaven ; Waking an angel ; Animals are passing from our lives ; Baby villon -- [3.] From Red Dust (1971) : Clouds ; Noon ; Holding on ; Fist ; How much can it hurt ; The helmet ; Red dust ; How much earth ; A sleepless night ; Told -- [4.] Pili's wall (1971) : Pili's wall -- [5.] From They Feed They Lion (1972) : Renaming the kings ; To a fish head found on the beach near Málaga ; Salami ; Coming home ; Detroit grease shop poem ; Saturday sweeping ; Angel butcher ; They feed they lion ; The children's crusade ; Later still ; To P.L., 1916-1937 ; Breath -- [6.] From 1933 (1974) : Zaydee ; Grandmother in heaven ; Late moon ; At the Fillmore ; The poem circling Hamtramck, Michigan, all night in search of you ; Letters for the dead ; Goodbye ; Uncle ; 1933 ; Hold me -- [7.] From The Names of the Lost (1976) : On the birth of good & evil during the long winter of '28 ; No one remembers ; Bell Isle, 1949 ; New season ; On the corner ; Gift for a believer ; Wednesday ; My son and I ; A late answer ; On the murder of Lieutenant José del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936 ; Ask the roses ; And the trains go on ; To my God in his sickness -- [8.] From Ashes (1979) : The miracle ; Starlight ; Nitrate ; Making it new ; On a drawing by Flavio ; Ashes ; Lost and found -- [9.] From 7 Years from Somewhere (1979) : I could believe ; Planting ; Francisco, i'll bring you red carnations ; Milkweed ; Hear me ; The last step ; The face ; Let me begin again ; Snow ; Words ; You can have it ; Let me be ; 7 years from somewhere -- [10.] From One for the Rose (1981) : Having been asked "What is a man?" I answer ; The poem of flight ; I was born in Lucerne ; Roofs ; The conductor of nothing ; The fox ; Genius ; To Cipriano, in the wind ; Belief ; Sources ; Rain downriver ; The suit ; The voice ; On my own ; One for the rose -- [11.] From Sweet Will (1985) : Salts and oils ; The white iris ; Look ; Sweet Will ; From a poem with no ending ; An ordinary morning ; Jewish graveyards, Italy -- [12.] From A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988) : Buying and selling ; Making light of it ; Winter words ; 28 ; These streets ; Dog poem ; a theory of prosody ; A walk with Tom Jefferson. American poetry -- 20th century.