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New York:: Ecco Press,, 1993.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket.

Brooklyn:: Hanging Loose Press,, 2000.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this collection of poems and poem-tight prose pieces, Alexie targets lies and hypocrisy. He mocks the mealymouthed cant of the politically correct and, in a lashing poem titled "Open Books," the arrogance of a certain ilk of poet, then, elsewhere, tempers his rage with tenderness. His hard-hitting poems are loosely knit and suitable for performance, but his prose pieces are constructed as diabolically as barbed wire, especially the clever yet emotionally resonant essay "The Warriors," in which musings on baseball segue into thoughts on friendship and such frank disclosures as his confession that although television once had him convinced that white women were sexier than brown women, life taught him the truth about love.

New York:: Harper & Row,, 1987.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. There was a very small hardcover print run of this title,primarily for the library market. Very uncommon thus.

New York::: Harper & Row,,, 1981... First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. In "The Rescued Year" Stafford deepens both his technique and his autobiographical associations, especially in the twenty memory-pieces of the opening section. Here the influence of Life Studies is evident, . A calm austerity, careful naturalistic details, muted rhymes and flexible cadences singularly express a subdued moral pathos, an intermingling of past and present, a commentary on one's allegiances, hopes, doubts, defeats. Symbolist strains, as well as social and political attitudes, inform the book as a whole; but it is the recurring imagery of seasons, landscapes, and particular people which best signify Stafford's instinctively humane temperament, the genuineness of his concerns, the lovely integrity of his lines.

New York:: W. W. Norton,, 1980.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Review copy with review slip and author photo laid-in.