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Verse Books & Ephemera
Waiting for Sweet Betty
by Major, Clarence
Copper Canyon Press, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. Could pass as new. From back cover: "An accomplished painter as well as a singularly gifted poet, Clarence Major has said that he writes what he cannot paint. With a painter's eye and an ear for the nuances of daily speech, his new poems explore subtle exchanges, juxtaposing one shifting perspective with another. Major's poems look deeply into the very process of making art, into the imagination and the heart of its creation, and in Waiting for...
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NZ$27.33
Lingual Bard: A Lifetime in Poetry
by Ace C. Young
Publish Today, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. As new except for former owner gift inscription on title page, author signed on inside front cover. Illustrated boards, 141 pages of collected poetry, ISBN 0795188161
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NZ$36.43
SPC Tule Review: A Publication of the Sacramento Poetry Center (Winter 2010)
by Sacramento Poetry Center
Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Poetry Center, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. Minimal wear, almost new. 66 pages poetry.
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NZ$27.33
Poems : A Bare Unpainted Table
by Gladys Cardiff
New Issues Press POetry Series, Inland Seas Poetry Book, Western Michigan University, 1999. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Mildly rubbed on edges and spine, previous owner ink stamp inside front cover otherwise like new interior. Poetry 61 pages VG-
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NZ$27.33
Bris Collage
by Yazid Barroudy
Toulouse: Le Contentieux, 2019. Soft cover. Good. Soiled, curled and stained covers; solid binding, fine interior.
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NZ$21.86
Songs without Sound, Lyrics of Insanity
by Shawn Eveleth
Wasteland Press, 2011. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 125 pages poetry in excellent condition. From back cover: This is a look inside a corrupted mind. These are the thoughts and insights of someone who has lost everything and wants it back, the nightmares and daydreams of a man who wants to live forever but knows he might die today. Intertwined in these rhymes are a lifetime of lessons, tales of love and loss, and the facts of life that we try to ignore. If you read carefully, these pages tell a...
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Green & Gold Malaria
by McCall, Rupert
Kew Victoria: Mandarin. 1996. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations by Scott Rigney. Foreword by John Eales. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 114 pages. The third book of this Australian poet, notable for his poetry about sport. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.
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NZ$15.54
Arrogant Bones
by Larry Schug
North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. Except for a hint of corner bends in as new condition. 102 pages of poetry.
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NZ$54.65
Fire Wheel
by Voorakkara, Sharmila
University of Akron Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Could pass for new. 89 pages of poetry. ISBN 1931968217
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NZ$36.43
Indigo Express
by Claude Pelieu
le livre a venir, 1986. Soft cover. Good. Print run of only 600, rare title by the enigmatic French Beat poet (who added Washburn to his name after emigrating to San Francisco in 1963) and dissident Algerian War veteran who late in life became a collage artist - a combination known by no other. Fine interior and solid binding but damaged covers: lightly soiled, sticker scar on front, and missing title plate.
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NZ$63.76
Selected Poems
by Thomas, Dylan
London: The Folio Society. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2014. Hardcover. Overall shallow wrinkling to the leaf of pages 131-132. The slipcase has a tiny dent on the head edge and small, faint abrasions on one side.; This volume includes 49 poems that are representative of this brilliant, self-destructive Welsh poet. Editors Walford Davies and Ralph Maud selected these from Thomas's most significant books: 18 Poems, Twenty-Five Poems, The Map of Love, Deaths and Entrances, and In Country...
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NZ$84.97
Today is Here
by Don Blanding
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket has random rub marks and chipped on corners and spine tips; faded endpapers, binding opens readily at pastedowns, POS and author inscription on FFEP. 143 pages of poetry with illustrations.
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NZ$30.97
Poems : Fishing With Blood
by Jackson, Fleda Brown
Purdue University Press, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. Minimal wear, almost new. 74 pages of poetry. ISBN 0911198946
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NZ$27.33
THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES
by Longfellow, Henry W
1868. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Original terra-cotta cloth decorated in gilt. First American Edition (published on the same day as the London edition and the Leipzig edition) of these two plays in verse form -- "John Endicott" sited in 1665 Boston and "Giles Corey" in 1692 Salem. This copy is in terra-cotta cloth (one of three colors that were used in addition to several leather bindings), and has the TF pendant device in the supposed second state (with a hollow pendant). As Blanck points out,...
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NZ$246.41
Sierra Journal 1976
by Bill Hotchkiss, editor / Sierra College (Rocklin, California)
Rocklin, California: Sierra College, 1976. Staplebound. Good. Community college staplebound journal of prose and poetry, 76 pages, rubbed edges and slightly yellowed, still handles well VG- / presque TBE. There are some familiar names from the Sacramento poetry scene : Bill Hotchkiss, Dennis Schmitz, Edith Snow, Judith Shears, David Carpenter as well as a few surprises from far afield: William Everson, Cormel Lengyel, K'os Naahaabii.
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NZ$36.43
Sanity Went on Vacation
by Ken Siegmann
Sunnyvale, CA: Bent Eagle Press, 2000. Soft cover. Near Fine. Minimal wear could pass as new. 60 pages of poetry.
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NZ$36.43
Routines that Will Kill You
by Ann Menebroker
Arlington, VA: Bogg Publications, 1993. 2nd Printing. Staplebound. Good. Suzanne Johnson and Harland Ristau. [20] pages, staplebound chapbook of poetry, Bogg Second Series, #7. 2nd printing (1993). Quarter inch margin of edges sunned, one creased corner, remainder mark, general wear. Do you have sticker shock? That's okay, I don't mind keeping this one even though the title poem vanquished my complacency. See for yourself: "I still love you, she said. He said he loved her, too. He said it...
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Les roses noires. Poemes
by Denis Blaise Horth
Auto-edite, 1978. Soft cover. Good. Preface: Vs presenter mon frere, serait-ce dire qu'il est Noir / Vs presenter mon frere, serait-ce dire qu'il divague / Voyez seulement ce qu'il faut voir, Comme un peuple domine / essayez de l'entendre / l'esclavage n'est pas mort? / Prenez ces roses noires, que la honte vous etouffe / Car les epines ne sont pas toujours blanches....Cayenne, le 30-8-77. Stained page edges and mildly scuffed covers with fine interior and solid binding.
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NZ$36.43
After a Lost Original: A Book of Poems
by Shapiro, David
Overlook Books, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Remainder mark, minimal wear. 88 pages of poetry.
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NZ$36.43
THE BALLAD OF BABIE BELL and Other Poems
by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
1859. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. Original blind-stamped brown cloth. First Edition of this very early Aldrich volume, his fourth -- after THE BELLS (1855), DAISY'S NECKLACE (1857) and THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE (1858). The title verse is "the poem of a little life that was but three Aprils long." This copy is in chocolate brown "A" cloth (one of three cloths used, without precedence); it has no ads (some but not all copies have either 5 pp or 10 pp). This is a remarkably fine, bright copy, virtually...
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NZ$212.42
Selected Poetry by Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson : The Trouble With Voices
by Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson
Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Distribution, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Eleanor Davy Carmack. Fine interior with author inscription on title page. Exterior wraps have moderate edge and corner wear, scuffing, and thumb dents. VG- / presque TBE. 56 pages of poetry, 16,5 x 21 cm., illustrated with collographs by Eleanor Davy Carmack.
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NZ$54.65
Keys to Understanding: Receiving and Sending The Poem
by Paul C. Holmes and Anita J. Lehman
Harper & Row, 1969. Soft cover. Fair. Binding cracks with corresponding creases in spine, moderate general wear, clean interior though slightly yellowed with a few creased page tips. Anthology of 80 poems with numerous study and class discussion questions. 215 pages typical style of college readers of the late 60s. Perfectly functional copy.
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NZ$30.97
Life in Poems
by Michael Miller
Beattie & Co., 1963. Staplebound. Good. Rubbed spine and sunned wraps with clean interior. Religious poetry by Catholic priest. Staplebound 93 pages.
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NZ$18.22
Nearness of You
by Dallas A. Sall
Lincoln City, OR: Sunrise Publishing, 1984. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. Smudged wraps, with one crease and some fading, spine cracks with no loose pages yet but seems the glue is giving out. Illustrated, first printing, signed by author. 57 pages of poetry
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NZ$21.86
ARR11 American River Review Volume 24
by American River College
Sacramento, CA: American River College, 2011. Soft cover. Good. Mildly rubbed edges and curled corners. Fine illustrated interior. VG- / presque TBE. Oversized glossy 23 x 30,5 cm. award-winning annual literary revue of the college's student and alumni artwork and poetry, 185+ pages.
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NZ$45.54
