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    HARRISON, Thomas J. ed.

    The Favorite Malice: Ontology and Reference in Contemporary Italian Poetry.

    $25.00
    NY, Norristown, Milan: Out of London Press (1983). First edition. 354 pp w/appendix & biographical note. A few light marks to fore-edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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    HOLLANDER, John.

    Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse.

    $15.00
    New Haven & London: Yale University Press (1981). First trade paperback printing. 54 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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    HONIG, Edwin.

    The Poet’s Other Voice: Conversations on Literary Translation.

    $35.00
    Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985. First edition. xiii + 218 w/notes & biobibliographies. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    HUGHES, Glenn.

    Imagism & The Imagists: A Study in Modern Poetry.

    $35.00
    NY: Humanities Press, 1960. First edition. xiii + 283 pp w/index. Inked date and ownership signature to first and last leaves, else very good plus in full cloth. Lacks dust jacket.
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    HUNGERFORD, Edward B. ed.

    Poets in Progress: Critical Prefaces to Ten Contemporary Americans.

    $20.00
    Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1962. First edition. viii + 213 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Review slip pasted to first leaf. Inked ownership signature of James Schevill.
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    JARMAN, Mark.

    The Secret of Poetry: Essays.

    $12.50
    Ashland: Story Line Press (2001). First edition. 223 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.
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    JONES, Richard. ed.

    Poetry and Politics: An Anthology of Essays.

    $25.00
    NY: William Morrow (1985). First edition. 320 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Eliot, Rukeyser, Auden, Snyder, Bly, Rich, Baraka, Levertov, Forché, and many others appear. Review slip laid in.
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    KALAIDJIAN, Walter.

    Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry.

    $20.00
    NY: Columbia University Press (1989). First edition. xxii + 263 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light fade to spine.
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    KERTZER, Jonathan.

    Poetic Argument: Studies in Modern Poetry.

    $15.00
    Kingston, London, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (1989). First edition. 201 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    KESSLER, Stephen.

    Moving Targets: On Poets, Poetry & Translation.

    $25.00
    Berkeley: El León Literary Arts (2008). First edition. 243 pp. Small bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Kessler.
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    KOSTELANETZ, Richard.

    The New Poetries and Some Old.

    $25.00
    Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1991). First edition. 279 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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    LARRICK, Nancy. ed.

    Somebody Turned on a Tap in These Kids: Poetry and Young People Today.

    $25.00
    NY: Delacorte Press (1971). First edition. viii + 178 pp w/index. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
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    LEVINE, Philip with Orlando Patterson and Norman Rush.

    Earth, Stars, and Writers: The National Book Week Lectures.

    $20.00
    Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1992. First edition. 37 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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    LEYLAND, Winston.

    Gay Sunshine Interviews Volume Two.

    $45.00
    San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press (1982). First edition. 288 pp. Near fine in full red cloth with black stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket. Broughton, Congdon, Duncan, Elmslie, Taylor Mead, Roger Peyrefitte, Rorem, Samuel Steward, Mutsuo Takahashi, John Wieners, and many others.
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    LIBBY, Anthony.

    Mythologies of Nothing: Mystical Death in American Poetry 1940-70.

    $20.00
    Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1984). First edition. 225 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Lowell, Roethke, Plath, Bly, Merwin.
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    LIEBERMAN, Laurence.

    Beyond the Muse of Memory: Essays on Contemporary American Poets.

    $12.50
    Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press (1995). First trade paperback printing. xi + 284 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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    MARTIN, Robert K.

    The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry: An Expanded Edition.

    $20.00
    Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1998). First printing of this expanded edition. xx + 259 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Martin considers Whitman, Crane, Halleck, Bayard Taylor, Santayana, Ginsberg, Duncan, Gunn, Edward Field, Richard Howard, Merrill, and Alfred Corn.
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    MARTIN, Robert K.

    The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry.

    $27.50
    Austin & London: University of Texas Press (1979). First edition. xx + 259 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Martin considers Whitman, Crane, Halleck, Bayard Taylor, Santayana, Ginsberg, Duncan, Gunn, Edward Field, Richard Howard, Merrill, and Alfred Corn. Review slip laid in.
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    MATTHEWS, J.H.

    Surrealist Poetry in France.

    $35.00
    Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (1969). First edition. xi + 240 pp w/notes. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel and some rubbing.
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    MAZZARO, Jerome.

    Postmodern American Poetry.

    $25.00
    Urbana: University of Chicago Press (1980). First edition. xi + 203 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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    McMICHAEL, James.

    The Style of the Short Poem.

    $15.00
    Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company (1967). First edition. vii + 86 pp w/index. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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    MILES, Josephine.

    Poetry and Change: Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, and the Equilibrium of the Present.

    $35.00
    Berkeley: University of California (1974). First edition. 243 pp w/selected readings list. Corners tapped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light surface damage. INSCRIBED by Miles on the title page.
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    MILES, Josephine.

    The Primary Language of Poetry in the 1740’s and 1840’s.

    $35.00
    Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 1950. First edition. [221 pp] w/bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. University of California Publications in English Volume 19, No. 2, pp. 161-382.
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    MILLS, Ralph J. Jr.

    Cry of the Human: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.

    $20.00
    Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1975). First edition. xvi + 275 pp. Corners bumped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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    MINER, Earl.

    Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature.

    $35.00
    Princeton: Princeton University Press (1990). First edition. xi + 259 pp w/index. Faint foxing to page edges, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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  • The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s.
    MORRISON, Blake.

    The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s.

    $45.00
    Oxford: Oxford University Press (1980). First edition. x + 326 pp w/notes, select bibliography, & index. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else fine in fine dust jacket. Larkin, Amis, Davie, Enright, Gunn, Wain, Jennings, and others corralled.
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    NELSON, Sonja. ed.

    The American Poetry Archive Audio Tape Collection 1954-1977.

    $25.00
    San Francisco: The Poetry Center (1978). First edition. 105 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Michael Myers (Zephyrus Image).
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    NEMEROV, Howard. ed.

    Poets on Poetry.

    $75.00
    NY: Basic Books (1966). First edition. xii + 250 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Contributions by John, Berryman, James Dickey, Robert Duncan, Jack Gilbert, Barbara Howes, Marianne Moore, May Swenson, and many others.
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    OXLEY, William.

    The Cauldron of Inspiration.

    $35.00
    Salzberg: Institut für Aglistik und Amerikanistik, 1983. First edition. 324 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. “Review Copy” stamped, faintly, to front cover.
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    PALMER, George Herbert.

    Formative Types in English Poetry: The Earl Lectures of 1917.

    $25.00
    Boston & London: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. First edition. v + 310 pp. Near fine in full blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Briefly INSCRIBED by Palmer on the first leaf.
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    PAULIN, Tom.

    Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State.

    $15.00
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First US edition. vi + 298 pp. Pages tanned (cheap paper), else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of edgewear.
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    PEACOCK, Molly.

    How to Read a Poem… and Start a Poetry Circle.

    $15.00
    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (1999). First Canadian edition. 214 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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