edited helen vendler (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 7.00x4.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition, 1st printing (starts w/2). 528pp. Companion to the PBS Television series, Produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition (slight shelfwear to corners & edges, o/w unmarked). Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Crane, Hughes, Bishop, Lowell, Plath. "The inexhaustible play of poetic language, in which each word has its weight and duration and musical note as surely as in a fugue, ensures that poems give off a different shimmer at different times to the same reader and certainly at the same time to different readers. What is always the same is the point, the concentration, the intensity of the form . . . The poets in this book have been admired by other poets for having so often exhibited all the virtues of poetry at one time. [] We have hoped by these essays to show these virtues at work, to suggest how much American culture owes to the formulating powers of these poets' minds, how much the American language owes to their preservation of its idiom, how much the world owes to them for representing American consciousness and American beauty in their lines. [] Though we cannot do full justice here to the beauty and power of the American imagination and the American language as they are embodied in the poetry of two centuries, we hope that these essays will bring new readers to some poets, will direct some readers to new poems, and will offer for all readers a view of the range and play of the American imagination, a sense of the complication, depth, and grandeur of American poetry."--From the Introduction by Helen Vendler, on the back cover. "An illustrated tie-in volume to the thirteen-part PBS series of the same title that aired in January 1988, featuring leading critics' essays on the major American poets. More than 175 black-and-white photographs." [publisher copy] "A college text and companion volume to a new PBS television series, this collection of essays on 13 American poets from Whitman to Plath is traditional in selection and treatment. Punctuated with poems and illustrated with photographs and manuscript facsimiles showing authors' revisions, the book seeks to explore the poets' 'American-ness' but often runs short of the historical, social, and biographical background needed for the task. Occasionally an essay presents a labored academic 'explanation' giving an entirely different and unnecessary reading from the common-sense reading most readers find enjoyable. But the many useful essays on [these canonical poets] make this a solid introductory guide."--Bettina Drew, City College, CUNY, Library Journal. Intact paper cover features Fred Marcellino's eagle/sky/quill illustration. Fine paperback is solid & unmarked, w/square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. 313pp. Perfectbound. Black and white illustrations. Light edgewear, near fine. Notable contributors include Seamus Heaney, Ross Feld, Helen Vendler, Sandra Gilbert, Vernon Young, Joan Retallack, Wright Morris, Richard Howard, Eliot Weinberger.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Premier issue. Octavo. vi, 216pp. A trifle worn and soiled, about fine. Contributions by Ashbery, Creeley, Milosz, Bidart, Brock-Broido, Foster Wallace ("How Don Gately Found God"), Drummond de Andrade, and many others, as well as several dozen reviews, including Heaney on Milosz, David Foster Wallace on Kathy Acker, Tony Hoagland on Michael Blumenthal, and Donald Hall on Michael Longley.

Unbound. Zustand: Fine. Publication announcement. Small octavo. Two unstapled sheets, folded to make 8pp. Fine. Prints two example pages from the upcoming book, which was done in a limited run of 200 numbered copies.

Limited edition. 160 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Barry Moser; 8vo (9.75 x 6.75 inches), blue cloth boards with dark blue morocco bands at top and bottom of covers, title embossed in silver across the leather bands, matching cloth slipcase. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Printed letterpress in Monotype Goudy and Goudy Open on the same Barcham Green handmade paper used in (actually left over from) the Arion Press edition of Moby Dick. The leather bands across the covers were also from remnants of the leather used for Moby Dick, the intention being to create a companion volume to that earlier work from the Press. Barry Moser's portrait of Melville depicts the author at an advanced age. Edition of 250 numbered and 26 lettered copies, this #40. Frontispiece autographed by Barry Moser. Previous woner's small exlibris label on front free endpaper, else fine.