william thomas jeffers (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Red cloth with gold lettering ; 31 black & white photographs of glasswork ; poems by thirty-one contemporary American poets ; 86 pp. ; Contents: Harvest morning / Conrad Aiken -- This season / Sara Van Alstyne Allen -- The maker / W.H. Auden -- The dragon fly / Louise Bogan -- A maze / Witter Bynner -- To build a fire / Melville Cane -- Strong as death / Gustav Davidson -- Horn of flowers / Thomas Hornsby Ferril -- Threnos / Jean Garrigue -- Off Capri / Horace Gregory -- Stories / Donald Hall -- Orpheus / Cecil Hemley -- Voyage to the island / Robert Hillyer -- The certainty / John Holmes -- Birds and fishes / Robinson Jeffers -- The breathing / Denise Levertov -- To a giraffe / Marianne Moore -- The aim / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Pacific Beach / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Victorians / Theodore Roethke -- Aria / Delmore Schwartz -- Tornado warning / Karl Shapiro -- Partial eclipse / W.D. Snodgrass -- Who hath seen the wind? / A.M. Sullivan -- Trip / Hollis Summers -- Models of the universe / May Swenson -- Standstill / Joseph Tusiani -- April burial / Mark Van Doren -- Telos / John Hall Wheelock -- Leaving / Richard Wilbur -- Bird song / William Carlos Williams. ; biographical paragraphs on each poet at back ; scuffs on covers, else VG. Book.

First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original three quarter buckram over marbled boards, top edge gilt. One of 26 lettered copies available for sale and signed by 31 of the 32 contributors (W. R. Rogers is absent as is the case with all copies), this is copy V (of 58 as 32 copies were reserved for the contributors). Signed by Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald Macleish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Oscar Williams. In near fine condition with a remnant of the original glassine. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase which is in very good condition. Rare and desirable in the original binding. "Poetry is an unacknowledged war industry. It is a known but unmitigated error of many intelligent people to look down on poetry as if it were a feather in the hat on a stormy day, curlicues on the fringe of nothing, play for an idle moment between major issues. Hence the infinite indifference to poetry in a society badly in need of it, but offering to it, as to Christianity, a meaningless lip service. Poetry is a necessity wearing the trapping of a luxury. It is a way to live, and a way to evaluate that way. It is a way of seeing, and therefore of believing" (Oscar Williams, Introduction).