Edited Sam Hamill (6 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 117 p. ; 24 cm.

First edition, first printing Inscribed to another by the poet Marie Harris, a contributor to this anthology with her signature on the full title page. Close to fine bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good paperback with french flaps and slight cover edgewear. 98 pages, unmarked. Contributors: James Ballentine, Robert Brandts, Christopher Buckley, Victor S. Cawthon, Robert D. Conger, David Dayton, Elliott Evans, J. M. Eklund, Ruth Gardner, Maryann Geller, Stephen Griffith, Sam Hamill, Barbara Holland, Robert Holmes, Carlos Martin Jimenez, Paul E. Keyser, Robert Kirschten, Thomas Lisk, Marcus Louria, Fredric Matteson, Elizabeth Mims, Suzanne Morgenstern, Cindy Ott, Ellen Pall, Terry Schwartz, Merissa Smith, Cathy Takasugi, Albert Wachtel, Stephanie Warren, Doug Welch. ; A2A; 98 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wraps (PB) in very good condition with light soiling and spots to page edges and wrinkles to plastic covers. Inside is all bright and clean with no marks, notes and folds. The publication of this book constitutes a major event in American poetry. Born in 1905 in South Bend, Indiana, Rexroth grew up among the various labor groups and political anarchists of 1920s Chicago, then moved to San Francisco where he made himself a crucial figure in the flowering of west coast literature. .".One of a handful of American poets that deserve to be called great"-Los Angeles Times. "Kenneth Rexroth: elaborately learned, precisely and passionately political, sardonic and witty, and expert high mountain rambler.I am grateful that we have his vivid hard-hitting poems brought back to us in this one volume"-Gary Snyder. 764 pages with notes and index of titles.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Printing. "Hamill, poet and principal editor of the prestigious Copper Canyon Press, has assembled a remarkable retrospective of the many labors of his little company. The list of poets offered here is almost staggering in its variety: Nobel Prize winners (Pablo Neruda and Odysseus Elytis); prominent American poets (Hayden Carruth, John Haines, W.S. Merwin, Carolyn Kizer, and James Laughlin); poets in translation (Jean Joubert, O.V. de L. Milosz, Sandor Csoori, and Su Tung-p'o); and poets beginning to come into their own (Eleanor Wilner, Shirley Kaufman, Timothy Liu, and Richard Jones). Hamill's taste, as reflected in these choices, honors a certain humility, an earthiness, in poetry. Hamill's introduction sketches the recent history of American poetry, of which Copper Canyon has been an important part; his notes are warmly percipient appreciations of the poets his press has fostered. This anthology will appeal strongly to all readers of contemporary poetry; highly recommended." Bright and fine condition with no markings.

First edition, first printing Immaculate copy and gift quality. Review copy stamp to the opening flyleaf. Otherwise unread and new. As Lawrence Ferlinghetti said "Rexroth is the master of us all." A definitive edition thanks to the work of Sam Hamill. Almost 800 pages. Fine and bright in like glossy dust jacket. Gift quality.