Sissman L E Davison Peter (17 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 294pp. Blue cloth spine with blue boards, slight stain along upper page edge, DJ has wrinkles, short tears and tiny chips, stains along underside of DJ, First Edition, no writing in book, index, Collected poems of L.E. Sissman. …

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

First edition Foreword by Edward Hirsch. Near fine and bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Edited and with a Preface by Peter Davison. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in two-tone, light gray paper over boards, dark blue cloth-backed. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xix [2], 3-294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 'A'-1st printing. 294pp. Bright & tight copy, unread, in Very Good condition w/slight shelfwear scuffing to wraps, corners, edges, o/w unmarked. "Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 1979, HELLO, DARKNESS contains 134 poems, including four complete collections--Dying: An Introduction, Scattered Returns, Pursuit of Honor, and a posthumous collection of 38 poems never before published in book form--with an editor's preface by Peter Davison." [] "The publication of this volume is a major event in the history of recent American poetry; for in it L.E. Sissman emerges as a most interesting poet and surely the most undervalued of those who began their careers in the 1960's."--William Pritchard, London Times Literary Supplement. "He was not only an excellent poet, but also one of the most accessible poets of his generation. . . In Sissman's poetry, conventions are observed and decencies upheld. There is a powerful rage to live, but there is no private madness or personal violence, and no appeals to paranoia or the apocalypse. There is, however, a great deal of tender feeling, comic perception, mordant description, vivid character, dramatic incident, and tough-minded tuition, even in the face of death."--Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review. "In sum, the three volumes comprise, in a way rarely true of poetry since Browning, a world--dense, bustling, brimming with the utterly honorable quotidian truth of a Northeast-American professional man. In the posthumous poems we see--appalling spectacle!--this solid world drained, darkened, and blown away by death. What other poet has ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying?"--John Updike. "What a relief it is to come upon a successful businessman who happens to be a poet who writes from the point of view of a poet who happens to be a successful businessman."--John Malcolm Brining. [back cover blurbs] VG 8vo paperback w/light foxing on text head & light wear on edges, o/w unmarked, square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 140 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A near fine copy in a shelf and edge worn wrapper. Wrapper remains bright and clean with only minimal losses. Notably along the top edge. The edition itself shows light sunning along the top edge. The gilt lettering remains both bright and crisp. The edition remains both square and tight with sharp corners. Internally, the pages remain bright, clean and free from marginalia. A copy in excellent overall condition with a bright but worn wrapper.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 160.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 160.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 160.