Coyote Wind
Salt Lake City, UT: Elik Press, 2018. First edition. Paperback. 67pp. Octavo [20cm]. Illustrated wraps. Collection of poetry from author Dyana Basist featuring theme of coyote. Includes haiku style poems. More
Poetry
Translating Baudelaire
Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2000. Paperback. 287pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] in wraps; creasing to front wrap lower corner; interior is clean and bright. From the rear wrap: "This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task..... More
Sugar House Review #3; Volume 2/Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2010
Salt Lake City: Sugar House Review, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 92 pp. Octavo [22 cm]. Third issue of new Salt Lake City-based literary journal. Issue features poems by: Dan Beachy-Quick, Steven Cramer, Jim Peterson, and Donald Revell among others. More
The Moon Cracks Open; A Field Guide to Birds and Other Poems
Saginaw, MI: Heal the Earth Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. 66pp. Octavo [21.5cm] Paperback. SIGNED by the author on the title page. From the publisher: "The Moon Cracks Open contains 49 poems, 20 of which form the Field Guide: a series of species-specific poems honoring the various birds that have..... More
The Falconer of God and Other Poems
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. 121pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 parchment vellum with brown paper over boards. The extremities are a bit dinged. In a dust jacket, with toning, and periodic small closed and open tears in the edges. This copy is inscribed by the author's..... More
Green Soldiers
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 63pp. Octavo [21 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good, with marginal rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers. In a near fine dust jacket, with a...... More
The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in Life...in Sound
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press/OHO Media, 2012. DVD. DVD. 61-minute feature film with over 30 minutes of deleted scenes and extras. Professionally pressed and printed DVD disc, housed in a standard clear DVD case. Full color photographic layout. 20-page saddle-stitched booklet insert containing artwork and an unpublished essay..... More
Clearing
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 52pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with brown paper over boards. Freedman A33.b. A sequence of poems about the land. This is Wendell Berry's sixth volume of poetry. Signed by Wendell Berry, with the date "4/15/07," on the title..... More
Entries:; Poems
Washington, D. C. Counterpoint, 1997. 5th Printing. Paperback. 80 pp. 20.5 cm. Wraps in two-tone red and gray spine and illustrated covers. New book with no flaws. Berry's "aching prose and strong sense of place . . . [put him] in the pantheon of Southern writers. This is an important..... More
Given: New Poems
Washington, D.C. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, WENDELL BERRY has farmed a hillside..... More
Given: New Poems
Washington, D.C. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very minor crease to the top fore-edge corner of the front wrap. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty..... More
Given:; Poems
Berkeley: Counterpoint/Shoemaker Hoard, 2006. Second printing. Paperback. 152pp. 20 cm. Multicolored wrappers with brown backstrip. Includes bibliographical references and index. New book with no flaws. "For five decades, Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose, a writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his..... More
Leavings: Poems; Poems
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. 132pp. [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has..... More
Poem XXI from Sabbaths
Printed for Black Swan Books by Larkspur Press, 2013. Limited edition. Broadside. SIGNED. Broadside measuring 10 x 14". Printed in black. 73 of only 100 copies. Signed by Kentucky writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry in pencil. "Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry lives in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace..... More
Sabbaths 1987
Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Paperback. 13pp. Octavo [25cm]. Tan Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight paper wraps. Handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type & printed on a handfed C&P. Though limited, this copy has not been hand numbered. More
A Small Porch
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 153pp. Octavo. [21cm] Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Sabbath poems from 2014 and 2015 combined with 'The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation'. More
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1998. reprint. Paperback. 216pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Berry's poetry, based around his Sunday morning walking meditations where he observed the world through his poetry. This book gathers all of his single works to date, embracing that which is elemental to human life-- beauty..... More
Window Poems
Counterpoint, 2007. First Shoemaker & Hoard Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. 64pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. A collection of poems that Berry wrote while looking out the multi-paned window of "The Long-Legged House". This edition is a copy of the Bob Baris Press on Scroll Road handpressed edition with wood engravings..... More
Random Remarks on a Random World (Reprinted from The Western Humanities Review, Vol. XV, No. 1, Winter, 1961)
Signed association copy. SIGNED. 10-page article stapled in the top left corner. Inscribed by the Canadian experimental poet, novelist, and critic, Earle Birney, to fellow poet Bill Stafford at the head of the article. Birney taught at the University of British Columbia, where he founded and oversaw the first Canadian..... More
Leaves From A Grass House
Honolulu, Hawaii: Patten Company Ltd, 1923. Fourth edition. SIGNED. 59pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Thin card wraps, with a pictorial dust wrapper, and the publisher's additional wrapper of fringed woven grass. The text block is hanging on to the covers by a thread. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the..... More
Pueblo Poems
Marvin, SD: Benedictine Missionaries, Blue Cloud Abbey, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Two point saddle staple binding. Vol. XXI, Number 1 of The Blue Cloud Quarterly. Paper lightly darkened by sun right along the spine and extreme upper edge. Illustrated with photography by Ansel Adams, H. T. Corey, and Ben Wittick..... More
Poem Afternoon in a Square of Guadalajara (Maya Quarto Six)
Printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, 1970. Limited edition. Paperback. Very slim quarto [25.5 cm] Sewn orange wraps with a small illustrated title label mounted to the front wrap. One in an edition of 300 copies. More
June 30th, June 30th
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 99pp. Small octavo [21 cm] 1/4 white cloth with blue paper over boards. Publisher's purple spray to foot of text block ( a bit has transferred to the foot of the spine and surrounding areas of the boards, along..... More