On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids
San Francisco: Manifest Press, 2003. First printing. 86 pp., 7 x 9 inches. Perfect bound in printed wrappers. Translated by Chris Daniels, with artwork by Francisco Faria.
Poetry in Translation
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From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965-1995
Nobleboro, ME: Blackberry Books, 2016. First printing. 259 pp., 8vo. Perfect-bound, in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Stefan Hyner, with an introduction, epilogue, bibliography, and ten full-page color reproductions of paintings. New. Franco Beltrametti (1937–1995) was a Swiss architect, artist, and poet, who traveled widely and was close to James Koller, Joanne Kyger, Ted Berrigan.....
Mirabai Versions
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1980. First Thus. Paperback. (12) pp., narrow 8vo. One of 2000 copies of this "first facsimile edition," printed from proofs of the limited edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Alan Brilliant and Teo Savory, publishers of Unicorn Press, "as a New Years present.....
Ten Poems
N.p. Privately printed, 1969. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [6] pp. English versions by Bly of the great nineteenth-century Japanese poet Issa, published in a very small edition as a gift. Inscribed by Bly to Teo Savory and Alan Brilliant of the Unicorn Press, who published Bly often through the late.....
Prise
Bordeaux, France: Format Américain, 2000. First printing. (13) pp., square 12mo. Brown's 1993 book Crush (later included in Polyverse), translated "from the American" by Holly Dye and Éric Giraud. Very mild wear/bumps to corners, otherwise fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.
From Orphic Songs
Oberlin, OH: Pocket Pal Press, 1977. First printing. (20) pp., 7 x 8.5 inches. Stapled into printed card covers. Jean Duval Chapbook Series no. 2. Book design & layout by Jean Kondo Weigl; cover by Judy Garlan. A touch of sunning to covers along the spine, otherwise a fine, bright.....
BENZINH (Gasoline)
Athens: Eleftheros Typos, 1989. First printing. 48 pp., 5.5 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Light rubbing to covers and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Corso’s early collection, translated into Greek by Giorgos Mplanas. Scarce; no copies noted in WorldCat.
Late Arrival on Earth: Selected Poems
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing.....
One Hundred Poems from the Palatine Anthology in English Paraphrase
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938. First Edition. Boards. 1/500 copies beautifully printed in two colors at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 111pp. An early New Directions title. Warmly inscribed by the translator--in Latin--and signed and dated January 14, 1938. According to the colophon, the book was printed in January, thus.....
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, 2007. First printing. 349 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Issued as the Winter 2007 issue of To Topos: Poetry International, published by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at OSU. As new. An extraordinary multilingual anthology, with seventy-six contributors.....
Words Pronounced Exactly Alike
Portland, OR: Fredrik Averin, 2014. First printing. Square broadside, 20 x 20 inches, printed silkscreen in two colors on Mohawk Via 80 lb. cover stock, in an edition of forty-two copies. Bilingual English/Swedish text; typography and translation by the publisher. New. A poem interpreted through the interplay of language, space.....
L'Apres-midi d'un faune
Tucson, AZ: Ironwood Press, 1981. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. [14] pp. As new; uncommon. 8vo.
100 Poems of Taslima Nasreen
Dhaka: Ananya, 1997. First printing. 96 pp., 8vo. Sewn signatures in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the Bengali by Kabir Chowdhury. Light marking to covers, and mild corner bump, otherwise very good. Inscribed to Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi. Taslima Nasreen, born in Bengladesh in 1962, is a feminist and humanist.....
Singing at the Whirlpool
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1983. First Edition. Wrappers. 60 pp. Illustrations by Mario Mascarelli. With the original Serbo-Croatian texts and English translations printed en face. "Pavlovic's poetic search for human experience in the culture of Lepenski Vir (the Whirlpool), a neolithic site discovered in the valley of the Danube..." Fine. Narrow.....
Boxes, Stairs & Whistle Time
Knotting, Bedfordshire, England: Omphalos Press, 1975. First printing. Wrappers. 8vo. 1/250 copies. First substantial publication in English by this prolific novelist, poet, and translator. Poems written in English, or translated by the author with the help of Anthony Rudolf and Peter Jay. Warmly inscribed to novelist Roger Zelazny.
The Trees of Vietnam
Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado, 1966. First printing. 21 pp., 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers, in an edition of 1,000 copies. Cover design by Sylvia de Swaan. "Colleccion la llave vol. 1." Small scrapes to spine and back cover, and mild bump to corner, otherwise very.....
Dropping the Bow: Poems from Ancient India
Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press, 1991. First Edition. Wrappers. 79 pp. Translations from the Sanskrit, with an introduction and bibliography. This copy inscribed by the translator (also one of the directors of the Naropa Institute Writing Program) to Alice Notley and Douglas Oliver. Fine. 8vo.
Taaroa. Poems from the Pacific
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Papua Pocket Poets, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Poems from Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii, Marshall and Solomon Islands, and from the Maori. Originally published in Vienna, 1935; first appearance in English. The first volume in the PPP series edited by Ulli Beier. Very good in decorated wrappers.....
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