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	AMES, VAN METER Out of Iowa - a Poem By Van Meter Ames - Signed By the Author, to Author Carl Grabo New York: Henry Harrison Pub, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Signed by Author 1936 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Signed by author Van Meter Ames , to author Carl Grabo, dated 1936, and mentioning fellow professor and author R.C. Stephenson ... Robert Clarence Stephenson, ' lover of letters ' , to whom this book is dedicated .... * .... This is the only poetry book by Van Meter Ames, who wrote many philosophical books and papers ... Ames says in the preface : " He who theroizes about art should expose himself in turn to the analysis of others ; if he cannot dance or paint, he can write; if he has no other subject he has himself. I have tried expressing my sense of beauty ... in the ... litany of little things remembered from childhood ... Words sing with their own music .... " ... Born July 9, 1898 in De Soto, Iowa, Ames was the son of Mabel Van Meter Ames and Edward Scribner Ames ( 1870-1958 ) , who taught in the Philosophy department at the University of Chicago ... Van Meter Ames received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1924, and Ames joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 1925 , where he became chairman of the department of philosophy in 1959 ... After a long and distinguished career ... during which he received a Rockefeller grant to study French philosophy in 1948, was named Fulbright research professor at Komazawa University in Tokyo, and had interim appointments at Cornell University ... the University of Texas ... the University of Hawaii ... New York's Columbia University ... and the University of Aix-Marseille where he was the first American faculty member ... Ames retired in 1966 ... and then was designated Humanist Fellow for Outstanding Contributions to Humanist Thought in Ethics and Aesthetics, by the American Humanist Association, in 1976 ... His papers are held at the University of Chicago archives, and have been published by the American Philosophical Association ... This is a lovely, long, stream of consciousness poem to the memory of turn-of-the-century and early 20th century Prohibition-era Iowa , and those dreamy days of milkmen making the rounds with their horses at dawn, and the ice man delivering his wares, and girls in dresses that they had made themselves, out walking on a sunny afternoon with boys they loved ... Beautiful, evocative imagery, brings back memories of town life everywhere in America in some ... and, for others, evokes nostalgia for a time they never knew ... " We picked our way through the ruins of a shingle factory, the largest in the world when virgin forest was uncut; We skirted the foundations of a deserted brickyard, and a canning factory on the edge of failure, before we reached the leaning ice house, where a bearded ice man delved in the smell of sawdust; When it was late ... going home between rows of once-saloons and little shops doing summer business, past the empty exclamation of a castle; battlement for a grand hotel, but never finished; on down the quiet street of tiny houses and large trees; In a red-trimmed dress of tan percale she made herself, to my delight, Isabel walked with me ... Isabel wore overalls of blue and red, when we walked through morning woods and arrived too early for the mail; where residents of the Civil War, in black felt hats and square white beards, rehearsed with canes and maps imagined on the walk, campaigns of 1863 and '64 " ... Touching, beautiful memoir ... " Out of Iowa - A Poem " ... by Van Meter Ames ... published by Henry Harrison poetry publisher, New York ... 1936 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Signed by the author , to author Carl Grabo ... * Securely packed for Safe Delivery ~ Books shipped across America and around the world, since 1965 *. Fair/Fair . USD 40.00** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 6490 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	AWOONOR, KOFI This Earth, My Brother London: Heinemann Ed. Pub, 1972. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 x 8 " 0435906348 1972 HARDCOVER in DJ ... AS NEW ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Includes original insert slip from Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. inside ... Book & DJ show virturally no signs of shelf wear; unmarked & appears unread ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 183 pages ... " We now have a few books like ' This Earth, My Brother ' which are bound to stand, it seems to me, not only as chronicles of the first tragic era of African independence but as noble contributions to the art of the world." - The New York Review of Books ... Set in Ghana, this novel echoes many of the obsessive themes of the author's poems. The story describes the pain of Awoonor's voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land ... " This Earth, My Brother " ... by Kofi Awooner ... published by Heinemann London 1972 ...Hardcover in Dustjacket *. As New/As New . USD 70.00** [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 5583 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTRAM, VICKI ED. / KATHLEEN BELL / MEGAN LLOYD DAVIES / AILBHE SMYTH / ET AL Twentieth-Century Women Poets - Kicking Daffodils - 20th Century Female Poets , Including Irish Women's Poetry, Scottish Women's Poetry, War Poetry & More Scotland: Edinburgh University, 1997. 1997 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 x 1" 074860782X 1997 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 320 pages with index ... 20th Century Women Poets ... 18 essays, demonstrating the need for a thorough reinvestigation of the frameworks within which poetry in general, and women's poetry in particular, is read and critiqued. Offers a series of challenging theoretical approaches to poetry, at the same time locating poets in relation to the specific cultural, geographical and literary histories that proceed or surround them .... Chapters are arranged according to six main topics: Women Poets and Modernism; The Politics of Place; ( Post ) Colonial Contexts; The Body; Radical Poetics; and Reconfigurations ... Within these sections, contributors discuss a range of poetry, including War poetry, Irish women's poetry, Scottish women's poetry, anthologies of birth poetry, Caribbean epic poetry, and science and poetry ... Contemporary poets such as Eavan Boland, Jean Binta Breeze, Jackie Kay, Denise Riley, Liz Lochhead and Grace Nichols are also given detailed attention. Rather than trying to establish a separate female poetic tradition or a canon of female poets, the book demonstrates the need for a thorough reinvestigation of the frameworks within which poetry is read and critiqued, foregrounding gender alongside other relevant considerations. " ... Charlotte Mew, T.S. Eliot and Modernism, by Kathleen Bell ... Rehabilitating the Recalcitrant War Poets by Gill Plain ... Bisexuality, Identiy, Imagism by Megan Lloyd Davies ... Sex, Politics & Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry by Ailbhe Smyth ... Women & Poetry in Northern Ireland by Declan Long ... Scottish Women Poets & the Topography of Tongues by Helen Kidd ... Author Vicki Bertram is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Oxford Brookes University ... Kicking Daffodils : Twentieth-Century Women Poets," edited by Vicki Bertram ... published by Edinburgh University Press, 1997 softcover *. New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 5997 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BIERCE , AMBROSE / M.E. GRENANDER Ambrose Bierce , Poems of . . . Edited & Introduced By M.E. Grenander . . . With Essays and Letters on Poets & Poetry Nebraska: Bison Pub, 1996. 1996 Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 " 0803261330 1996 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 202 pages with subject index ... Ambrose Bierce was "an adroit writer of satirical verses savaging 'railrogues,' hypocritical priests and patriots, devious lawyers, and crooked politicians ... Ms. Grenander is reasonable in requesting that Bierce be remembered for more than that invaluable work, The Devils Dictionary" - Atlantic Monthly ... Author of macabre short stories, the classic "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce was also a poet ... The American writer who disappeared into the wilds of Mexico in 1913 is here restored to full voice ... This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems; they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing ... There are also 15 essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humour" and "The Passing of Satire" ... Few authors have been more intimately familiar with wit and satire then the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce ... As editor M.E. Grenander makes plain in her introduction, both are abundantly present in this collection of "some of the most remarkable verse in American literary history." ... " Poems of Ambrose Bierce ( Edited & Introduced by M.E. Grenander ) " ... Softcover Book ... Edited by M.E. Grenader... published by Bison, Nebraska, 1996 Softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6074 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BISSETT, BILL / BILL BISSETT B Leev Abul Char Ak Trs - Believable Characters - By Canadian Poet Bill Bissett Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2000. First Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0889224331 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 144 pages ... in English only ... Canadian poet , poets , poetry , poems ... " b leev abul char ak trs " ... bleevabul charaktrs ... Believable Characters ... Poetry in Phonetics ... Fasincating ! ... by bill bissett ... Bill Bissett ... published by Talonbooks, Canada ...in English only ... 2000 softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4716 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GRIFFIN, HAROLD - SIGNED Confederation and Other Poems - By Harold Griffin - 1966 First Edition, Autographed By Author Vancouver: Commonwealth Fund Pub, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 x 8 " Signed by Author 1966 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... SIGNED & inscribed by author Harold Griffin inside front ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Book is Very Good Plus condition ... Jacket has slight edgewear , marks & usual age darken to small areas ; not as noticeable inside New protective cover ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 48 pages ... in English only .. Harold Griffin was widely known as an editor and contributor to Labour publications ... during the 1930s & 40s.... His long newspaper career took him from Fleet Street, where he received his training with the old Central News Agency, to the Regina Leader, in Saskatchewan, to Vancouver, Canada, where he settled in the early 30s .... His previous writings included the story of the early labor movement in British Columbia. This is his first collected volume of poetry; includes his poems ' Cuba ' ... ' Prairie Drought ' ... ' Confederation ', and others... " Confederation and other Poems " ... by Harold Griffin ..... published by the Commonwealth Fund ... Vancouver ... 1966 ... in English only ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Autographed by the Author ... Nice Clean Gift Giving condition *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 45.00** [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 395 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HARRIS, JANA Dust of Everyday Life, the . . . An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest Seattle: Sasquatch Pub, 1997. First. Hard Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 3/4 " 1570610681 1997 Hardcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... felt pen 2 marks back, does not detract from any text or illustration ... Gift Giving quality .... Glossy cover with linen quarter cloth ... 248 pages ... Cover illustrated with painting by Gayle Bard ... The poineer history of Oregon and Washinton comes alive in this beautifully written book by novelist and poet Jana Harris ... She animates her compelling story with the richness of the event, the intimate rhythms of everyday life, and the unforgettable voices of her characters ... Spanning the years 1853 - 1933 , a time that begins with the ox cart and ends with the airplane , this is the account of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson , whose families confronted the Pacific Northwest , the modern states of Washington and Oregon, when it was still a rugged, difficult , and seemingly limitless wilderness ... Theirs is a story of marriage, family, friends ... and of dreams and disappointments, in the formidable task of settling the American West ... Through dramatic monologue and lucid verse, this book expresses the passionate human spirit evident in pioneering hardship and the satisfaction of having carved out a path to a sometimes pathless place ... Annie Dillard says of this book : " In these poems, Jana Harris has written an accurate and moving account of pioneer life a hundred years ago in Washington State. The varied voices of farmers, Indian women, miners, laundresses, and school teachers, tell their own harsh stories, unforgettably. " ... " The Dust of Everyday Life - An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest " ... by Jana Harris ... published by Sasquatch Publishing, Seattle ... 1997 Hardcover ... *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 6248 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KING, ALFRED CASTNER Passing of the Storm, the - and Other Poems, By Alfred Castner King New York / Toronto / London: Fleming H. Revell Pub, 1907. First Thus. Hard Cover. Photos. 5 x 7 - 3/4 " 1907 Hardcover ... Nice & clean - looks to be unread. Excellent Gift Giving quality. Silver gilt lettering impressed onto decorated boards. This is a beautiful volume, with a six glossy B&W photographs , circa early 1900s, including the 20" foldout panorama photograph intact. One photo depicts the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo Indians. Nature lover, Alfred Castner King was passionate about the old west, and the wilderness of the gold mining days, as well as deeply respectful of the prospectors who mined the gold rush times of the west - he was a man of the mountains, and loved the outdoors as much as Robert Service did. This book of his poetry, most of which was written after an accident left him blinded, is dedicated : " To a rapidly disappearing class, the pioneer prospectors, whose bravery, intelligence and industry blazed the trail in the western wilderness for advancing civilization, and made possible the development of the Great West ". The preface was written in Ouray, Colorado, in 1907, by King. He says in it that "the men who prospected the western mountain ranges for their gold wealth were the cream of American and European manhood... proof of this exists in the names which have lingered behind them, for it was the prospector who christened the mountains, gulches, and mining locations of the West " ... He said that , in 1907, when this book was compiled, you may still occasionally in the mountain districts of the west, see a veteran prospector of the old school, living like a hermit in his log cabin, in some picruresque park or gulch, near his sometimes valuable, sometimes useless, mining claim .. He said that " to your surprise you discover that he can converse entertainingly on any subject ... you may find him to be a Shakespearean scholar ; able to translate Homer or Virgil; the masterpieces of literature are as familiar to him as his own cabin walls" . The six page preface is charming and encapsulates a time gone by in the American west. The poetry is superb pioneer poems - The Passing of an Old Man's Life , The Storm, The Avalanche, The Story of an Exile, The Passing of the Storm, and more testify to the life of the frontier prospectors. " Just then a crashing sound was heard, that casused each ruddy cheek to blanch, Though no one moved or spoke a word, All listening to the avalanche, With apprehensive ears intent, Knew what a mountain snowslide meant, Nor marvel that each visage paled, Nor that the hardy sinews quailed; These terrors of the solitude The mountain's timbered slopes denude, Sweeping the frozen spruce and fir, As with a snowy scimitar " ... After the avalanche had subsided, the characters resumed their ordinary activities, as King writes so clearly in his poems : " As one of the disasters of defeat, Washing the dishes fell to Russian Pete. A game of freeze-out, played with equal zeal, Decided who should cook the evening meal; Conspiring cards electing Uncle Jim, The culinary task devolved on him. " Clear and crsip as a wilderness mountain morn, the poetry of King is right up there with Service, in giving a true picture of pioneer life - a way of life which had all but disappeared shortly after the turn of the 20th century. " The Passing of the Storm and other Poems " by Alfred Castner King ... published by FH Revell Publishing, New York, Toronto & London, 1907. Very nice clean Gift Giving condition *. Very Good Plus . USD 60.00** [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 5895 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN / W.H. AUDEN Poems of Lincoln Kirstein, the New York: Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 7 -1/2 x 9 -1/2" 0689119232 1987 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar Sleeve ... 320 pages poetry with 22 pages text + 5 pages text by W.H.Auden on the first edition of Kirstein's 'Poems of a Pfc', in 1964 ... Lincoln Kirstein , artist & General Director of the New York City Ballet, President of the American School of Ballet, founded the literary journal Hound & Horn, while at Harvard, and subsequently Dance Index.... He founded the precursors of the NYC Ballet, with George Balanchine, in 1934... Here, in one volume, are his poems.... including an entirely new book, Poems of a Patriot, 1955-1985 Ballads Urban and Suburban, in addition to the whole text of his earlier book, Rhymes of a Pfc, first published in 1964.... W.H.Auden says: "I should guess Browning,Hardy and Kipling... to be... his literary influences ....(no) poet.. will read these poems without admiration....his complicated stanzas...he...handles with great ease.... Rhymes of a Pfc....as a picture of the late war...is the most convincing, moving, and impressive book I have come across..." Kirstein had been one of the " Monuments Men " during WWII, one of the group of artists curators and scholars attached to various Allied Army units, as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives recovery effort, under Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the closing days of the Second World War, all across Europe, in a valiant effort to locate and preserve the artwork and other national treasures which had been looted by the Nazis ... Woefully understaffed, their work was unprecedented, and they had to rely on their wits and ingenuity, to try, for the first time in history, to simultaneously save an occupied country's treasures while still fighting a war ... Known affectionately as " Venus " soldiers, after their famed charge, the Venus de Milo , they couldn't recover everything, but, often entering the liberated territories just as the Nazi's were fleeing, even ahead of Allied ground troops, the Venus men were extraordinarily successful in saving the many paintings and statues and other works of art, given the resources they had available ... Called the 'greatest treasure hunt in history' , enormous hiding places and vast storehouses in which the Nazis had squirreled away plundered priceless paintings & antiquities, plus Jewish sacred objects, and objects from Masonic temples, and private collections of art & antiques, were uncovered and saved and returned by the Monuments Men Lincoln & his colleagues, most formerly affiliated with Museums, and sent onto the front lines to move with the combat troops ... Despite the modest title of the early poems herein, Kirstein was a war hero, albeit of a different stripe; he and his small handful of colleagues earned the gratitude of the entire world when their work finally came to light ... " The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein " ... by Lincoln Kirstein , with commentary by W.H. Auden ... published by Atheneum, New York ... 1987 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7056] Book number: 219a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KOPLAND , RUTGER / JAMES BROCKWAY / J.M. COETZEE Memories of the Unknown - Bilingual Edition , in English & Dutch London: Harvill Pub, 2001. First Thus. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-1/2 x 8 " 1860468950 2001 Hardcover in DJ ... 1st English & Dutch bilungual Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New , non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... sm shelf mark to jacket , not noticeable inside New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 111 pages ... all in English, as well as in Dutch ... The works of celebrated Dutch poet Rutger Kopland is , in the words of his translator , the late James Brockway , " a poetry utterly devoid of rhetoric ... which poses questions , without supplying answers " ... It is , he continues " a poetry that has always been written in a simple language taht is not simple at all ... but often leaves one guessing ... A Kopland poem is instantly recognisable as a Kopland poem ... It is international ... Dutch and English , at the same time ... and even when anecdotal , universal in its themes " ... This new selection of Rutger Kopland's poems is the first to be published in England since 1991 , and is published here in parallel text , in the original Dutch , with the poet James Brockway's fine English translations side by side ... " Memories of the Unknown " ... by Rutger Kopland ... Bilingual Edition , in English with Dutch side by side ... translated by James Brockway ... with foreword by J.M. Coetzee ... published by Harvill , London 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5175 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LAUGHLIN , JAMES / VIRGINIA SCHENDLER Phantoms - Poems By James Laughlin , with Photographs By Virginia Schendler New York: Aperture Pub, 1995. First. Softcover. Virginia Schendler Photos. 5 -1/2 x 8 " 0893816132 1995 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original publisher's Shrinkwrap ... Gift Giving quality ... 64 pages ... illustrated with photographs by Virginia Schendler ... ' In combining their work, poet James Laughlin and photographer Virginia Schendler explore independent but complementary ways of seeing ... The poems are not meant as captions for the photographs, nor do the "found" images ... gathered in Manhattan's SoHo and TriBeCa neighborhoods ... function as illustrations to the poems ... But taken together, they reinforce common themes .... the urgencies of time and desire ... the dreamlike qualities of ordinary experience ... Schendler's photos address the illusive nature of a changing city of New York ... while Laughlin's poems, with their colloquial yet eloquent tone, follow the rhythms of the streets ... Playful as well as profound, this collaboration will prompt new associations in the imagination of its audience ... James Laughlin, since 1936 the publisher of New Directions books, is also a noted poet. In his lyrics and in his love poems he blends the spirit of the Latin poets with his own keen ear for the subtleties of colloquial speech ... Beneath the wit of this poetry there are pungent truths about the human condition. His Collected Poems were published in 1994 by Moyer Bell.... Virginia Schendler has photographed inner-city school children, and has made portraits of writers and artists. In the semi-abstract color photographs of this lovely book, she has sought to capture some of New York's own expression: the ironies and the humor, the complex and less-familiar provocations of older parts of the city... " Phantoms " ... Poems by James Laughlin & Photographs by Viriginia Schendler ... published by Aperature Publishing, New York 1995 softcover ... *. New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 6053 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LIVESAY, DOROTHY Dorothy Livesay - the Self-Completing Tree - Selected Poems , By Canadian Poet & Founding Member of Amnesty International Vancouver 1986: Porcepic / Beach Holme Pub, 1999. Second Edition. Soft Cover. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 " 0888782586 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 275 pages ... in English only ... with photo of author inside back ... Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay , who died in 1996 ... began her career alone in her field, and , as she once said " struggled alone to make a woman's voice heard " in Canadian poetry ... She was the author of many many well-known works, including " Winnipeg Childhood " and " The Woman I Am " ... The BC Book Prize for Poetry is named in her honour ... This is the second title to be included in publisher Beach Holme's new Canadian Classics Series ... This book of beautiful poems is Dorothy Livesay's own collection ... of the best of 50 years of her writing ; from 1936 - 1986 ... In this new edition , the Grand Dame of English Canadian letters , and award-winning poet uses the metaphor implied by the title ... a tree ... half verdant ... half in flames ... to symbolize the androgynous self ... This is the theme of much of Livesay's work ... and a central metaphor for the most definitive collection of her poetry ... The result is a spiritual autobiography charting the fascinating domains of her own life ... and the universal struggles we all share ... Dorothy Livesay was the winner of two Governor General Awards , and the Queen's Medal ... as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada ... and the founder and editor of the literary quarterly " CVII " ... She was also a founding member of various organizations , including ... Amnesty International ... and The Committee for an Independent Canada ... as well as The League of Canadian Poets ... Dorothy herself has said of this collection : " This is the selection of poems that I would like to be remembered by " ... " The Self-Completing Tree - Selected Poems " ... by Dorothy Livesay ... published by Porcepic / Beach Holme Publishing , Vancouver *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5232 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MCCAFFERY, STEVE Seven Pages Missing Volume One - Selected Texts 1969-1999 Toronto: Coach House Pub, 2002. 2002 Later Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 155245049X 2002 Softcover 1st , later printing ... Brand new fom publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 464 pages ... Please note, despite the title of this work , there are NO pages missing ! ... That is only the title ! ... This book provides the definitive selection from 3 decades of Steve McCaffery's oeuvre ... As well as ample selections from his major works - The Black Debt, Panopticon, Theory of Sediment and Evoba - this also includes his previously published and visual and concrete poetry ... Born in England, Steve McCaffery has lived in Toronto since 1968 ... An ex-member of the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen, he co-founded the Toronto Research Group (TRG) with bp Nichol in 1973 ... McCaffery is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, twenty chapbooks and four volumes of critical writings ... " Seven Pages Misisng Volume One : Selected Texts 1969-1999 " ... by Steve McCaffery ... published by Coach House Books, Toronto ... in English only ... 2002 softcover *. New . USD 109.95** [Appr.: EURO 73.5 \| £UK 66.25 \| JP¥ 9704] Book number: 6095 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NASH, SUSAN SMITH / DAVID MARTIN Paleontologist's Notebook, a . . . Kingston, New York, U.S.A.: Left Hand Books, 1995. 1995 Printing. Soft Cover. Photos, drawings. 6 x 9" 1880516160 1995 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned, never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 65 pages ... illustrated with Photographs & drawings & facimiles of field notebooks ... During her paleontology work in the Southwestern United States and Bolivia, Susan Smith Nash recorded findings in a set of field books ... This fascinating book contains interconnected poems and prose writings processed from the information she compiled ... In his introduction, David Matlin remarks that her work reminds him of William Carlos Willaims's essay on Poe ... Nash confronts the spectre of mass extinction ... of populations sliding into categories of the surplus ... in rich imagery in her poetry and writings ... Unique poetic and deeply feeling approach to what is thought by some to be a dry science ... " A Paleontologist's Notebook " by Susan Smith Nash ... Introduction by David Matlin ... Bryan McHugh design ... published by Left Hand Books, New York 1995 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6217 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PIERCE, LORNE DR. / MARJORIE PICKTHALL Marjorie Pickthall, the Selected Poems of . . . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1957. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 1957 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Very Good condition ... Nice Clean book, with Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar Sleeve ... jacket slightly chipped with closed 1/2 " tear top left front ... not as noticeable in New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 104 pages ... in English only ... In 1913 ... poet Marjorie Pickthall published her first volume of poetry ... " The Drift of Pinions " and gave to lovers of lyric and romantic beauty a glimpse of that world of the spirit , in which she moved so freely ... Nine years later , in 1922 ... she laid down her pen forever ... The years which elapsed from her death , to the mid 50s ... allowed sufficient perspective to appraise her poems ... and to choose the best from among them ... Editor Lorne Pierce is ideally fitted for this task ... A patron of Canadian poetry, he knew Marjorie Pickthall as few others did ... and was eminently qualified to appreciate this young ro mantic poet ... with whom the old poetic tradition came to its fore-ordained end ... In this volume of 80 poems, Dr. Pierce has selected a wide assortment of her work ... from those poems marked by a youthful exuberance and a close kinship with nature , hushed and tender ... to her mystic verse, tinged with melancholy and deep grief ... and through all, her lyricism - cadened, ecstatic, exquisite ... " The Selected Poems of Marjorie Pickthall " ... edited by Dr. Lorne Pierce ... published by McClelland & Stewart , Toronto ... in English only ... 1957 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Very Nice Clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 25.00** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1194 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	REANEY, JAMES / JOHN BECKWITH Scripts - Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works - Collection of Musical Writings Toronto: Coach House Pub, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. illustrations. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 " 1552451496 2004 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... small feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 360 pages ... all in English only ... with a few illustrations, B&W line drawings, and color opera poster & photo of opening night curtain call of Taptoo ! ... John Reaney is one of Canada's favorite poetes and playwrights ... at the intersection of his dramatic and poetic talents is this book - Scripts ... a collection of musical writings ... There are 9 complete works in this excellent book ... including the chamber opera Night-blooming Cereus, the poetry/music collage ( and Governor General's Award Winner ) , Twelve Letters to a Small Town, the Canada Dot, Canada Dash trilogy ... the detective opera Crazy to Kill, and operas The Shivaree, Taptoo! and Serinette ... Many of these pieces have been published individually, but none are in print, and they have never been amassed in a collection such as this ... With subjects ranging from the personalities of the Great Lakes, to bumblebees ot the founding of the town of York, these works show a vibrant, diverse imagination at its finest... Reaney has won 3 Governor General's Awards for poetry, for The Red Heart and others, and is an acclaimed playwright known for his Donnellys trilogy, amongst others, which have been performed at the Stratford Festival ... John Beckwith, who has writtent the introduction, is the composer of more than 130 musical works and author of Music Papers - Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer 1961 - 1994. He has worked with Raney on many projects, including setting to music all but one of the works in this book ... " Scripts - Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works " ... by James Reaney with intro by John Beckwith ... published by Coach House Publishing, Toronto 2004 First Edition softcover *. NEW . USD 17.95** [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1584] Book number: 5867 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SILK, DENNIS Catwalks , and Overpass - Poems By Dennis Silk - Cat Walks New York: Viking Pub, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0670827819 1990 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked .... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve .... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 100 pages ... Poet Dennis Silk ... The poems in this volume are sometimes humorous ... sometimes harshly moving ... but always amazingly original ..... They express the thoughts and feelings of the perpetual outsider ... The title sequence exposes a dark attitude to the light ... Cairo and New York, Virginia and Israel ... The motifs of a catwalk ... too narrow and frail to maintain the walker ... and of sustaining overpass ... bind the emotion-filled collection of this moving poetry ... " Catwalks and Overpass " ... poems by Dennis Silk ... published by Viking , New York ... 1990 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. NEW/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 49 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SPENDER, STEPHEN Still Centre , Center , the - British Poet Stephen Spender Reading a Selection of His Own Poetry , from His " Collected Poems " and " Dolphins " - Audio Book on Tape , in Stephen Spender's Own Voic London: Penguin Audio, 1997. First Thus. Audio Book (Cassette). 0140863966 Audio Book on Tape in original case ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Still Sealed in Original publisher's shrinkwrap ... sm crack in plastic case under shrinkwrap .. Complete & Unabridged .... Running time approximately 50 minutes ... B&W photograph of Stephen Spender, on the front ..... This extraordinary poetry anthology was recorded by the late Stephen Spender just before his death in 1995 .... One of the greatest modern British poets explores the political and the personal in his work.... On this powerful and moving recording, he reads a selection of his own poetry ... taken from his ' Collected Poems ' ... and ... ' Dolphins ' ... which cover a lifetime of experience ..... Some poems focus on personal memories ... others discuss the war ... and there are several portraits of friends and family to whom he pays tribute...... the distillation of Spender's lifetime body of work...... he represents an entire era in English literature ..... The London Sunday Times said of this recording ... " Genuine originality .. I doubt if any modern poet is so much himself ... or so completely uninfluenced by others " ....... To hear the words of this great poet ... in his own unique, and now-stilled voice ... is to hear new meaning in some of the poems he wrote more than half a century ago .... " The Still Centre " ... by Stephen Spender .... Audio Read by Stephen Spender himself ... imported from London ... Brand New , still sealed in original Shrinkwrap ...*. New . USD 16.95** [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 507 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SPROTT, GAVIN / ROBERT BURNS / JENNI CALDER Robert Burns - Farmer - a Celebration in Words and Pictures of the Life of the Farmer / Poet in Scotland in the Late 18th Century Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. Photos Throughout. 7-3/4 x 8-1/4 " 0948636181 1990 Glossy Softcover Booklet ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... very faint marks to back glossy cover as is usual with this publication ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 58 pages in Glossy illustrated cover, well illustrated throughout with Color and B&W photographs, drawings, paintings, maps, a copy of some writing in Robbie Burns' own handwritiing, conemporary illustrations of rural scenes from the late 1700s, and lovely color photographs of scenes today, which were some of Burns favorite places in his time ... including his own farm, Mount Oliphant, and Galston, and the banks of the Nith, where he spent many happy hours; the site where he wrote Tam o' Shanter ... This is a well presented booklet giving an instant overview of life in the time of the great Scottish writer Robert Burns, and what it meant to live in rural areas, and to be a farmer, as he was, and as his father was before him ... interspersed with bits of his own poems, including The Holy Fair, and more ... What did it mean to live as a farmer in the late 1700s ? ... How did one work, and support oneself in the days of ' old fashioned ' farming, before the modern ' factory farming ' had ever even been dreamt of ? ... How did that tally with his aspirations as a poet ? ... He has crystal clear imagery of the life in images in many of his poems ... What did it mean to live a life as Burns did, as many did, including many of our ancestors, in pre-Victorian Scotland ? ... This is history, and poetry, and literary history, and agricultural history, as well as art history, through the beautiful and detailed paintings of the day ... but in a personal style which engages the reader and transports the reader to a time gone by ... Arran, Ayershire, Dumfries, Lochlie, Tarbolton, Falkirk, Alloway, and many more place names dear to the hearts of Scots and those of Scottish ancestry everywhere, as well as fans of the inspiring Mr. Burns himself ... as well as a painting of Johnnie Shanter, at Glenfoot, near Arochan, near Shanter, probably the inspiration for the shoemaker in Tam o' Shanter ... with interesting photographs from the Scottish Museumes of some of the farming implements , and kitchen ware, used in a time gone by ... Nearly 8" square and light in weight, this is just the booklet for for tucking into the backpack on tramps around Burns country, or sending to a friend to share Robbie Burns Days celebrations ... Written in an interesting, gentle style, this is hours of enjoyment for poets, dreamers, farmers, history buffs, travellers, and armchair travellers everywhere ... " Robert Burns - Farmer " ... by Gavin Sprott, edited by Jenni Calder, with photographs by Ian Larner , Doreen Moyes ... published by the National Museums of Scotland ... 1990 ... Glossy Softcover booklet *. New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6440 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SWENSEN, MARGARET R. , SIGNED / WILLIS EUGENE ROBISON As Life Passes - Willis Eugene Robison - Selected Poetry of America's West , Western Frontier in the Late 1800s . . . Signed / Autographed By Margaret R. Swensen , Granddaughter of Robinson , 19th Century Farmer, Legislator, Explorer, Missionary Arkansas: Publication Consultants, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 x 1 " 1888125217 Signed by Author 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Signed by the Author , Margaret R. Swensen ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, clear non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked, except by author to autograph ... 256 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs throughout ... The author, who is Willis Eugene Robison 's granddaughter, signed on title page, " Warmest Wishes, Margaret R. Swensen " ... This book is a remarkable collection of poems written at the turn of the century by Willis Eugene Robison ... An assembly of his finest poems ... this book shows that the values of Willis' time in history , are the same yesterday, today, and tomor row ... Willis' wit, wisdom, and insight is as fresh as today ... yet it gives the reader a vivid picture of the American frontier in the late 1800s ... This was compiled and edited by Margaret R. Swensen , who is Willis Eugene Robison's granddaugh ter ... " As Life Passes - Selected Poetry of Amercia's Western Frontier " ... by Margaret R. Swensen ... based on poems by her grandfather , Willis Eugene Robison ... published by Publication Consultants , Arkansas ... 1997 First Edition signed ... Brand New Gift Giving condition , autographed by the author *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4643 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THESEN, SHARON , ED. / MICHAEL ONDAATJE / LISA ROBERTSON / ET AL New Long Poem Anthology, the . . . Updated & Revised 2nd Edition Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001. Updated & Revised 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. 6 - 1/2 x 9 - 3/4 " 0889224382 Softcover updated & revised 2nd Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 496 pages ... The New Long Poem Anthology: Second Edition is an irreplaceable roadmap of a vital and powerful poetic form, a record of the most seductive and sustained 'singing talk' in post-modern Canadian writing ... Edited by Sharon Thesen, this collection of long poems, longer works, sequential poems, extended poems, serial, lengthly or longish poems extend the geography of post-modern Canadian poetry as it was laid out in 1979 ... exemplifying Michael Ondaatje's early observation that "the most interesting work being done by poets today can be found within the structure of the long poem." ... Wi th a statement of poetics and short bibliography from each author ... this anthology includes work by: Robin Blaser ... George Bowering ... Dionne Brand ... Anne Carson ... Jeff Derksen ... Christopher Dewdney ... Louis Dudek ... Patrick Friesen ... Diana Hartog ... Roy Kiyooka ... Robert Kroetsch ... Daphne Marlatt ... Steve McCaffery ... David W. McFadden ... Don McKay ... Barry McKinnon ... Erin Moure ... bpNichol ... Michael Ondaatje ... Lisa Robertson ... George Stanley ... Lola Lemire ... Tostevin ...Yolande Villemaire ... Fred Wah and Phyllis Webb ... " The New Long Poem Anthology " updated & revised Second Edition ... edithed by Sharon Thesen ... published by Talonbooks Publishing, Vancouver ... 2001 softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality . New . USD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4696 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOZNESENSKY , ANDREI Arrow in the Wall , an . . . Selected Poetry and Prose By the Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky , Translated Into English By W.H. Auden , Robert Bly , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg & More New York: Henry Holt pub, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 080500100X 1987 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket corner clipped , protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve.... Gift Giving quality ... 340 pages ... all in English only ... Andrei Voznesensky ... Russia's leading poet ... in his own country he achieved the popularity of a film star .... The art critic John Russell described his appearance in London in the 1960s ... " He read on the same bill as Laurence Olivier .. Paul Scofield and Nicol Williamson .... All were at their best .... but even so ... it was Andrei Voznesensky whom people talked about on the way home " ..... This book includes 2 extraordinary autobiographical essays .... one ... a moving trib ute to his mentor , Boris Pasternak .... the other .... a memoir of his youth during WWII ..... the translators who put this historical & fascinating book into the English language include such notables as W.H.Auden ... Robert Bly ... Lawrence Ferl inghetti ... Allen Ginsberg ... F.D.Reeve ... " An Arrow in the Wall " ... by Andrei Voznesensky ... editors Wm.Jay Smith and F.D.Reeve ... essays translated into English by Antonina W. Bouis ... published by Henry Holt , New York ... 1987 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 93 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WALLACE, J.S. / MARGARET FAIRLEY / E.J.PRATT Night Is Ended - Thoughts in Lyric - Labour Poet J.S. Wallace - Behind Prison Bars & More - Poetry & Music with Lyrics Winnipeg: Contemporary Pub, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Harry Gutrin drawings. 5 x 8 " 1942 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... Nice Clean Gift Giving collectible quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... very tiny shelf rubbing at corners ... wartime soft paper jacket has chips, small tear top & small discolor marks on off-white edges , not as noticeable inside New sleeve .... original printer's info. inside page , slight crease in binding .... 95 pages ... in English only ... forewords by Margaret Fairley & E.J. Pratt , illustrated with portrait of Wallace ... in jacket illustrated with sepia-toned drawing by Harry Gutrin ...This rare book is the first published volume of verse & song by a Canadian Labor Poet .... J.S. Wallace had built up a thriving advertising business before he abandoned it for a life of service to the labour movement ... writing extensively for the labour and union press .... Persecuted for his beliefs, he spent long months in jail in Petawawa, Ontario and then in Hull... in solitary confinement ... imprisoned under the Defense of Canada regulations act in 1940 ... Throughout his prison life, J.S. Wallace wrote many poems and songs .... most of which are included in this first collection of his work ... it was published only months after popular demand returned Wallace to freedom ... and to contined work in the service of the people.... At time of publication, in 1942 , Wallace, in addition to his writings, was busy at a machinist's course ... preparing for an additional contribution ... that of a war worker in one of Canada's war plants..... This book has a foreward by Margaret Fairley in which she introduces him to '... those readers who are, in these pages, meeting a Left - Wing poet for the first time .... readers will be driven by the open sincerity and the deep emotion of these poems....' E.J.Pratt says " These poems are genuine lyrics ... I like the impact ...." Includes 6 Chapters of poetry & music with lyrics ... Behind Prison Bars, Dreams and Fancies, Lov e and Friendship, Experience, The Old Order, The New Hope, and Spain .... important history of the early Labor dissent movement ... " Night is Ended - Thoughts in Lyric " ... by J.S. Wallace ... forewords by Margaret Fairley & E.J. Pratt ... illustrated ... published by Contemporary Publishers , Winnipeg ... in English only ... 1942 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. Very Good/Good + . USD 60.00** [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 400 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.

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	AMES, VAN METER Out of Iowa - a Poem By Van Meter Ames - Signed By the Author, to Author Carl Grabo New York: Henry Harrison Pub, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Signed by Author 1936 First Edition HARDCOVER in DJ ... Signed by author Van Meter Ames , to author Carl Grabo, dated 1936, and mentioning fellow professor and author R.C. Stephenson ... Robert Clarence Stephenson, ' lover of letters ' , to whom this book is dedicated .... * .... This is the only poetry book by Van Meter Ames, who wrote many philosophical books and papers ... Ames says in the preface : " He who theroizes about art should expose himself in turn to the analysis of others ; if he cannot dance or paint, he can write; if he has no other subject he has himself. I have tried expressing my sense of beauty ... in the ... litany of little things remembered from childhood ... Words sing with their own music .... " ... Born July 9, 1898 in De Soto, Iowa, Ames was the son of Mabel Van Meter Ames and Edward Scribner Ames ( 1870-1958 ) , who taught in the Philosophy department at the University of Chicago ... Van Meter Ames received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1924, and Ames joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 1925 , where he became chairman of the department of philosophy in 1959 ... After a long and distinguished career ... during which he received a Rockefeller grant to study French philosophy in 1948, was named Fulbright research professor at Komazawa University in Tokyo, and had interim appointments at Cornell University ... the University of Texas ... the University of Hawaii ... New York's Columbia University ... and the University of Aix-Marseille where he was the first American faculty member ... Ames retired in 1966 ... and then was designated Humanist Fellow for Outstanding Contributions to Humanist Thought in Ethics and Aesthetics, by the American Humanist Association, in 1976 ... His papers are held at the University of Chicago archives, and have been published by the American Philosophical Association ... This is a lovely, long, stream of consciousness poem to the memory of turn-of-the-century and early 20th century Prohibition-era Iowa , and those dreamy days of milkmen making the rounds with their horses at dawn, and the ice man delivering his wares, and girls in dresses that they had made themselves, out walking on a sunny afternoon with boys they loved ... Beautiful, evocative imagery, brings back memories of town life everywhere in America in some ... and, for others, evokes nostalgia for a time they never knew ... " We picked our way through the ruins of a shingle factory, the largest in the world when virgin forest was uncut; We skirted the foundations of a deserted brickyard, and a canning factory on the edge of failure, before we reached the leaning ice house, where a bearded ice man delved in the smell of sawdust; When it was late ... going home between rows of once-saloons and little shops doing summer business, past the empty exclamation of a castle; battlement for a grand hotel, but never finished; on down the quiet street of tiny houses and large trees; In a red-trimmed dress of tan percale she made herself, to my delight, Isabel walked with me ... Isabel wore overalls of blue and red, when we walked through morning woods and arrived too early for the mail; where residents of the Civil War, in black felt hats and square white beards, rehearsed with canes and maps imagined on the walk, campaigns of 1863 and '64 " ... Touching, beautiful memoir ... " Out of Iowa - A Poem " ... by Van Meter Ames ... published by Henry Harrison poetry publisher, New York ... 1936 ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Signed by the author , to author Carl Grabo ... * Securely packed for Safe Delivery ~ Books shipped across America and around the world, since 1965 *. Fair/Fair . USD 40.00** [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 6490 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	AWOONOR, KOFI This Earth, My Brother London: Heinemann Ed. Pub, 1972. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 x 8 " 0435906348 1972 HARDCOVER in DJ ... AS NEW ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... Includes original insert slip from Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. inside ... Book & DJ show virturally no signs of shelf wear; unmarked & appears unread ... Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... 183 pages ... " We now have a few books like ' This Earth, My Brother ' which are bound to stand, it seems to me, not only as chronicles of the first tragic era of African independence but as noble contributions to the art of the world." - The New York Review of Books ... Set in Ghana, this novel echoes many of the obsessive themes of the author's poems. The story describes the pain of Awoonor's voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land ... " This Earth, My Brother " ... by Kofi Awooner ... published by Heinemann London 1972 ...Hardcover in Dustjacket *. As New/As New . USD 70.00** [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 5583 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BERTRAM, VICKI ED. / KATHLEEN BELL / MEGAN LLOYD DAVIES / AILBHE SMYTH / ET AL Twentieth-Century Women Poets - Kicking Daffodils - 20th Century Female Poets , Including Irish Women's Poetry, Scottish Women's Poetry, War Poetry & More Scotland: Edinburgh University, 1997. 1997 Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 x 1" 074860782X 1997 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 320 pages with index ... 20th Century Women Poets ... 18 essays, demonstrating the need for a thorough reinvestigation of the frameworks within which poetry in general, and women's poetry in particular, is read and critiqued. Offers a series of challenging theoretical approaches to poetry, at the same time locating poets in relation to the specific cultural, geographical and literary histories that proceed or surround them .... Chapters are arranged according to six main topics: Women Poets and Modernism; The Politics of Place; ( Post ) Colonial Contexts; The Body; Radical Poetics; and Reconfigurations ... Within these sections, contributors discuss a range of poetry, including War poetry, Irish women's poetry, Scottish women's poetry, anthologies of birth poetry, Caribbean epic poetry, and science and poetry ... Contemporary poets such as Eavan Boland, Jean Binta Breeze, Jackie Kay, Denise Riley, Liz Lochhead and Grace Nichols are also given detailed attention. Rather than trying to establish a separate female poetic tradition or a canon of female poets, the book demonstrates the need for a thorough reinvestigation of the frameworks within which poetry is read and critiqued, foregrounding gender alongside other relevant considerations. " ... Charlotte Mew, T.S. Eliot and Modernism, by Kathleen Bell ... Rehabilitating the Recalcitrant War Poets by Gill Plain ... Bisexuality, Identiy, Imagism by Megan Lloyd Davies ... Sex, Politics & Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry by Ailbhe Smyth ... Women & Poetry in Northern Ireland by Declan Long ... Scottish Women Poets & the Topography of Tongues by Helen Kidd ... Author Vicki Bertram is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Oxford Brookes University ... Kicking Daffodils : Twentieth-Century Women Poets," edited by Vicki Bertram ... published by Edinburgh University Press, 1997 softcover *. New . USD 25.95** [Appr.: EURO 17.5 \| £UK 15.75 \| JP¥ 2290] Book number: 5997 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BIERCE , AMBROSE / M.E. GRENANDER Ambrose Bierce , Poems of . . . Edited & Introduced By M.E. Grenander . . . With Essays and Letters on Poets & Poetry Nebraska: Bison Pub, 1996. 1996 Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 " 0803261330 1996 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 202 pages with subject index ... Ambrose Bierce was "an adroit writer of satirical verses savaging 'railrogues,' hypocritical priests and patriots, devious lawyers, and crooked politicians ... Ms. Grenander is reasonable in requesting that Bierce be remembered for more than that invaluable work, The Devils Dictionary" - Atlantic Monthly ... Author of macabre short stories, the classic "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce was also a poet ... The American writer who disappeared into the wilds of Mexico in 1913 is here restored to full voice ... This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems; they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing ... There are also 15 essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humour" and "The Passing of Satire" ... Few authors have been more intimately familiar with wit and satire then the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce ... As editor M.E. Grenander makes plain in her introduction, both are abundantly present in this collection of "some of the most remarkable verse in American literary history." ... " Poems of Ambrose Bierce ( Edited & Introduced by M.E. Grenander ) " ... Softcover Book ... Edited by M.E. Grenader... published by Bison, Nebraska, 1996 Softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6074 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	BISSETT, BILL / BILL BISSETT B Leev Abul Char Ak Trs - Believable Characters - By Canadian Poet Bill Bissett Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2000. First Printing. Soft Cover. 6 x 9 " 0889224331 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 144 pages ... in English only ... Canadian poet , poets , poetry , poems ... " b leev abul char ak trs " ... bleevabul charaktrs ... Believable Characters ... Poetry in Phonetics ... Fasincating ! ... by bill bissett ... Bill Bissett ... published by Talonbooks, Canada ...in English only ... 2000 softcover *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 4716 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	GRIFFIN, HAROLD - SIGNED Confederation and Other Poems - By Harold Griffin - 1966 First Edition, Autographed By Author Vancouver: Commonwealth Fund Pub, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5 x 8 " Signed by Author 1966 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... SIGNED & inscribed by author Harold Griffin inside front ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Book is Very Good Plus condition ... Jacket has slight edgewear , marks & usual age darken to small areas ; not as noticeable inside New protective cover ... Nice Clean Gift Giving quality ... 48 pages ... in English only .. Harold Griffin was widely known as an editor and contributor to Labour publications ... during the 1930s & 40s.... His long newspaper career took him from Fleet Street, where he received his training with the old Central News Agency, to the Regina Leader, in Saskatchewan, to Vancouver, Canada, where he settled in the early 30s .... His previous writings included the story of the early labor movement in British Columbia. This is his first collected volume of poetry; includes his poems ' Cuba ' ... ' Prairie Drought ' ... ' Confederation ', and others... " Confederation and other Poems " ... by Harold Griffin ..... published by the Commonwealth Fund ... Vancouver ... 1966 ... in English only ... First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Autographed by the Author ... Nice Clean Gift Giving condition *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 45.00** [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 395 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	HARRIS, JANA Dust of Everyday Life, the . . . An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest Seattle: Sasquatch Pub, 1997. First. Hard Cover. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 3/4 " 1570610681 1997 Hardcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... felt pen 2 marks back, does not detract from any text or illustration ... Gift Giving quality .... Glossy cover with linen quarter cloth ... 248 pages ... Cover illustrated with painting by Gayle Bard ... The poineer history of Oregon and Washinton comes alive in this beautifully written book by novelist and poet Jana Harris ... She animates her compelling story with the richness of the event, the intimate rhythms of everyday life, and the unforgettable voices of her characters ... Spanning the years 1853 - 1933 , a time that begins with the ox cart and ends with the airplane , this is the account of Helen Walsh and Thomas Hodgson , whose families confronted the Pacific Northwest , the modern states of Washington and Oregon, when it was still a rugged, difficult , and seemingly limitless wilderness ... Theirs is a story of marriage, family, friends ... and of dreams and disappointments, in the formidable task of settling the American West ... Through dramatic monologue and lucid verse, this book expresses the passionate human spirit evident in pioneering hardship and the satisfaction of having carved out a path to a sometimes pathless place ... Annie Dillard says of this book : " In these poems, Jana Harris has written an accurate and moving account of pioneer life a hundred years ago in Washington State. The varied voices of farmers, Indian women, miners, laundresses, and school teachers, tell their own harsh stories, unforgettably. " ... " The Dust of Everyday Life - An Epic Poem of the Pacific Northwest " ... by Jana Harris ... published by Sasquatch Publishing, Seattle ... 1997 Hardcover ... *. NEW . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 6248 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KING, ALFRED CASTNER Passing of the Storm, the - and Other Poems, By Alfred Castner King New York / Toronto / London: Fleming H. Revell Pub, 1907. First Thus. Hard Cover. Photos. 5 x 7 - 3/4 " 1907 Hardcover ... Nice & clean - looks to be unread. Excellent Gift Giving quality. Silver gilt lettering impressed onto decorated boards. This is a beautiful volume, with a six glossy B&W photographs , circa early 1900s, including the 20" foldout panorama photograph intact. One photo depicts the cliff dwellings of the Pueblo Indians. Nature lover, Alfred Castner King was passionate about the old west, and the wilderness of the gold mining days, as well as deeply respectful of the prospectors who mined the gold rush times of the west - he was a man of the mountains, and loved the outdoors as much as Robert Service did. This book of his poetry, most of which was written after an accident left him blinded, is dedicated : " To a rapidly disappearing class, the pioneer prospectors, whose bravery, intelligence and industry blazed the trail in the western wilderness for advancing civilization, and made possible the development of the Great West ". The preface was written in Ouray, Colorado, in 1907, by King. He says in it that "the men who prospected the western mountain ranges for their gold wealth were the cream of American and European manhood... proof of this exists in the names which have lingered behind them, for it was the prospector who christened the mountains, gulches, and mining locations of the West " ... He said that , in 1907, when this book was compiled, you may still occasionally in the mountain districts of the west, see a veteran prospector of the old school, living like a hermit in his log cabin, in some picruresque park or gulch, near his sometimes valuable, sometimes useless, mining claim .. He said that " to your surprise you discover that he can converse entertainingly on any subject ... you may find him to be a Shakespearean scholar ; able to translate Homer or Virgil; the masterpieces of literature are as familiar to him as his own cabin walls" . The six page preface is charming and encapsulates a time gone by in the American west. The poetry is superb pioneer poems - The Passing of an Old Man's Life , The Storm, The Avalanche, The Story of an Exile, The Passing of the Storm, and more testify to the life of the frontier prospectors. " Just then a crashing sound was heard, that casused each ruddy cheek to blanch, Though no one moved or spoke a word, All listening to the avalanche, With apprehensive ears intent, Knew what a mountain snowslide meant, Nor marvel that each visage paled, Nor that the hardy sinews quailed; These terrors of the solitude The mountain's timbered slopes denude, Sweeping the frozen spruce and fir, As with a snowy scimitar " ... After the avalanche had subsided, the characters resumed their ordinary activities, as King writes so clearly in his poems : " As one of the disasters of defeat, Washing the dishes fell to Russian Pete. A game of freeze-out, played with equal zeal, Decided who should cook the evening meal; Conspiring cards electing Uncle Jim, The culinary task devolved on him. " Clear and crsip as a wilderness mountain morn, the poetry of King is right up there with Service, in giving a true picture of pioneer life - a way of life which had all but disappeared shortly after the turn of the 20th century. " The Passing of the Storm and other Poems " by Alfred Castner King ... published by FH Revell Publishing, New York, Toronto & London, 1907. Very nice clean Gift Giving condition *. Very Good Plus . USD 60.00** [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 5895 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KIRSTEIN, LINCOLN / W.H. AUDEN Poems of Lincoln Kirstein, the New York: Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 7 -1/2 x 9 -1/2" 0689119232 1987 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar Sleeve ... 320 pages poetry with 22 pages text + 5 pages text by W.H.Auden on the first edition of Kirstein's 'Poems of a Pfc', in 1964 ... Lincoln Kirstein , artist & General Director of the New York City Ballet, President of the American School of Ballet, founded the literary journal Hound & Horn, while at Harvard, and subsequently Dance Index.... He founded the precursors of the NYC Ballet, with George Balanchine, in 1934... Here, in one volume, are his poems.... including an entirely new book, Poems of a Patriot, 1955-1985 Ballads Urban and Suburban, in addition to the whole text of his earlier book, Rhymes of a Pfc, first published in 1964.... W.H.Auden says: "I should guess Browning,Hardy and Kipling... to be... his literary influences ....(no) poet.. will read these poems without admiration....his complicated stanzas...he...handles with great ease.... Rhymes of a Pfc....as a picture of the late war...is the most convincing, moving, and impressive book I have come across..." Kirstein had been one of the " Monuments Men " during WWII, one of the group of artists curators and scholars attached to various Allied Army units, as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives recovery effort, under Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the closing days of the Second World War, all across Europe, in a valiant effort to locate and preserve the artwork and other national treasures which had been looted by the Nazis ... Woefully understaffed, their work was unprecedented, and they had to rely on their wits and ingenuity, to try, for the first time in history, to simultaneously save an occupied country's treasures while still fighting a war ... Known affectionately as " Venus " soldiers, after their famed charge, the Venus de Milo , they couldn't recover everything, but, often entering the liberated territories just as the Nazi's were fleeing, even ahead of Allied ground troops, the Venus men were extraordinarily successful in saving the many paintings and statues and other works of art, given the resources they had available ... Called the 'greatest treasure hunt in history' , enormous hiding places and vast storehouses in which the Nazis had squirreled away plundered priceless paintings & antiquities, plus Jewish sacred objects, and objects from Masonic temples, and private collections of art & antiques, were uncovered and saved and returned by the Monuments Men Lincoln & his colleagues, most formerly affiliated with Museums, and sent onto the front lines to move with the combat troops ... Despite the modest title of the early poems herein, Kirstein was a war hero, albeit of a different stripe; he and his small handful of colleagues earned the gratitude of the entire world when their work finally came to light ... " The Poems of Lincoln Kirstein " ... by Lincoln Kirstein , with commentary by W.H. Auden ... published by Atheneum, New York ... 1987 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. New/New . USD 79.95** [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7056] Book number: 219a Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	KOPLAND , RUTGER / JAMES BROCKWAY / J.M. COETZEE Memories of the Unknown - Bilingual Edition , in English & Dutch London: Harvill Pub, 2001. First Thus. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 5-1/2 x 8 " 1860468950 2001 Hardcover in DJ ... 1st English & Dutch bilungual Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New , non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... sm shelf mark to jacket , not noticeable inside New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 111 pages ... all in English, as well as in Dutch ... The works of celebrated Dutch poet Rutger Kopland is , in the words of his translator , the late James Brockway , " a poetry utterly devoid of rhetoric ... which poses questions , without supplying answers " ... It is , he continues " a poetry that has always been written in a simple language taht is not simple at all ... but often leaves one guessing ... A Kopland poem is instantly recognisable as a Kopland poem ... It is international ... Dutch and English , at the same time ... and even when anecdotal , universal in its themes " ... This new selection of Rutger Kopland's poems is the first to be published in England since 1991 , and is published here in parallel text , in the original Dutch , with the poet James Brockway's fine English translations side by side ... " Memories of the Unknown " ... by Rutger Kopland ... Bilingual Edition , in English with Dutch side by side ... translated by James Brockway ... with foreword by J.M. Coetzee ... published by Harvill , London 2001 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 5175 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LAUGHLIN , JAMES / VIRGINIA SCHENDLER Phantoms - Poems By James Laughlin , with Photographs By Virginia Schendler New York: Aperture Pub, 1995. First. Softcover. Virginia Schendler Photos. 5 -1/2 x 8 " 0893816132 1995 Softcover 1st ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Still Sealed in original publisher's Shrinkwrap ... Gift Giving quality ... 64 pages ... illustrated with photographs by Virginia Schendler ... ' In combining their work, poet James Laughlin and photographer Virginia Schendler explore independent but complementary ways of seeing ... The poems are not meant as captions for the photographs, nor do the "found" images ... gathered in Manhattan's SoHo and TriBeCa neighborhoods ... function as illustrations to the poems ... But taken together, they reinforce common themes .... the urgencies of time and desire ... the dreamlike qualities of ordinary experience ... Schendler's photos address the illusive nature of a changing city of New York ... while Laughlin's poems, with their colloquial yet eloquent tone, follow the rhythms of the streets ... Playful as well as profound, this collaboration will prompt new associations in the imagination of its audience ... James Laughlin, since 1936 the publisher of New Directions books, is also a noted poet. In his lyrics and in his love poems he blends the spirit of the Latin poets with his own keen ear for the subtleties of colloquial speech ... Beneath the wit of this poetry there are pungent truths about the human condition. His Collected Poems were published in 1994 by Moyer Bell.... Virginia Schendler has photographed inner-city school children, and has made portraits of writers and artists. In the semi-abstract color photographs of this lovely book, she has sought to capture some of New York's own expression: the ironies and the humor, the complex and less-familiar provocations of older parts of the city... " Phantoms " ... Poems by James Laughlin & Photographs by Viriginia Schendler ... published by Aperature Publishing, New York 1995 softcover ... *. New . USD 22.95** [Appr.: EURO 15.5 \| £UK 14 \| JP¥ 2026] Book number: 6053 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	LIVESAY, DOROTHY Dorothy Livesay - the Self-Completing Tree - Selected Poems , By Canadian Poet & Founding Member of Amnesty International Vancouver 1986: Porcepic / Beach Holme Pub, 1999. Second Edition. Soft Cover. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 " 0888782586 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 275 pages ... in English only ... with photo of author inside back ... Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay , who died in 1996 ... began her career alone in her field, and , as she once said " struggled alone to make a woman's voice heard " in Canadian poetry ... She was the author of many many well-known works, including " Winnipeg Childhood " and " The Woman I Am " ... The BC Book Prize for Poetry is named in her honour ... This is the second title to be included in publisher Beach Holme's new Canadian Classics Series ... This book of beautiful poems is Dorothy Livesay's own collection ... of the best of 50 years of her writing ; from 1936 - 1986 ... In this new edition , the Grand Dame of English Canadian letters , and award-winning poet uses the metaphor implied by the title ... a tree ... half verdant ... half in flames ... to symbolize the androgynous self ... This is the theme of much of Livesay's work ... and a central metaphor for the most definitive collection of her poetry ... The result is a spiritual autobiography charting the fascinating domains of her own life ... and the universal struggles we all share ... Dorothy Livesay was the winner of two Governor General Awards , and the Queen's Medal ... as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada ... and the founder and editor of the literary quarterly " CVII " ... She was also a founding member of various organizations , including ... Amnesty International ... and The Committee for an Independent Canada ... as well as The League of Canadian Poets ... Dorothy herself has said of this collection : " This is the selection of poems that I would like to be remembered by " ... " The Self-Completing Tree - Selected Poems " ... by Dorothy Livesay ... published by Porcepic / Beach Holme Publishing , Vancouver *. NEW . USD 9.95** [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6 \| JP¥ 878] Book number: 5232 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	MCCAFFERY, STEVE Seven Pages Missing Volume One - Selected Texts 1969-1999 Toronto: Coach House Pub, 2002. 2002 Later Printing. Soft Cover. 5-1/2 x 9 x 1-1/4 " 155245049X 2002 Softcover 1st , later printing ... Brand new fom publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 464 pages ... Please note, despite the title of this work , there are NO pages missing ! ... That is only the title ! ... This book provides the definitive selection from 3 decades of Steve McCaffery's oeuvre ... As well as ample selections from his major works - The Black Debt, Panopticon, Theory of Sediment and Evoba - this also includes his previously published and visual and concrete poetry ... Born in England, Steve McCaffery has lived in Toronto since 1968 ... An ex-member of the sound poetry ensemble The Four Horsemen, he co-founded the Toronto Research Group (TRG) with bp Nichol in 1973 ... McCaffery is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, twenty chapbooks and four volumes of critical writings ... " Seven Pages Misisng Volume One : Selected Texts 1969-1999 " ... by Steve McCaffery ... published by Coach House Books, Toronto ... in English only ... 2002 softcover *. New . USD 109.95** [Appr.: EURO 73.5 \| £UK 66.25 \| JP¥ 9704] Book number: 6095 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	NASH, SUSAN SMITH / DAVID MARTIN Paleontologist's Notebook, a . . . Kingston, New York, U.S.A.: Left Hand Books, 1995. 1995 Printing. Soft Cover. Photos, drawings. 6 x 9" 1880516160 1995 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher .... Never opened, Never owned, never marked ... Gift Giving quality ... 65 pages ... illustrated with Photographs & drawings & facimiles of field notebooks ... During her paleontology work in the Southwestern United States and Bolivia, Susan Smith Nash recorded findings in a set of field books ... This fascinating book contains interconnected poems and prose writings processed from the information she compiled ... In his introduction, David Matlin remarks that her work reminds him of William Carlos Willaims's essay on Poe ... Nash confronts the spectre of mass extinction ... of populations sliding into categories of the surplus ... in rich imagery in her poetry and writings ... Unique poetic and deeply feeling approach to what is thought by some to be a dry science ... " A Paleontologist's Notebook " by Susan Smith Nash ... Introduction by David Matlin ... Bryan McHugh design ... published by Left Hand Books, New York 1995 softcover ... *. NEW . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6217 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	PIERCE, LORNE DR. / MARJORIE PICKTHALL Marjorie Pickthall, the Selected Poems of . . . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1957. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 1957 Hardcover in DJ 1st ... Very Good condition ... Nice Clean book, with Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar Sleeve ... jacket slightly chipped with closed 1/2 " tear top left front ... not as noticeable in New sleeve ... Gift Giving quality ... 104 pages ... in English only ... In 1913 ... poet Marjorie Pickthall published her first volume of poetry ... " The Drift of Pinions " and gave to lovers of lyric and romantic beauty a glimpse of that world of the spirit , in which she moved so freely ... Nine years later , in 1922 ... she laid down her pen forever ... The years which elapsed from her death , to the mid 50s ... allowed sufficient perspective to appraise her poems ... and to choose the best from among them ... Editor Lorne Pierce is ideally fitted for this task ... A patron of Canadian poetry, he knew Marjorie Pickthall as few others did ... and was eminently qualified to appreciate this young ro mantic poet ... with whom the old poetic tradition came to its fore-ordained end ... In this volume of 80 poems, Dr. Pierce has selected a wide assortment of her work ... from those poems marked by a youthful exuberance and a close kinship with nature , hushed and tender ... to her mystic verse, tinged with melancholy and deep grief ... and through all, her lyricism - cadened, ecstatic, exquisite ... " The Selected Poems of Marjorie Pickthall " ... edited by Dr. Lorne Pierce ... published by McClelland & Stewart , Toronto ... in English only ... 1957 Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Very Nice Clean Gift Giving quality *. Very Good/Very Good . USD 25.00** [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 1194 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	REANEY, JAMES / JOHN BECKWITH Scripts - Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works - Collection of Musical Writings Toronto: Coach House Pub, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. illustrations. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 " 1552451496 2004 Softcover ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned ... small feltpen mark bottom edge ... Gift Giving quality ... 360 pages ... all in English only ... with a few illustrations, B&W line drawings, and color opera poster & photo of opening night curtain call of Taptoo ! ... John Reaney is one of Canada's favorite poetes and playwrights ... at the intersection of his dramatic and poetic talents is this book - Scripts ... a collection of musical writings ... There are 9 complete works in this excellent book ... including the chamber opera Night-blooming Cereus, the poetry/music collage ( and Governor General's Award Winner ) , Twelve Letters to a Small Town, the Canada Dot, Canada Dash trilogy ... the detective opera Crazy to Kill, and operas The Shivaree, Taptoo! and Serinette ... Many of these pieces have been published individually, but none are in print, and they have never been amassed in a collection such as this ... With subjects ranging from the personalities of the Great Lakes, to bumblebees ot the founding of the town of York, these works show a vibrant, diverse imagination at its finest... Reaney has won 3 Governor General's Awards for poetry, for The Red Heart and others, and is an acclaimed playwright known for his Donnellys trilogy, amongst others, which have been performed at the Stratford Festival ... John Beckwith, who has writtent the introduction, is the composer of more than 130 musical works and author of Music Papers - Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer 1961 - 1994. He has worked with Raney on many projects, including setting to music all but one of the works in this book ... " Scripts - Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works " ... by James Reaney with intro by John Beckwith ... published by Coach House Publishing, Toronto 2004 First Edition softcover *. NEW . USD 17.95** [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1584] Book number: 5867 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SILK, DENNIS Catwalks , and Overpass - Poems By Dennis Silk - Cat Walks New York: Viking Pub, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0670827819 1990 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from the publisher ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked .... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve .... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 100 pages ... Poet Dennis Silk ... The poems in this volume are sometimes humorous ... sometimes harshly moving ... but always amazingly original ..... They express the thoughts and feelings of the perpetual outsider ... The title sequence exposes a dark attitude to the light ... Cairo and New York, Virginia and Israel ... The motifs of a catwalk ... too narrow and frail to maintain the walker ... and of sustaining overpass ... bind the emotion-filled collection of this moving poetry ... " Catwalks and Overpass " ... poems by Dennis Silk ... published by Viking , New York ... 1990 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. NEW/New . USD 14.95** [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1319] Book number: 49 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SPENDER, STEPHEN Still Centre , Center , the - British Poet Stephen Spender Reading a Selection of His Own Poetry , from His " Collected Poems " and " Dolphins " - Audio Book on Tape , in Stephen Spender's Own Voic London: Penguin Audio, 1997. First Thus. Audio Book (Cassette). 0140863966 Audio Book on Tape in original case ... Brand new from publisher ... Gift Giving quality ... Never opened , Never owned , Never marked ... Still Sealed in Original publisher's shrinkwrap ... sm crack in plastic case under shrinkwrap .. Complete & Unabridged .... Running time approximately 50 minutes ... B&W photograph of Stephen Spender, on the front ..... This extraordinary poetry anthology was recorded by the late Stephen Spender just before his death in 1995 .... One of the greatest modern British poets explores the political and the personal in his work.... On this powerful and moving recording, he reads a selection of his own poetry ... taken from his ' Collected Poems ' ... and ... ' Dolphins ' ... which cover a lifetime of experience ..... Some poems focus on personal memories ... others discuss the war ... and there are several portraits of friends and family to whom he pays tribute...... the distillation of Spender's lifetime body of work...... he represents an entire era in English literature ..... The London Sunday Times said of this recording ... " Genuine originality .. I doubt if any modern poet is so much himself ... or so completely uninfluenced by others " ....... To hear the words of this great poet ... in his own unique, and now-stilled voice ... is to hear new meaning in some of the poems he wrote more than half a century ago .... " The Still Centre " ... by Stephen Spender .... Audio Read by Stephen Spender himself ... imported from London ... Brand New , still sealed in original Shrinkwrap ...*. New . USD 16.95** [Appr.: EURO 11.5 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1496] Book number: 507 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SPROTT, GAVIN / ROBERT BURNS / JENNI CALDER Robert Burns - Farmer - a Celebration in Words and Pictures of the Life of the Farmer / Poet in Scotland in the Late 18th Century Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. Photos Throughout. 7-3/4 x 8-1/4 " 0948636181 1990 Glossy Softcover Booklet ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Last one ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... very faint marks to back glossy cover as is usual with this publication ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 58 pages in Glossy illustrated cover, well illustrated throughout with Color and B&W photographs, drawings, paintings, maps, a copy of some writing in Robbie Burns' own handwritiing, conemporary illustrations of rural scenes from the late 1700s, and lovely color photographs of scenes today, which were some of Burns favorite places in his time ... including his own farm, Mount Oliphant, and Galston, and the banks of the Nith, where he spent many happy hours; the site where he wrote Tam o' Shanter ... This is a well presented booklet giving an instant overview of life in the time of the great Scottish writer Robert Burns, and what it meant to live in rural areas, and to be a farmer, as he was, and as his father was before him ... interspersed with bits of his own poems, including The Holy Fair, and more ... What did it mean to live as a farmer in the late 1700s ? ... How did one work, and support oneself in the days of ' old fashioned ' farming, before the modern ' factory farming ' had ever even been dreamt of ? ... How did that tally with his aspirations as a poet ? ... He has crystal clear imagery of the life in images in many of his poems ... What did it mean to live a life as Burns did, as many did, including many of our ancestors, in pre-Victorian Scotland ? ... This is history, and poetry, and literary history, and agricultural history, as well as art history, through the beautiful and detailed paintings of the day ... but in a personal style which engages the reader and transports the reader to a time gone by ... Arran, Ayershire, Dumfries, Lochlie, Tarbolton, Falkirk, Alloway, and many more place names dear to the hearts of Scots and those of Scottish ancestry everywhere, as well as fans of the inspiring Mr. Burns himself ... as well as a painting of Johnnie Shanter, at Glenfoot, near Arochan, near Shanter, probably the inspiration for the shoemaker in Tam o' Shanter ... with interesting photographs from the Scottish Museumes of some of the farming implements , and kitchen ware, used in a time gone by ... Nearly 8" square and light in weight, this is just the booklet for for tucking into the backpack on tramps around Burns country, or sending to a friend to share Robbie Burns Days celebrations ... Written in an interesting, gentle style, this is hours of enjoyment for poets, dreamers, farmers, history buffs, travellers, and armchair travellers everywhere ... " Robert Burns - Farmer " ... by Gavin Sprott, edited by Jenni Calder, with photographs by Ian Larner , Doreen Moyes ... published by the National Museums of Scotland ... 1990 ... Glossy Softcover booklet *. New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 6440 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	SWENSEN, MARGARET R. , SIGNED / WILLIS EUGENE ROBISON As Life Passes - Willis Eugene Robison - Selected Poetry of America's West , Western Frontier in the Late 1800s . . . Signed / Autographed By Margaret R. Swensen , Granddaughter of Robinson , 19th Century Farmer, Legislator, Explorer, Missionary Arkansas: Publication Consultants, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 x 1 " 1888125217 Signed by Author 1997 Hardcover in DJ ... Signed by the Author , Margaret R. Swensen ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, clear non-stick Mylar sleeve ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked, except by author to autograph ... 256 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs throughout ... The author, who is Willis Eugene Robison 's granddaughter, signed on title page, " Warmest Wishes, Margaret R. Swensen " ... This book is a remarkable collection of poems written at the turn of the century by Willis Eugene Robison ... An assembly of his finest poems ... this book shows that the values of Willis' time in history , are the same yesterday, today, and tomor row ... Willis' wit, wisdom, and insight is as fresh as today ... yet it gives the reader a vivid picture of the American frontier in the late 1800s ... This was compiled and edited by Margaret R. Swensen , who is Willis Eugene Robison's granddaugh ter ... " As Life Passes - Selected Poetry of Amercia's Western Frontier " ... by Margaret R. Swensen ... based on poems by her grandfather , Willis Eugene Robison ... published by Publication Consultants , Arkansas ... 1997 First Edition signed ... Brand New Gift Giving condition , autographed by the author *. New/New . USD 29.95** [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4643 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	THESEN, SHARON , ED. / MICHAEL ONDAATJE / LISA ROBERTSON / ET AL New Long Poem Anthology, the . . . Updated & Revised 2nd Edition Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001. Updated & Revised 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. 6 - 1/2 x 9 - 3/4 " 0889224382 Softcover updated & revised 2nd Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 496 pages ... The New Long Poem Anthology: Second Edition is an irreplaceable roadmap of a vital and powerful poetic form, a record of the most seductive and sustained 'singing talk' in post-modern Canadian writing ... Edited by Sharon Thesen, this collection of long poems, longer works, sequential poems, extended poems, serial, lengthly or longish poems extend the geography of post-modern Canadian poetry as it was laid out in 1979 ... exemplifying Michael Ondaatje's early observation that "the most interesting work being done by poets today can be found within the structure of the long poem." ... Wi th a statement of poetics and short bibliography from each author ... this anthology includes work by: Robin Blaser ... George Bowering ... Dionne Brand ... Anne Carson ... Jeff Derksen ... Christopher Dewdney ... Louis Dudek ... Patrick Friesen ... Diana Hartog ... Roy Kiyooka ... Robert Kroetsch ... Daphne Marlatt ... Steve McCaffery ... David W. McFadden ... Don McKay ... Barry McKinnon ... Erin Moure ... bpNichol ... Michael Ondaatje ... Lisa Robertson ... George Stanley ... Lola Lemire ... Tostevin ...Yolande Villemaire ... Fred Wah and Phyllis Webb ... " The New Long Poem Anthology " updated & revised Second Edition ... edithed by Sharon Thesen ... published by Talonbooks Publishing, Vancouver ... 2001 softcover ... Brand New Gift Giving quality . New . USD 29.95 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2643] Book number: 4696 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	VOZNESENSKY , ANDREI Arrow in the Wall , an . . . Selected Poetry and Prose By the Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky , Translated Into English By W.H. Auden , Robert Bly , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Allen Ginsberg & More New York: Henry Holt pub, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 080500100X 1987 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket corner clipped , protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve.... Gift Giving quality ... 340 pages ... all in English only ... Andrei Voznesensky ... Russia's leading poet ... in his own country he achieved the popularity of a film star .... The art critic John Russell described his appearance in London in the 1960s ... " He read on the same bill as Laurence Olivier .. Paul Scofield and Nicol Williamson .... All were at their best .... but even so ... it was Andrei Voznesensky whom people talked about on the way home " ..... This book includes 2 extraordinary autobiographical essays .... one ... a moving trib ute to his mentor , Boris Pasternak .... the other .... a memoir of his youth during WWII ..... the translators who put this historical & fascinating book into the English language include such notables as W.H.Auden ... Robert Bly ... Lawrence Ferl inghetti ... Allen Ginsberg ... F.D.Reeve ... " An Arrow in the Wall " ... by Andrei Voznesensky ... editors Wm.Jay Smith and F.D.Reeve ... essays translated into English by Antonina W. Bouis ... published by Henry Holt , New York ... 1987 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. NEW/New . USD 19.95** [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 93 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.
	WALLACE, J.S. / MARGARET FAIRLEY / E.J.PRATT Night Is Ended - Thoughts in Lyric - Labour Poet J.S. Wallace - Behind Prison Bars & More - Poetry & Music with Lyrics Winnipeg: Contemporary Pub, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Harry Gutrin drawings. 5 x 8 " 1942 First Edition Hardcover in DJ ... Nice Clean Gift Giving collectible quality ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear Mylar sleeve ... very tiny shelf rubbing at corners ... wartime soft paper jacket has chips, small tear top & small discolor marks on off-white edges , not as noticeable inside New sleeve .... original printer's info. inside page , slight crease in binding .... 95 pages ... in English only ... forewords by Margaret Fairley & E.J. Pratt , illustrated with portrait of Wallace ... in jacket illustrated with sepia-toned drawing by Harry Gutrin ...This rare book is the first published volume of verse & song by a Canadian Labor Poet .... J.S. Wallace had built up a thriving advertising business before he abandoned it for a life of service to the labour movement ... writing extensively for the labour and union press .... Persecuted for his beliefs, he spent long months in jail in Petawawa, Ontario and then in Hull... in solitary confinement ... imprisoned under the Defense of Canada regulations act in 1940 ... Throughout his prison life, J.S. Wallace wrote many poems and songs .... most of which are included in this first collection of his work ... it was published only months after popular demand returned Wallace to freedom ... and to contined work in the service of the people.... At time of publication, in 1942 , Wallace, in addition to his writings, was busy at a machinist's course ... preparing for an additional contribution ... that of a war worker in one of Canada's war plants..... This book has a foreward by Margaret Fairley in which she introduces him to '... those readers who are, in these pages, meeting a Left - Wing poet for the first time .... readers will be driven by the open sincerity and the deep emotion of these poems....' E.J.Pratt says " These poems are genuine lyrics ... I like the impact ...." Includes 6 Chapters of poetry & music with lyrics ... Behind Prison Bars, Dreams and Fancies, Lov e and Friendship, Experience, The Old Order, The New Hope, and Spain .... important history of the early Labor dissent movement ... " Night is Ended - Thoughts in Lyric " ... by J.S. Wallace ... forewords by Margaret Fairley & E.J. Pratt ... illustrated ... published by Contemporary Publishers , Winnipeg ... in English only ... 1942 First Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket *. Very Good/Good + . USD 60.00** [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 400 Click here to order or inquire at Cavendish International Books & Music.