Tarkos, Christophe

Ma langue est poetique - Selected Poems

New York, Roof Books, 2000. Perfectbound, 90 pp. 6"-9". fIine. French performance artiste-poete attractively published with various translators rendering his poems into English. Plush-matte covers are lifty but stainless.

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Book number: 1315

Catalogue: Poetry

Thinh, Hu'u, George Evans and Nguyen Qui Duc, translators

The Time Tree

Willimantic CT, Curbstone Press, 2003. Perfectbound, 171 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Bilingual Vietnamese/ English. Poet served in the Vietnamese/ American War as a tank driver and journalist. This is a selection from 5 volumes of his poems.

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Book number: 613

Catalogue: Poetry

Tolson, Melvin B.

Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems

Charlotteville , University Press of Virginia, 1999. Sewn cloth, 473 pp. 5.75"-8.75". Fine. My roots are in Africa, Europe and America" Rita Dove in her introductory essay quoting this black poet of strong cadence and unerring aim. Edited by Raymond Nelson. No dustjacket.

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Book number: 1679

Catalogue: Poetry

Troendlé, Yves

The Blue Marble Certainty

Toronto, Gesture Press, 1988. Plastic clamp, 62 pp. 8.5"-8.5". fine. Language poetry with Dada intent, e.g. "Struck by lightning, saved by shoes, appalled". Patch of marble-paper pasted on cover.

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Book number: 612

Catalogue: Concrete/VZWL Poetry

Truhlar, Richard

Moon Dice

Toronto, Underwhich Editions, 1982. Staplebound, 24 pp. 5.25"-5.5". As New. Taut, titled poems are homolinguistic translations of Giraud's Pierrot Lumaire that was set to music by Arthur Schoenberg.

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Book number: 1113

Catalogue: Poetry

Vangelisti, Paul

Villa

Los Angeles, Littoral Books, 1991. Perfectbound, 86 pp. 5"-8". Good. Historical epistolary fiction; letters written during Hadrian's tour as the Emperor of Rome. Photos of columns, inside and out. Darkly funny. Stains and foxing to shite covers and faces.

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Book number: 180

Catalogue: Poetry

Vesaas, Tarjei; Roger Greenwald, translator

Through Naked Branches

Boston, Black Widow Press, 2018. Perfectbound, 147 pp. 6"-9". As New. Better known as a major Norwegian novelist, this is a new bilingual selection from an accomplished writer who lives and writes on a large scale inclusive of nature. Matte cover in burnt orange.

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Book number: 1677

Catalogue: Poetry

Volgelweide, Walther von Der

Gedichte

Bern, A. Franke Ag. 1946. Perfect binding, 88 pp. 5"-7.5". Fair. An "altdeutsche Ubungstexte" edited with intro by Max Wehrli. Much pen and pencil marking and waterstains to pages.

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Book number: 183

Catalogue: Poetry

Voznesensky, Andrei -various translators

An Arrow in the Wall

New York, Henry Holt & Co. 1987. Cloth, 344 pp. 6.25"-9.25". Fine. The major poems and two autobiographical prose pieces. Russia poems and English translations printed en face. Edited by William Jay Smith & F.D. Reeve. Some paling to the top face only.

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Book number: 1638

Catalogue: Poetry

Wah, Fred

Music at the Heart of Thinking

Red Deer AB, Red Deer College Press, 1987. Perfect binding, 74 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Jazz riffs on thoughts. Play it fast and to a loud drummer. Green, aqua and sand wraparound sleeves a fit. Topface stain only.

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Book number: 928

Catalogue: Poetry

Waldren, R. A., editor

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

London, Edwin Arnold, 1971. Sewn paper, 171 pp. 5"-7.75". Good. Complete Mediaeval English text of this weird and wonderful tale with notes at the foot of each page and a full glossary at its back. Stretched binding, stained covers.

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Book number: 184

Catalogue: Poetry

Waldrop, Keith

Water Marks

Toronto, Underwhich Editions, 10/1/1987. Perfect binding, 32 pp. 5.5"-5.5". Fine. Silkscreen-manque cover to these lucid poems by a partner to Burning Deck publications. Like Orpheus, trace and go.

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Book number: 185

Catalogue: Poetry

Wallace, Bronwen

Common Magic

Ottawa, Oberon, 1985. Perfect binding, 87 pp. 5.25"-8.5". fine. Deep cinnibar green cover to poems concerned with memory and the politics of recovery. A few chips to the pigment.

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Book number: 187

Catalogue: Poetry

Whiteman, Bruce

Polyphonic Windows

Montreal, Poets & Painters Press, 2003. Staplebound, 20 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Chapbook of the poet's progressively internal autographiobiography. Prosepoetry, #75 of 100 privately printed.

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Book number: 14

Catalogue: Poetry

Whiteman, Bruce

Recesses of the Heart - The Thera Poems

Toronto, blewointment press, 1984. Perfect binding, 48 pp. 5.25"-8.5". Good. Sensuality in the now of an island, newly in love. Though stained and bent, red on crème cover still charms.

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Book number: 186

Catalogue: Poetry