Hayden Carruth 1921 (18 results)

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PAPERBACK, attractive copy, appears unused, very good. CARRUTH, HAYDEN. Sitting in: selected writings on jazz, blues, and related topics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993, Expanded edition, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiii, 223pp., . This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz on writing and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986 publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz. The author brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities to bear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarily to jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute more intelligently than others to our practical and moral, political and social, advancement." - CONTENTS: The Guy Downstairs -- A Chaconnade for Everyone Named Rebecca -- Freedom and Discipline -- Academicism -- Who Cares, Long as It's B-Flat -- Influences: The Formal Idea of Jazz -- Joe Turner -- Song about Earl Hines -- With Respect to the Infuriating Pervasiveness of Optimism -- A Possibly Momentary Declaration In Favor of William Butler Yeats and Charles Ellsworth Russell -- Paragraph -- Got Those Forever Inadequate Blues -- The Intentional Alligator -- Personality of Genius -- Tom McGrath Is Harvesting the Snow -- Authenticity in the Age of Massive, Multiplying Error -- Michigan Water: A Few Riffs before Dawn -- Three Paragraphs -- The Defeated Generation -- The Cowshed Blues -- The Main Thing about Improvisation -- The Blues Scale -- Ben Webster -- The Time of Falling Apart -- The Blues as Poetry -- In That Session -- James Wright's Collected Prose -- Mystery and Expressiveness. - AND MORE. 9780877454236 ISBN 087745423X.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The is the First Edition in paperback format of "Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth", published by Collier - Macmillan Books in 1985. The book has an illuminating Foreword by poet Galway Kinnell, who also edited the collection. The paperback format was issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Said Kinnell of Carruth's poems : "His work teems with the struggle to live and to make sense, and his poems carve out a kind of grace for us." TITLE : The Selected Poems of Hayden Carruth AUTHOR : Hayden Carruth (1921 - 2008) EDITOR / FOREWORD : Galway Kinnell IMPRINT : Colllier - Macmillan PLACE : New York DATE : (1985) EDITION : First Paperback Edition (The paperback format was issued simultaneously with the hardcover) PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback; Contains a Foreword; x + 165 pages; approximately 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", printed wraps, glued. Printed in green, gray and dark blue against buff. Rear over has a small photograph of Carruth. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of handling; soft bumps to corner tips, mild surface rub (near-negligible) - Binding solid and tight with just a suggestion of a yawn to the front cover. Interior clean and unmarked.…

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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Norfolk Poems of Hayden Carruth (1 June to 1 September 1961). Book.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST Edition. ".A long poetic sequence which chronicled his days in the asylum" Author was an award winning poet. He was an inmate at the Bloomingdale Asylum in New York City for a short time. Grey cloth is clean and tight with still bright blue titles. A Fine or Better volume, being clean and tight, No markings. (LAID-IN is a NY Times Obituary for author, dated 10/01/08, in its own mylar slip.) A Very Good Or Better dust jacket which has original price intact on front flap ($7.50). White jacket flaps show very light/mild foxing. Rear flap has one very short closed tear to top edge. A Fabulous copy. 77 pages. Mylar protected jacket.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the First Edition of "For You - Poems" by Hayden Carruth. Published in 1970 by New Directions, the book serves as an important touchstone in the poetry of Carruth. Here is an excerpt from the jacket blurb: "This collection includes five long poems that have previously appeared, with one exception, only in magazines and limited editions. One critic has called them 'virtually secret'. Yet they are probably the heart of Carruth's poetic achievement, both technically and thematically. Rising from the experience of emotional illness and the asylum, the poems move at intervals and over a period of nearly fifteen years toward a sustained, workable view of humanity in crisis." TITLE : For You - Poems AUTHOR : Hayden Carruth (1921 - 2008) IMPRINT : New Directions PLACE : New York DATE : (1970) EDITION : First Edition Jacket photography by Suki Gallagher; Photograph of Carruth by Jane Singer. Trade hardcover; 117 pages; approximately 5 1/4" x 7 7/8"; quarter bound blue cloth spine and paper-covered boards (light paper over the boards given a marbleized effect); photo-pictorial dust-jacket. Photo-portait of Carruth on rear panel of jacket. CONDITION : This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable with the following noted: BOOK : VERY GOOD -- JACKET : VERY GOOD EXTERIOR - A bit of compression and a slight touch of abrasion to spine extremities, else bright and crisp with negligible signs of handling. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - Clean and presentable with no signatures or marginalia. No underlining. DUST-JACKET - Head of spine panel is a bit ragged, with nicking and tears; shallow creasing to front flap. Mild surface rub - slightly more apparent on spine panel. Original publisher's price still on flap. All in all clean and presentable. Looks nice under archival mylar cover. Front Jacket Photograph : Suki Gallagher / Photo Portrait of Carruth : Jane Singer (illustrator).…

Condition: FINE. First printing. An uncommon early collection of poems by this award winning writer (his list of honors includes the National Book Award, the National National Book Critics Circle Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the 1990 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and more.) This collection includes five long and very personal poems written over more than a decade from 'The Asylum' in 1957 (which recounts his institutionalization in 1953-54) through 'My Father's Fac'e in 1968. A presentation copy, INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half title page. 117 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on front flap of dj, light crease on table of contents).…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.