Robert Mezey Editors (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. general handling wear and creases.

g+ soft cover, spine creases/light soil, clean inside. anthology includes Rexroth, Roethke, Patchen, Stafford, Kees, Berryman, Lowell, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Wright, Plath, etc. 10th prt, '82 edition. Binding is paper covers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Highlighting to 16 pages, notes written inside back cover, else text clean & bright; binding tight; very minor wear to covers. 185 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in white wraps with moderate handling wear including some rubbing & light toning. Interior bright, snug & unmarked. First printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stiff white illus. wraps. Covers show typical surface rubbing/soiling, with one crease along firm, square binding. Front cover neatly reattached with clear tape. Former owner's signature inked on half-title, otherwise unmarked. 2nd ptg. xxiv,387 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows shelfwear, with creasing and very faint staining to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xxiv/387 pages. Contributors: Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, Kenneth Patchen, William Stafford, Weldon Kees, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, Philip Levine, Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, Stephen Berg, Robert Mezey.…

5th Printing. Poets include Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth, Sylvia Plath, Robert Bly, Gary Snyder & Philip Levine. SIGNED BY PHILIP LEVINE on title page. Poetry, Anthology, Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in pale lavender cloth, in a Fine white dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 387pp. An anthology of 19 poets (including the two editors) documenting the development and progress of American poetry in non-traditional "open" formal composition. Includes Rexroth, Roethke, Patchen, Stafford, Kees, Berryman, Lowell, Levertov, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Kinnell, Merwin Wright, Levine, Plath and Snyder. Each selection is accompanied by a brief biographical note and a black and white photo of the poet. This was a controversial book in its time, being notable (or notorious) for a certain sense of permissiveness. Q21630.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. 387pp. Purple cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine. Photos throughout. Light edgewear to the spine tips, foxing spots on the top edge, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped white jacket with black and purple lettering has mottling along the extremities of the jacket, and one tiny chip on one corner. "Here are the poetic explorations-the craft-the theories of such iinfluential men as Robert Creeley, W.S. Merwin, Gary Snyder. Here too are quiet, personal poems: Kenneth Rexroth's snesuous translations from the Chinese Masters, Sylvia Plath's disturming solioloquies, Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence," Denise Levertov's terse, haunting lyrics. The new men abandoned strict rhyme, meter and stanza from to experiment with images, rhythms, and syntax." Size: Octavo. Book.…