Isbn: 9780140586190 - Nurture (penguin Poets) (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Very good condition. Minimal wear. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 63 pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From the library of William H. Matchett, with his name and the date on the ffep. The poem 'Chores' by Kumin is laid in loose, with a notation presumably made by Matchett. 63 pp., a nice copy with light foxing on the top and fore-edge of the pages, else Very Good with a tight spine.…

paperback. Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Stiff unmarked book in crisp covers.; 8.0 X 5.5 X 0.2 inches; 1 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Not price-clipped ($10.00 price intact). Published by Viking Penguin, 1989. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. dj: none. book: as new trade pbak. signed by author. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. Signed, inscribed, and dated (Oct 1992) by author. Book as new except slight foxing on upper page edges. NEAR FINE. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Trade paperback, 63 pages, at top of first front end paper is a large stamped "USED BOOK." Fine otherwise.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 63 pages ; 21 cm. ; ISBN 9780140586190, 0140586199 ; OCLC 19352352 ; LCCn 89031129 ; LOC No PS3521.U638 N87 1989b ; "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin . 1989"--T.p. verso. ; Stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Halfway -- Fra?ulein reads instructive rhymes -- 400 meter freestyle -- Casablanca -- A hundred nights -- On being asked to write a poem for the centenary of the Civil War -- The first rain of Spring -- Privilege -- Morning swim -- Sisyphus -- The pawnbroker -- The appointment -- Quarry pigeon cove -- Prothalamion -- Purgatory -- Joppa diary : January 25th, May 10th, June 15th, September 22nd -- The Nightmare Factory -- The presence -- The vealers -- Watering trough -- Hello hello Henry -- Making the Jam without you -- For my great grandfather : message long overdue -- We are -- After love -- The nightmare factory -- Up country -- The hermit wakes to bird sounds -- The hermit meets the skunk -- the hermit picks berries -- Creatures -- Stones -- The dreamer the dream -- Beans -- Mud -- Woodchucks -- House bridge fountain gate -- History lesson -- the thirties revisited -- Sperm -- The deaths of the uncles -- Life's work -- The Jesus infection -- Living alone with Jesus -- To swim to believe -- The selling of the slaves -- In the root cellar -- The mummies -- Song for seven parts of the body -- Heaven as anus -- Young nun at bread loaf -- Amanda is shod -- Amanda dreams she has died and gone to the Elysian Fields -- The agnostic speaks to her horse's hoof eyes -- Thinking of death and dogfood -- The retrieval system -- The longing to be saved -- Address to the angels -- My father's neckties -- Progress report -- The food chain -- The Henry Manley blues -- Birthday poem -- Changing the children -- Seeing the bones -- Sunbathing on a rooftop in Berkeley -- The envelope -- Body and soul a meditation -- How it is -- Splitting wood at six above -- Late snow -- The excrememnt poem -- In April in Princeton -- July against hunger -- The survival poem -- Territory -- How it goes on -- Our ground time here will be brief -- Rejoicing with Henry -- Henry Manley looks back -- Feeding time -- In the pea patch -- Relearning the language of April -- Continuum a love poem -- Family reunion -- Leaving my daughter's house -- February -- Itinerary of an obsession -- Apostrophe to a dead friend -- In memoriam of P.W. Jr. 1921 -- 1980 : the unfinished storey, the incest dream, Out of the body travel, retrospect in the kitchen, the man of many L's -- You are in bear country -- Atlantic City -- The chain -- Introducing the fathers -- Appetite -- Grandchild -- Caring : a dream -- Shopping in Ferney with Voltaire -- At a private showing in 1982 -- In the absence of bliss -- Video cuisine -- How to survive nuclear war -- Getting through -- Out in it -- My elusive guest -- Shelling Jacobs cattle beans -- After the harvest -- The long approach -- Nurture -- With the caribou -- In warm rooms before blue light -- Thoughts of saiving the manatee -- Repent -- Homage to binsey poplars -- Custodian -- Bringing back the trumpeter swan -- The accolade of animals -- Sleeping with animals -- Encounter in August -- Catchment -- On reading an old baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron -- The festung Salzburg -- Night launch -- Photograph Maryland Agricultural College livestock show -- Photograph U.S. Army Flying School College Park Maryland -- On being asked to write a poem in memory of Anne Sexton -- In the park -- Marianne my mother and me -- A calling -- Turning the garden in middle age -- Reviewing the summer and winter calendar of the next life -- Grappling in the central blue -- The Bangkok gong -- We stood there singing -- Distance -- A game of monopoly in Chavannes ; In these rich, lyrical poems Maxine Kumin brings her perceptive eye and imagination to the contemplation of the natural world. ; FINE. Book. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, may be reissue. 63pp. Trade paperback. Edges lightly foxed, very good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, may be reissue. 63pp. Trade paperback. Edges lightly foxed, very good.

Softcover. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Very Good in wrappers.; Poets, Penguin; 8.03 X 5.51 X 0.24 inches; 80 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second printing of the paperback edition. Near fine. Nicely Inscribed to the editors of *Quarterly Review of Literature*, Theodore and Ren?e Karol Weiss on the title page: "for Renee + Ted, in warm and lasting friendship (signed on 86th St May 16 / 91) love - Maxine." Kumin has also signed her full name. …