Five Poems by Simic Charles (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Cover edges are worn, and there is a crease on cover. Previous owner's gift note on half-title pg. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Inscribed by George Quasha on half title page. Shelf wear to binding with scuffs, creases, toning & light soiling. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. Signed by Author.

No Binding. Condition: New. Contained in the Winter 2024 issue of The Threepenny Review. This issue of the well-regarded literary and arts quarterly contains writing by, among others, Andrea Canobbio, Sarah Deming, Louis B. Jones, Arthur Lubow, Toni Martin, Jill McDonough, Campbell McGrath, D. Nurkse, Will Richter, Charles Simic, Janna Malamud Smith, and Enrique Vila-Matas, plus 16 black-and-white photos by Josh Smith and Vanessa Woods.

Paperback. 61p., lightly-worn with heavily-foxed top edge, first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Fairly early Harrison piece from his fortchoming "Outlyer" Also very early Simic.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Paperback Fine Sumac 1969 softcover Cover, contents, binding look almost brand new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Fine in gray cloth. Number 1 of 100 copies "Contraband Issue" written in ink under the limitation notice . Inscribed by Gerber. Inscribed by Author(s).

Kat Ran Press (illustrator). small folio. unbound folded folio sheets loosely inserted into a hand-made paper jacket, loosely inserted into a slik-covered boards clamshell box with paper spine label. (5) pages of text with 5 hand-colored engravings. Etchings by Brooke Schnabel. Private printed in an edition of only 30 numbered copies signed by Charles Simic and Brooke Schnabel. Fine in fine clamshell box. With a print-out email from Brooke Schnabel to Michael Broomfield stating that even though her website stated 35 copies, the correct number is 30 copies. Composed in Monotype Dante by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, New York. The five etchings to accompany each poem were printed on Arches papers and hand-colored by the artist in Florence, MA. The typography and letterpress printing were executed at Kat Ran Press by Michael Russem in Florence, MA. The boxes were made by Sarah Creighton in Eashapton, MA. The five poems are: October Light, Club Midnight, Pastoral Harpsichord, The Road in the Clouds, and finally Entertaining the Canary. unbound folded folio sheets loosely inserted into a hand-made paper jacket, loosely inserted into a slik-covered boards clamshell box with paper spine label.

No. 2 OF 30 COPIES. 383 x 282 mm. (15 x 11"). [8] leaves of text. Unbound in green paper wrapper. In original (slightly sunned) deep green buckram clamshell box. WITH FIVE HAND-COLORED ETCHINGS by Brooke Schnabel, each plate in bifolium facing text. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the limitation page; further SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page: "For Kurt and Laure-Anne, / Love Charlie/ August 10, 2007, / Stratford, NH." As new; the box with fading to the spine and along two edges of the front cover. This is an extremely rare copy of a large and attractive production combining poetry, art, and fine printing, as well as an inscription by the author to a pair of dear poetic friends. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and U.S. Poet Laureate for 2007-08, Charles Simic (1938-2023) wrote moving, surrealistic poetry often based on his own experiences, particularly his traumatic childhood in what was then Yugoslavia. Here, his talent for imbuing the mundane with a sense of magic is evident in these verses about topics including the day-to-day aspects of romantic relationships, sleeping with the window open, and seedy nightclubs. The effervescent etchings of Brooke Schnabel perfectly complement the text, with their bright, fresh colors and graceful, soaring linework. The present Goshen Editions production is of a very high quality, with the text printed in Monotype Dante by Michael Russem of the Kat Ran Press. As the friendly inscription indicates, this copy is from the collection of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center. It was through the Aspen Writer's Conference that Bosselaar and Brown became friends with Simic, when Brown invited Simic to speak at the conference in the early 1990s. Bosselaar, reminiscing on a friendship of over two decades, wrote that "Charlie (as he was known by his friends) and Kurt had a great friendship, and shared a common love for wine & poetry--so, often, the Simics would come to our house, and we'd have a 'good bottle' or two around a dinner I'd cook for them." The rarity of "Five Poems" seems to be even greater than its very limited press run of 30 might suggest: we find no other copy on the market at present, and we could trace no copies at auction.