Trace Elements by Jordan Barbara (13 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. BH2 - A trade paperback book in veyr good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated cream colored wraps with veyr minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light creasing on the front cover along the top edge. This is a title in the publisher's Penguin Poets series. A collection of poetry by a noted American poet. The author is a winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. By the author of "Channel." 64p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 64 pp., Gift inscription on the title page.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 64 pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 64 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine.

Softcover. Penguin, 1998, blue wraps UNREVISED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS, Fine, 64 pages, publisher's promotional material laid in, POETRY SECOND BOOK " ARC; A4123.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDPoetry. First edition. Very good.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 64pp.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New Review Copy of this paperback original with slip and two publisher's letters laid in. This copy inscribed on the dedication page to poet William Heyen, whose ownership signature & date appears in the top right corner of the half-title page. Wonderful association copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. As New Review Copy of this paperback original with slip and two publisher's letters laid in. This copy inscribed on the dedication page to poet William Heyen, whose ownership signature & date appears in the top right corner of the half-title page. Wonderful association copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: New. The poet Barbara Jordan, whose first book, Channel, was the winner of the 1989 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, has won acclaim for her ability to interweave the strands of religion, nature, language, and art in work which shimmers with stylistic elegance. Her second book, Trace Elements, explores residues of meaning and mystery -- of history, belief systems, old categories of classification -- from a place of abandonment or skepticism. What can we know? How do we order knowledge? What are twentieth-century versions of the Fall? These are some of the questions this new collection addresses, in richly textured poems whose form blend freedom and restraint, and whose language has, in the words of Robert Pinsky, 'the impact of saturated colors: consonants and vowels in lush cadences, luxuriance of image and phrase'. …