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Published by Ecco, 1987
ISBN 10: 0880011025ISBN 13: 9780880011020
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 141 pages, clean text, minor wear.
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Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1986. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0880010983. Translated from the Polish by The Author & Robert Hass. 141 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Poland Poetry Eastern Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be. In Unattainable Earth, verse, prose poems, prose jottings, pensees, quotations, translations and even fragments from personal letters have been gathered into the shape of a writer's notebook, where they form a sustained meditation on sexuality, language, the problems of belief, the life of the streets of cities and the mysterious annihilating power of time. And beneath all these motifs there is, finally, a single subject - the powerful desire to confront the ecstatic experience of life on earth. This is evident not only in Mr. Milosz's own poems, but in the companion poems of Walt Whitman and D. H. Lawrence he was translating into Polish, which appear here returned to their original English renewed by their rather surprising interplay with a contemporary text. The structure of UNATTAINABLE EARTH makes it possible for us to experience, with unusual intimacy, the play of this central obsession as the poet's spirit and intellect move among and strain against his themes. In this movement, the book perhaps resembles the poetic diaries of the Japanese, with their free sense of border crossings between poetry and prose - although Mr. Milosz's sense of historical irony and passion to understand are entirely European. 'The core of the major themes of Milosz's poetry,' Joseph Brodsky has said, 'is the unbearable realization that a human being is unable to grasp his experience.' In Unattainable Earth, there is a deepening of this theme, and as it is pursued the poet comes to certain understandings: if human experience is ungraspable, then the moments of tenderness between people, disappearing as they occur, are all the more precious and mysterious. This book, for all its range and sobriety and formal inventiveness and lyricism, seems, finally, to be a book of love poems, an elegy for and meditation on the earthly paradise. inventory #98.
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Published by The Ecco Press (1986), New York, 1986
Seller: Brick Walk Books, Orleans, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. "In his first collection of new poems since receiving the Nobel prize for Literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz, with a playfulness and passionate restlessness of mind that are entirely characteristic, has changed the very idea of what a book of poetry can be.".
Published by NY: Ecco Press (1986)., 1986
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 141 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Poems translated from the original Polish by Milosz and Robert Hass. Promotional flyer laid-in.
Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1986
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 9in. xiii. 141pp. Publisher's quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. A one-fold pamphlet for a speaking engagement of the poet's with a biographical sketch, published by The Polish American Cultural Society of Saint Louise, tipped-in. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows the bottom corners shelf rubbed, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the extremities marginally shelf rubbed, else Fine/As New. As pictured.
Published by Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 141 pages. A collection of poems from the 1980 Nobel Laureate translated by Milosz and Robert Hass. A tight close to near fine copy with some slight foxing to the top of the page edges in a near fine dust jacket.
Published by Ecco Press, 1986
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo, quarter black cloth over light blue papered boards, gilt titles, 141pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (17.95) showing faint edge wear to flaps and a few small chips and tears to top edge. Price stamp to ffep, else unmarked, firmly bound. A six part volume of poems translated by Milosz himself and Robert Hass. A handsome copy.
Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Book First Edition
Condition: Fine in a near fine jacket. First printing. First edition of Milosz's first new book of poetry following his 1980 Nobel Prize. Collection of Milosz's poems, translated into English by the "robust and sensitive" (Phillips) Robert Hass and by Milosz himself. The poet includes several poems by D.H. Lawrence and Walt Whitman alongside his own work, returned to English from his previous translations into Polish. As he explains in the preface: "Robert Hass was of the opinion that those poems should not be eliminated, as they make an integral part of my mosaic, so we have left them, an homage to tutelary spirits." 9'' x 6''. Original half black cloth with pale green boards. Gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($17.95) dust jacket. 141, [1] pages. Faint toning to jacket flaps. Else clean and sound.
Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Fine. First American edition, wrappered issue. Translated by the Author and Robert Hass. Fine in glossy wrappers. Signed by the author.
Published by Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, papered boards, gilt letterinf, dust jacket unclipped, 141 pp signed by the author on the front endpaper first US edition small tear on the front of the dj Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Translated by the author and Robert Hass. Printed green wrappers. Fine. Signed by translator and poet Robert Hass.
Published by Ecco Press, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 141 pages. A collection of poems from the 1980 Nobel Laureate translated by Milosz and Robert Hass. A clean very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Milosz on the front free endpaper and additionally signed and inscribed by Hass on the title page. Uncommon thus.
Published by Ecco Press,, NY:, 1986
ISBN 10: 0880010983ISBN 13: 9780880010986
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A collection of poems. Translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass. First edition thus. SIGNED by the author. About fine in like dust jacket.; 141 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Ecco Press, 1986
Seller: The Threepenny Review, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).