Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals
by Mitchell, Stephen, ed
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 188331948X
- ISBN 13
- 9781883319489
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About This Item
Berkeley Calif.: Frog, Ltd., 1996. xvi, 230 pp. Fine in a very good dj, a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. Contents: Forward; Akhenaton; The Book of Job; Psalm 104; Chu Chen-Po; Milton; Basho; Buson; Christopher Smart; William Cowper; Goethe; Blake; Robert Burns; Issa; John Clare; William Cullen Bryant; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Thomas Hardy; Gerard Manley Hopkins; W. B. Yeats; Francis Jammes; Robert Frost; Rainer Maria Rilke; William Carlos Williams; D. H. Lawrence; Robinson Jeffers; Marianne Moore; Eugenio Montale; Francis Ponge; Nicolai Zabolotsky; Pablo Neruda; Theodore Roethke; Elizabeth Bishop; Randall Jarrell; Philip Larkin; James Wright; A Note on the Translations; Acknowledgements. "to see you: tensed, as if each leg were a gun / loaded with leaps, but not fired while your neck / holds your head still, listening: as when, / / while swimming in some isolated place, / a girl hears leaves rustle, and turns to look: / the forest pool reflected in her face."--from Rilke, The Gazelle.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000968
- Title
- Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals
- Author
- Mitchell, Stephen, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 188331948X
- ISBN 13
- 9781883319489
- Publisher
- Frog, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley Calif.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Poetry, Animals, Bestiary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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