Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First edition of this collection of previously published work and new material, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue boards in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly worn at edges. Boards bright. Interior clean and fresh. Tight. Near fine.

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Michael Ryan’s New and Selected Poems is the first collection to appear in fifteen years from this acclaimed and masterly poet. Comprising fifty-seven poems from three award-winning volumes and thirty-one brilliant new poems, it displays the wit and passion he has brought to universal themes throughout his career. In both dramatic lyrics and complex narratives, Ryan renders the world with startling clarity, freshness, and intimacy. Ryan’s poems are filled with the stuff of everyday life: What-a-Burger, Space Invaders, “the hood ornament / on some chopped down hot rod of the apocalypse.” He observes his subjects in carefully wrought detail and with a fierce compassion, describing “stupid posters of rock stars” in the bedroom of a murdered teenager, or a homeless boy “straggle-haired, bloated, / eyes shining like ice.” As Ryan writes of others, in a final “Reminder” to himself: “their light —their light — / pulls so surely. Let it.” This long-awaited collection shows Ryan at the height of his powers. As William H. Pritchard said in The Nation, “Unlike too many poets who tumble into print at the first twitch of feeling, Ryan takes time to listen to himself, and such listening contributes immeasurably to the subtlety of his address to the reader . . . [He] reminds us on every page that poems can be about lives, and about them in ways most urgent and delicate.”

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Bookseller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 42129
Title: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Author: RYAN, Michael
Book Condition: Used - Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0618408541
ISBN 13: 9780618408542
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston and New York
Date Published: 2004

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Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.

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