The Sex of Art

Frances Presley

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 7
• The Sex of Art was Frances Presley's first full collection, published by North and South in 1987. Perhaps a little overdue by that time, the book neve... Lees meer

Maldon

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 13
• Maldon is a version of the Anglo-Saxon epic fragment, The Battle of Maldon, which tells the tale of a battle between the Anglo-Saxons and the invading... Lees meer

The House of Leaves

Nathaniel Tarn

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 8
• The House of Leaves was first published by Black Sparrow Press in Santa Barbara in 1976, and was a significant statement of intent by Nathaniel Tarn -... Lees meer

Alashka

Nathaniel Tarn, Janet Rodney

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 1
• Alashka is a lost book. It was first published as half of a very large, well-printed volume in 1979, spliced together with Tarn's Selected Poems up un... Lees meer

Avebury

Richard Berengarten

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 5
• "I'm not a prophet, but I believe you have written a great poem..." --Octavio Paz (from a personal letter) "The note on the back cover of the first ed... Lees meer

A Nowhere for Vallejo

Nathaniel Tarn

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 18
• A Nowhere for Vallejo was first published in the UK 1972, and was a major staging post in the author's career, the penultimate volume to appear from a... Lees meer

At the Western Gates

Nathaniel Tarn

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 3
• At the Western Gates was first published by a small press in New Mexico in 1985, and consisted of five powerful long poems that exemplify the best of ... Lees meer

The Isthmus of Samuel Greenberg

Jeremy Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 6
• Isthmus was Jeremy Reed's first collection, produced in a finely-printed edition by Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press in 1980. Overwrought, perhaps even ... Lees meer

Manners of an Astronaut

Gig Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 4
• Manners of an Astronaut was Gig Ryan's second collection, in 1984, and confirmed the impression she had made with her first book. It has been unavaila... Lees meer

The Desert Mothers

Nathaniel Tarn

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library
• The core of this volume was originally a chapbook of the same title, first published in Mississippi in 1985, and demonstrates in shorter poems how Tar... Lees meer

Tell me no more and tell me

Ralph Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library
• Tell Me No More and Tell Me , first published in 1981 focuses upon the poet's immediate surroundings, the Essex marshes and the small black timber fra... Lees meer

Serpentine

Christopher Middleton

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 2
• Serpentine : A mineral or rock consisting of a hydrous magnesium silicate, H 4 M 3 Si 2 O 9 , and having usually a dull green color, often with a spot... Lees meer

The Red and Yellow Book

Kelvin Corcoran

• Paperback | Engels | Shearsman Library | nr. 14
• The Red and Yellow Book was published by Textures in 1986, the imprint of Penny Bailey. My recollection is that little from the book had been publishe... Lees meer