A Bibliography Of The Published Works Of J V Cunningham

An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries-about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).

Often identified with the epigram - a genre in which he excelled as distinctively as Johnson, Herrick, and LandorCunningham also wrote in a wide range of other poetic forms and was as well a remarkable translator. This volume incorporates the materials of his 1971 Collected Poems and Epigrams and adds many of his later poems and translations. Included, too, are some interesting early pieces that appeared in periodicals but have never before been collected in a book.

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This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.