Home Remedies: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1981

By: Axelrod, David B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Merrick, New York, USA, Cross-Cultural Communications: 1982

Edition: First

Inscription: For my grandmother, Esther Kransberg (1882-1862)

Seller ID: CCC145.1

"If any poet working in America at present has the power to smash complacency, it is [Axelrod].... If his work is news to you, you're lucky to hold this book in your hand. Here, from several collections now hard to obtain, are some of the most lovely, harrowing, and outrageously funny poems from his first twenty publishing years. For good measure, there is a trove of new work besides." --X. J. Kennedy "David B. Axelrod's New and Selected Poems is a striking and extre... View more info

Home Remedies: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1981

By: Axelrod, David B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Merrick, New York, USA, Cross-Cultural Communications: 1982

Edition: First

Inscription: For my grandmother, Esther Kransberg (1882-1962)

Seller ID: CCC145.2

"If any poet working in America at present has the power to smash complacency, it is [Axelrod].... If his work is news to you, you're lucky to hold this book in your hand. Here, from several collections now hard to obtain, are some of the most lovely, harrowing, and outrageously funny poems from his first twenty publishing years. For good measure, there is a trove of new work besides." --X. J. Kennedy "David B. Axelrod's New and Selected Poems is a striking and extremely... View more info

A Dream of Feet

By: Axelrod, David B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Merrick, New York, USA, Cross-Cultural Communications: 1976

Edition: First

Inscription: For Joan, Writing

Seller ID: CCC105.2

"I enjoy David B. Axelrod's work. In many ways, he stands at the center of contemprory traditions; in other ways, his virtues are rare. As readily readable as excellent prose, Axelrod's poems (for they ARE poems) offer further pleasures: Axelrod is a master of the serious pun, of the metaphor nobody else would have imagined, of the kind of rime you don't notice unless you're looking for it Many of the poems in A Dream of Feet, such as the title poem, are outrageously fu... View more info

Mishpocheh

By: Barkan, Stanley H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Krakow & New York, Inter Esse & Cross-Cultural Communications: 2003

Edition: First

Seller ID: CCCP02.2

“The profound way Barkan articulates constant desire to return home and to bring his readers home by merging them into his own extended and extensive family makes Mishpocheh surely one of the most remarkable poetry collections to be released in the early twenty-first century. The volume’s uniqueness is also emphasized by Bebe Barkan´s colorful paintings–mostly of her family members and her husband’s (including Grandma Celia). Like much of the artwork included in... View more info

Raisins with Almonds / Pàssuli cu mènnuli

By: Barkan, Stanley H. Marco Scalabrino, Sicilian Translator

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Mineola, New York, USA & Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Legas: 2013

Edition: First

Inscription: For Nat & Nina Scammacca

Seller ID: LEGAS1

“Barkan’s Jewish soul has found in Sicily a receptive and maternal ambience. Perhaps his ancestors were among those who were forced to leave in 1493 when Spain chased them out of the island which had been their homeland for more than a millennium. So these poems are a coming home, not to Jerusalem, but to Sicily.” —From the Foreword by Gaetano Cipolla President, Arba Sicula View more info