Search Results: Poetry from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[JEREMY INGALLS, AMERICAN WOMAN POET, 5-PAGE HANDWRITEN LETTER/ALS 1945] JEREMY INGALLS, WOMAN POET, 5-page handwritten letter, 8-1/2" x 11"/about 950 words, dated Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1945, to "Dear Jimmy" (author James R. Mellow, see below), Mellow wrote to Ingalls after gaining confidence in receiving a high-school award for something he wrote asking her to comment on and critique a group of sonnets he had written, Ingalls replies generously that they are "part of the record of your adolescence" having more personal than lasting or literary value, but which evidence good writing skills and talent, her lengthy letter involves literary critique, psychological observation, perspective, and encouragement, reading in part, "Your manuscript and letter arrive this morning…this particular group of sonnets should not be revised…You yourself recognize the Millay lines…and you probably recognize also the Wordsworth, Byron and Keats and other echoes…you probably recognize also the sequence… Read More

[LEONIE ADAMS LETTER AND BOOK INSCRIBED TO SIGRID DE LIMA; WOMEN'S INTEREST] LEONIE ADAMS, HANDWRITTEN LETTER/ALS, 5" x 6-1/2", 2 pages on right hand pages of folded sheet for 4 pages/about 150 words, dated September 10, 1961, to "Dear Sigrid" in Valley Cottage, New York, replying to letter from Sigrid presumably in sympathy upon death of Leonie's husband, reading in part, "Many though late, thanks for you lovely letter…I trust that you and Stephen [de Lima's husband Stephan Greene] and the daughter, I shall met again…Bill [husband William Troy, d. May 26, 1961] died peacefully, even though after great suffering…", with envelope addressed by hand with New Milford, Connecticut, return address, Leonie Adams signature in return address with first couple of letters in her first name separated from the way the letter was opened at this corner, letter laid in in copy of Poems – A Selection by Leonie Adams, inscribed, "For Sigrid de Lima, with confidence in her books to come and esteem for those… Read More

[HISPANIC LITERATURE, TEXT IN SPANISH; AUTHOR SIGNED COPY; WOMEN'S INTEREST; RARE] TRES CANTATAS AL MAR - Al Dormido Mar, Al Mar Que Despierta, Al Despierto Mar - Libro primero de las cantatas, by Ilka Krupkin, inscribed and signed by the poet to noted Cuban emigree poet Rita Geada, published by Editor El Maguntina, Buenos Aires, 1947, Segunda Edicion (stated on title page), inscribed and signed by the poet on the half-title page, "a Rita Geada, poeta, Cuba libre, recuedo de Ilka Krupkin, 1961/Vergara 1891, Florida (B.A.), Argentina", (detached but present) softcover/paper wraps, 7-1/2" x 9-3/4", 2-color/red-and-black text front cover and title page, 30 pages, some red text on interior pages; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee /// CONDITION: very good or better condition, detached cover worn with edgewear, small triangular chip at front beside bottom of spine, 1" closed tear at front edge of bottom of spine, loss of bottom 2" of spine, light fading to cover, small "91+T" in pen… Read More

[THEODORE LYMAN WRIGHT BELOIT COLLEGE 18 LINE HANDWRITTEN POEM ON SAINT GAUDEN'S STATUE ROCK CREEK CEMETERY WASHINTON, D.C., 1920s] THEODORE LYMAN WRIGHT, unpublished 18 line/3 stanza handwritten poem on the back of a 10" x 8" black-and-white photograph of the statue commonly known as "Grief" by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens for the Adams Memorial in Washington D. C.'s Rock Creek Cemetery, the poem was presumably written for Wright's friend Theron J. Damon (see notes and provenance below) who worked in D. C. for the Office of War Information (OWI) during World War I, initialed twice"TLW", at the end of the first stanza and the end of the third stanza/end of poem, excerpts "She might have stormed, as Shakespeare's ladies should / In tears and laughter striding down the scene — She calmly sitteth in her little wood… 'Life and Grief are — good'…She sits above them in a Deathless mood…How many marvels glisten in God's sun…To hear the clatter of the stones and fame — But Time nor… Read More