Book by Simpson, Louis

Book is unmarked and unlined. It only shows very slight aging around the spine and back cover. Overall the book could hardly be in better condition given its age.

In this vital collection of new and selected work, Jack Marshall never lets readers forget that they are meat-on-the-bone, organic beings incomplete in nature, often rattled by the tricky fortune of possessing free will and consciousness. With voice steady and language sublime, Marshall imparts a studied view of being alive and the possibilities that abound before, during, and after our earthly tryst as -psyche meeting flesh. Jack Marshall was born in 1936 to Arabic-Jewish parents, and often mines these clashing cultures in his work. His critically acclaimed books include Sesame, a PEN West Literary winner and National Book Critics Circle finalist. He lives in San Francisco, California.

The poems in this collection by the author of The Same Sea in Us All were written in the 1980s. Many of the poems are rooted in the poet's appreciation of the natural and domestic world, so that bees, washing, coal and plumtrees give a welcome concreteness to his philosophical meditations.

Book by Layton, Irving

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

First edition hard cover. From the collection of Nina Carroll (Steane) and John Steane, John being the former county archaeologist for Oxfordshire, a founder member of the Oxford Buildings Record and the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust. Gift dedication and signature from author on FEP and correspondence between Nina Carroll and Gerda Meyer laid in. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light wear to jacket, corners bumped, and pageblock tanned. Within, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN