Natures: Natures .... just $106.60

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Natures .... just $106.60

An idle BookFinder search, and ...wow. I knew prices were going up, but ...

Natures prices certainly show quite a range:

Used books: 1 - 4 of 4

# Bookseller Notes Total Price

1 Small Press Distribution
via AbeBooks
[United States] Publisher: New Native Press
New condition; Poetry. This collection of poems written over the course of a career, like poems from Rappachini's garden, remind us of what we have longed for, as well as what we might have lost. [blah, blah]
$17.00

2 Half.com
[United States] Softcover, ISBN 1883197228
Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006

$84.82

3 Barnes & Noble.com
[United States] Softcover, ISBN 1883197228
Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006

$102.89

4 Amazon.co.uk
[United States] Softcover, ISBN 1883197228
Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006
Used, very good, Ships from USA. Delivered in 10-12 business days. Money back guarantee!, Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
$106.60

( All matching used books shown )

#	Bookseller	Notes	Total Price
1	Small Press Distribution via AbeBooks [United States]	Publisher: New Native Press New condition; Poetry. This collection of poems written over the course of a career, like poems from Rappachini's garden, remind us of what we have longed for, as well as what we might have lost. [blah, blah]	$17.00
2	Half.com [United States]	Softcover, ISBN 1883197228 Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006	$84.82
3	Barnes & Noble.com [United States]	Softcover, ISBN 1883197228 Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006	$102.89
4	Amazon.co.uk [United States]	Softcover, ISBN 1883197228 Publisher: New Native Pr, 2006 Used, very good, Ships from USA. Delivered in 10-12 business days. Money back guarantee!, Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days	$106.60
( All matching used books shown )

Or you could just buy one by dropping me an email for a bit less. I am starting to rethink that $12.50 price, but for now ...

And for $16.00 (plus postage of course, at these prices), you can get both Natures and Transits of Venus, the chapbook that preceded it in the fall of 2005.

(Brought to you by the Shameless Commerce Division here at Wildwood Press)

Labels: books, NatureS

Praise for NatureS

"Way back when, a literary gent by the name of E.L. Pound, from Hailey, Idaho, announced to the world: 'I divide poetry into what I can read and what I cannot read.' I am new to Jeff Davis's work but hit'll read!!! It reminds me that writers named Robert Creeley and Charles Olson once taught at Black Mountain College in Buncombe County NC - and made a difference."

~Jonathan Williams

"These poems are succinct in language and insights - no waste of words here - lovely and moving jewels of the Eleusinian luminous darkness, a magnificent shining in the dark. Poems (all of them) that are gifts, with a sassy bit of awareness to ground them all. At their best, they show an excellent eye and ear for the images and rhythms of nature - fresh, clear, as any sparkling mountain stream - and sing with that limpidity Olson was always trying to drum into my head at Black Mountain. Jeff Davis is a poet who knows what most males thirst to know - and die, not knowing. 'I am written,' Rimbaud said, and he is just that in these poems."

~Michael Rumaker

"Being human and part of nature, what we have in common with the natural world is something we gain then lose, gain then lose, over and over. The continual process of holding and letting go makes up the world we smell, we taste, we see, we feel, we hear, we share. As the custodian of this experience we have none better than Jeff Davis. He has been tireless in his practice of recording these dark and luminous encounters: the flicker of love, or the shadow of leaves in the wind."

~Thomas Meyer