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Allen, Dick. Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic: Poems<\/em>. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State<\/em> University Press, 1984.\u00a0 Includes a lengthy presentation inscription from Allen to X. J. Kennedy.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Alcools: Po\u00e8mes 1898-1913<\/em>. Paris: Gallimard, 1955.\u00a0 Includes the ownership note: \u201cKennedy Paris Dec. 55.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Austin, Peter. On Occasion: Poems<\/em>. Torrance, California: White Violet Press, 2012.\u00a0 Inscribed by the author.\u00a0 X. J. Kennedy\u2019s blurb appears on the rear cover.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brooks, Gwendolyn. To Disembark.\u00a0 Chicago:<\/em> Third World Press, 1981.\u00a0 Bears the note \u201cKennedy 12\/82 from Grolier.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chernoff, Maxine. New Faces of 1952<\/em>. Ithaca, N.Y.: Ithaca House, 1985.\u00a0 Author’s autograph presentation copy, inscribed \u201cfor Joe,\u201d dated 10\/21\/85.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ciardi, John. Other Skies: Poems<\/em>.\u00a0 Boston: Little, Brown, 1947.\u00a0 Bears the note \u201cKennedy Ann Arbor March 1960.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clifton, Lucille. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-<\/em>2010. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2012.\u00a0 Laid into this copy is a letter from the publishers to X.J. and Dorothy Kennedy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collins, Billy. The Art of Drowning<\/em>. Pitt Poetry Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.\u00a0 X.J. Kennedy has written a short blurb on the rear cover: \u201cNobody else today writes quite like Collins, and few indeed write any better.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cullen, Countee. Collected Poems<\/em>. New York, N.Y.: Library of America, 2013.\u00a0 X.J. Kennedy has written the following note on the rear free endpaper of this collection of poems by one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance: \u201cSome lyrics like Teasdale\u2019s; some in similar form, but Gutsier.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Espaillat, Rhina P. Agua de dos R\u00edos: poemas, prosa y traducciones: una colecci\u00f3n biling\u00fce<\/em>. Santo Domingo, Rep\u00fablica Dominicana: Secretar\u00eda de Estado de Cultura, Editora Nacional, 2006.\u00a0 Inscribed by the author to \u201cJoe and Dorothy\u201d with an autograph card laid in.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finlay, Ian Hamilton. They Returned Home Tired, but Happy<\/em>. Dunsyre, Lanark: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972.\u00a0 Folded card illustrated by Ian Gardner.\u00a0 Accompanied by an autograph note from Ian Hamilton Finlay: \u201cDear X. J. Kennedy, your Counter\/Measures arrived today.\u00a0 This is The End. Yours sincerely, Ian Hamilton Finlay.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finlay, Ian Hamilton. A Pretty Kettle of Fish<\/em>. Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1974.\u00a0 This chapbook contains the short picture poem \u201cSail Plan\u201d which is dedicated \u201cFor X. J. Kennedy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gilbert, Jack. Views of Jeopardy<\/em>.\u00a0 New Haven: Yale University Press: New Haven, 1962.\u00a0 Bears the note: \u201cKennedy Feb \u201962 Review copy from N.Y. Times.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gioia, Dana. Daily Horoscope: Poems<\/em>. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1986.\u00a0 Laid into this copy are two letters from the author to Kennedy, as well as a photograph and a published interview with Dana Gioia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hall, Donald. The Museum of Clear Ideas<\/em>. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993.\u00a0 X.J. Kennedy\u2019s copy of The Museum of Clear Ideas<\/em> includes two poetry broadsides inscribed by Donald Hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kizer, Carolyn. Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems, 1960-2000<\/em>. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.\u00a0 A copy of Kizer\u2019s obituary from the Boston Globe<\/em> is laid in X. J. Kennedy\u2019s copy of this collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tynan, Katharine. The Poems of Katherine Tynan<\/em>, edited by Monk Gibbon. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1963.\u00a0 Bears the autograph note: \u201cKennedys Dublin April 1965.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wagoner, David. Collected Poems 1956-1976<\/em>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.\u00a0 Bears the autograph note: \u201cKennedys Review copy from Parnassus<\/em> Jan. 77.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waldrop, Rosmarie, and Keith Waldrop. Well Reality<\/em>. Sausalito, Calif.: Post-Apollo Press, 1998.\u00a0 Presentation inscription from the authors.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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