Barbara A. HOlland

BARBARA A. HOLLAND: SELECTED POEMS, VOLUME 1

This publication is the first of two volumes bringing together the selected works of America’s great imaginative poet, Barbara A. Holland (1925-1988). It is based upon a 112-page edition published in 1980 and ambitiously titled Collected Poems, Volume 1. Only a few hundred copies of Collected Poems were circulated. After the poet’s death in 1988, the project fell into limbo. The first volume should instead be regarded as the commencement of her “Selected Poems,” a still-living poet’s choice of the works she wanted to preserve. A number of poems had previously appeared only in magazines, many of them already extinct by 1980. Additionally, we included the complete text of her earlier chapbooks: A Game of Scraps; Penny Arcana; Melusine Discovered; On This High Hill; Lens, Light & Sound; and You Could Die Laughing. The poems from an unpublished chapbook, East from Here, were likewise included.

For this expanded edition, completely re-typeset and corrected, we have added additional poems that Holland selected for a 1983 collection, Running Backwards, published by Warthog Press.

This is the 271st publication of The Poet’s Press. Published March 2020. 230 pages, 6 x 9 inches. PDF Ebook free to read online and to download from The Internet Archive. READ OR DOWNLOAD SELECTED POEMS, VOLUME 1.

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Version 1.1 Updated January 13, 2026.