Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1991
ISBN 10: 1556590350 ISBN 13: 9781556590351
Anbieter: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. 117p., first edition, very good condition in like dj. Poetry.
Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 1991
Anbieter: Brothertown Books, Deansboro, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The distinguished American poet, Thomas McGrath, has been courageous in more ways than one. He found himself being dismissed from teaching jobs because he dared to appear in the 1950s as an 'unfriendly witness" before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. With this book, "Death Song", McGrath bravely faced, accepted serenely, and embraced his own oncoming demise. In these poems McGrath looks death in the face and finds, not an implacable enemy, but a natural progression from one state of being to another. As it says on the book's cover, "Mcgrath celebrated life more nakedly, more enthusiastically, than any American poet since Whitman, reaffirming our interconnectedness with one another and with the natural world." This was Thomas McGrath's last book., issued posthumously after his death in September, 1990. ************************************* TITLE : Death Song / AUTHOR : Thomas McGrath (Thomas Matthew McGrath, 1916 - 1990) / EDITOR : Sam Hamill / INTRODUCTION : Dale Jacobson / IMPRINT : Copper Canyon Press / PLACE : Port Townsend, Washington / DATE : (1991) / EDITION : First Edition in Paperback Format (Issued simultaneously with the hardcover.) / STATUS : OP Out of Print / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade paperback; Contains an Introduction ; 117 pages; approximately 6" x 9"; pictorial wraps, glued. ********************************************** CONDITION - VERY GOOD - Clean and bright , with the following noted: EXTERIOR : Near-negligible surface rub and a bit of edge nicking, and soft bumps to corner tips, else bright and attractive / BINDING : Solid, tight / INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked /.
Verlag: Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1991., 1991
ISBN 10: 1556590350 ISBN 13: 9781556590351
Anbieter: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, USA
hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 117 p. ; 24 cm.