MY EXPERIENCES IN PARNASSUS : SPARROW 53 (SIGNED BY POET)
by Rakosi, Carl
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition. Staplebound Pamphlet. Very Good. Santa, Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press. First edition. 9 x 6 inches: pp. 13. Tan wraps with black type.
Signed by author inside front cover. Some light wear on spine. Text is unmarked. Binding firm.
A selection of poems and notes from Rakosi, including the title piece, "Poetics from Chelm",
Gargoyles", "Memoir", "The Ordeal of Moses", "As an American", and "Variations on a Theme by Mocking Bird". Rakosi (1903-2004), was one of the poets referred to as "Objectivist" poets. SIGNED by Carl Rakosi on p. 2 (counting cover). "SPARROW appears monthly. It prints poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, commentaries & reviews. Each issue presents the work of a single author. The poet is prophet." (from front cover).
"It takes great discipline to be spontaneous."
"My poems keep getting smaller and smaller not because I have less to say but because I have become more rigorous."
Signed by author inside front cover. Some light wear on spine. Text is unmarked. Binding firm.
A selection of poems and notes from Rakosi, including the title piece, "Poetics from Chelm",
Gargoyles", "Memoir", "The Ordeal of Moses", "As an American", and "Variations on a Theme by Mocking Bird". Rakosi (1903-2004), was one of the poets referred to as "Objectivist" poets. SIGNED by Carl Rakosi on p. 2 (counting cover). "SPARROW appears monthly. It prints poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, commentaries & reviews. Each issue presents the work of a single author. The poet is prophet." (from front cover).
"It takes great discipline to be spontaneous."
"My poems keep getting smaller and smaller not because I have less to say but because I have become more rigorous."
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- Seller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 632
- Title
- MY EXPERIENCES IN PARNASSUS : SPARROW 53 (SIGNED BY POET)
- Author
- Rakosi, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Staplebound Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Ezra Pound, Louis Zukovsky, Jewish American poets
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Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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