barry spacks edited john ridland (2 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. periodical, 5 2/4" tall, 28 pages, saddle stitch, stiff printed wraps. A very good, clean, neat issue with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white.

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. Nina Miller Ilustrador. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Printed at Bill Horton's Sun Press, Santa Barbara. ***Near fine in rose-red card wrappers. Spine slightly faded. No inscriptions. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. ***150 mm x150 mm. 28 pages including two-page introduction by the poet, Barry Spacks. Two-page note on the poet by the editor to the rear. ***Contents: Acknowledgments, A Note on Poetry by Barry Spacks; Twenty Poems by Barry Spacks: October, Dandy, Freshmen, Recommendations, The Company of Children, The Artichoke, Exercises: 1. The Rose 2. The Onion 3. The Egg, Song of the Long-Married Man, Homage to Henry James, The Solitary at Seventeen, Widow, The Pedagogical Guest and the Child, Birthday, The Changing, Blind in his Sorrow, In the Calm and Measured Country, At Thirty-Five, Envoi, A Note on this Issue. ***Barry Spacks (1931?2014), was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a professor and prize-winning poet and novelist. He taught writing and literature at MIT from 1960 to 1981, then taught in the English Department and the College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara for 32 years. He was poet laureate of the City of Santa Barbara from 2005 to 2007. ***The Little Square Review ran for ten numbers in eight issues as follows: the first four issues each featured the work of a single poet: 1) Walter Clark, 2) Robert Peters, 3) Edwin Fussell, and 4) Barry Spacks. The joint 5th/6th joint issue featured work by and about Native Americans. The 7th issue featured "Three Poets of the Inland West" - Robert Brandts, F. R. Bresgal and Dick Strong. The 8th issue was the "Flying Fingers" issue and featured Floyce Alexander, Robert Davies and Tom Artin. The final issue was the joint 9th/10th issue, the "Waving hands" issue, and contained 49 poems by seven poets. ***First impression of the true first edition of the fourth issue of The Little Square Review in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of 1960s American poetry first edition small press and magazine titles. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Inscribed by Author(s).