Darker Ends: Poems Tapa dura - 1969

New York. 1969. March 1969. Hill & Wang. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0809037556. 53 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ben Clarke. keywords: Poetry England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In his native England, Robert Nye is considered ‘one of the most startlingly original poets writing today' (John Horder, London Tribune). Darker Ends, the first collection of his poetry to appear in the United States, gives American readers a chance to appreciate the justness of this regard. Here are poems about two self-adoring people separated in marriage, about a bat in a box, buying bread, finding sixpence, and fishing for stars. The visions of these poems are at times entrancing, at times terrible - but the terror is checked by the mastery with which it is expressed. Obviously for Robert Nye, as for all good poets, words have a magic and ultimate power for those with the gift of using them well. Mr. Nye published his first poems in The London Magazine when he was sixteen. (One of these -… Leer más

Hill & Wang, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.2690 in x 20.5584 in x 14.2132 in.

Hill & Wang, 1969-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 8x5x0. Stated first edition, March 1969. Softcover edition published by Hill & Wang. (NOT hardcover). Book slightly curved; spine faded; embossed stamping of private library on title page. No text markings noted.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Hill and Wang. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0809037556 . INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Rolland Comstock (my faithful American reader) - Robert Nye 1991." "Darker Ends, the first collection of his poetry to appear in the United States, gives American readers a chance to appreciate the justness of this regard. Here are poems about two self-adoring people separated in marriage, about a bat in a box, buying bread, finding sixpence, and fishing for stars." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, minor edge wear, fabric along head edge lightly faded, tiny bumps on top corners, head edge color faded near spine; overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge wear, faded on spine and head edges of covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages; Signed by Author .