Temporary Dwellings (Pitt Poetry Series) de Phyllis Janowitz - 1987-12

Excellent condition. Pages unmarked, boards straight, no creasing to spine. Dust jacket in excellent condition, very minimal shelfwear.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original green cloth and fine dust jacket.. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.75 in. 77 pp.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, 1988. Hardcover in dust jacket, 77 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Handsome copy.

Pitt Poetry Series. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and ornamental design in silver at top of front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 77 pages.
"The title poem of this collection is about a family that goes to a summer cottage each year with the certainty that everyone will have a wonderful time; every year various misadventures occur, but the family never loses its buoyant, if slightly ridiculous, optimism. That family, Phyllis Janowitz suggests, is like all of us, always believing that the future will be better than the past, knowing that the idea of permanence is an illusion, but living as if it \were not. If Janowitz's themes are ultimately bleak, her poems are not: knowing and fanciful, they employ a remarkably precise and surprising diction in the service of an imagination which sees the surreal as our ordinary state."

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