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The Interweaving Poetry of American History: "Near Frontiers" (Only Signed Copy)
Published by Pageant Press, New York, 1967
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy of this book for sale on the Internet. It is signed and inscribed on the first front end paper. The inscription appears to be from the author's wife, afterward he signed his name separately. The inscription reads: To Mr. + Mrs. Hoadley, new-found friends sharing some old well-forged channels--- Marion and (and then below that) Sherwood Trask, Sept. 1967.' Take a look at the photo. The covers of the book are in very good condition, very clean with just a couple of dark spots. There is very little wear, small creases just below the tips of three corners. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover, with nicely tight pages. These pages are very clean. They are also in very good shape, a few consecutive once have a thin crease off their middle edge. There are no placeholder creases, no dogeared corners. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And with the exception of the aforementioned inscription and signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. From the introduction: The poetry of Sherwood Trask, a large portion of which appears in print for the first time here, belongs to the past half century. It appears at a time when others of his poetic generation (the 1920s and 1930s) are either appearing in retrospective editions and anthologies, or remain compact and forgotten in the poetry journals of the past. He knocks at the portals, then, when the banquet of his generation has long since ended, when entirely new voices are heard. He arrives in that most ambiguous and uncertain position of all----an unexpected guest. Yet he is a poet of the first magnitude.' Trask's poetry appeared in a number of journals in the 1920s and 30s, including T. S. Eliot's New Criterion. Eliot wrote to him: 'I liked the poem which we published (' A Footnote in History') so much that I hope you will continue to let me see your work.' It was the Scottish poet Edwin Muir who originally brought Trask's poems to Eliot's attention. Trask began teaching at The Walden School in New York City in 1927 and remained there until his retirement in 1955. Inscribed by Author(s).
