AROUND MY ROOM; illustrations by Erik Blegvad
first edition
2000 · NY
by SMITH, William Jay
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. First Edition. Erik Blegvad. 4to, pp. (32). A fine copy in dj. Illustrations in color. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate (truncated)