signed first edition Softcover
1977 · (Los Cerrillos, New Mexicto
by LUSCHEI, Glenna
(Los Cerrillos, New Mexicto: San Marcos Press, 1977. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Mark Bryan. Small quarto. Stapled wrappers. Near fine with toning to the wraps. Inscribed by the author to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Karl Shapiro and his wife. Glenna Luschei (the pen name for Glenna Berry-Horton) was a rancher from California who, when not advocating for agricultural women workers, was a poet and publisher who edited the poetry magazines *Café Solo* and *Solo* for nearly 40 years. Luschei was a student of Shapiro's at the University of Nebraska, where she later she endowed in perpetuity the literary quarterly *Prairie Schooner* as well as establish an annual prize for African poets.
(Inventory #: 454475)