first edition Hardcover
1942 · Prairie City, Illinois
by (BERRYMAN, John, Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell, Weldon Kees, Stanley J. Kunitz, Eve Merriam, Howard Moss, Muriel Rukeyser, Yvor Winters, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and others). Alan Swallow, edited by
Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Swallow. Tall octavo. 133, [20] pp. Light wear at the corners and spine ends, titling a bit dulled, near fine. Owner signature of Edward Hart, who is not a contributor but cited in the "Honor Roll of Poets," listing poems published in 1942 (citing his poem "Holiday," which appeared the *Rocky Mountain Review*). Hart was a Rhodes Scholar and professor of English at BYU. Prints the first book appearance of poems by John Berryman ("The Spinning Heart"); Theodore Roethke ("City Limits"); Randall Jarrell ("The Iceberg" and (truncated)