first edition
1995 · Hopewell, N.J.
by Graham, Jorie
Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 199, [1]; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket with the Pulitzer winner seal on the front. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Graham to Merker: "For the only true bookmaker Jorie Graham with all my love (& our years together!)." The poet's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of verse. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She was chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where she (truncated)