New York, NY, USA: William Morrow and Company, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed note in card envelope included. Diane Ackerman (b. 1948) is described as a poet, essayist, and naturalist with seven volumes of poetry and fifteen nonfiction books published since 1976, and her subjects have varied far and wide with whatever peaks her intellectual or creative curiosity. Lady Faustus is her third volume of poetry, and the poems here..... More