Bronk, William

Utterances

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "There are no near galaxies: this/ as far as any, if not in terms of miles,/ we know how meaningless miles are/ in terms of miles. How far from me to you?// Everything is, almost in the utterance,/ metaphor- as we measure miles, and miles/ are meaningless, but we know what distance is:/ unmeasurable. But there are distances." ("Utterances," unpaginated) A collection of three poems including the title poem (quoted in its entirety above), "The Loss of Grass, Trees, Water" & "The Unbecoming of Wanted and Wanter" by William Bronk (1918-1999), the acclaimed & award-winning American poet. A beautiful, hand-crafted letterpress production, large-format chapbook in stapled wrappers in loose over-wrap with flaps. One of an edition of 250 copies hand-numbered at colophon, this is copy No. 76/250. A rare & rewarding collectible in the prolific Bronk oeuvre. In fine condition with light rubbing, areas of fading, faint scratching & occasional spotting to surfaces of over-wrap; a bit of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps; ditto edges & corners of blank stapled inner wraps; very light browning to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only a hint of browning to blank margins/edges of page leaves; tiny bumps at corners, upper edges of a few of same. Fine. [Item #5372]

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