Allman, John

Clio's Children: Poems

ISBN: 0811209350
New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "The snow will never be | so perfect again, blue in the dusk, | his weariness lit by candles in windows: not the slave's | heavy footfall here in Boston, on the way to Tremont Temple, | where messengers line up, | hand touching hand, Lincoln's pulse | already entering a telegrapher's wrist..." ("Frederick Douglass Waiting for News of the Emancipation Proclamation 1863", pgs. 8-9). A collection of poems by John Allman (b. 1935), the acclaimed & distinguished American poet & two-time winner of the National Endowment for the Arts in Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry (1984, 1990). Twenty-three different poems creating an interesting timeline of history's greats, from 1849 with Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) in "Dostoevsky at Semyonov Square 1849" (pgs. 3-7) to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the man instrumental in the creation of the world's first nuclear bomb in "J. Robert Oppenheimer at Alamogordo 1945" (pgs. 80-81). From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), poet, editor, and professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket: first edition, first printing though neither explicated as such thereon. An essential Allman collectible in its rarest contemporary form, greatly enriched by its distinguished provenance. Book in relatively fine-to-very fine condition with minor rubbing & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; an occurrence of age-toning, mostly to fine edges of same; minor age-toning, spotting to text block; small black remainder mark across lower width of same. Interior relatively fine-to-very fine with very slight age-toning; minor bleeding from the remainder mark at center of bottom fine edges of most pages. Dust jacket relatively fine-to-very fine with only a bit of rubbing & mostly faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; moderate age-toning at edges & corners of same, flaps, and blank inner dust jacket. Fine-Very Fine / Fine-Very Fine. [Item #8065]

Price: $35.00