Bromige, David

Threads

ISBN: 0876850204
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Limited Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Having died/ I was laid with eyes wide open in an open kind of grave/ tesselated marble, glazed/ I gazed up at the sky/ A stoned & Mayday gritty kind of sky// The camera stopped pretending to be me/ It panned down, having drawn back/ to show I lay, all senses but this vision numb, in a wide screen/ of sky & tile, to reveal the acqueduct/ (disused I guess) that held me up// Down, down, a long way, to the ground, no/ to the river" a voice said/ The better the life he lived/ the higher they raised him from the waters" " ("In His Image," pg. 9) A collection of evocative, hallucinatory poems by David Bromige (1933-2009), the acclaimed British-born Canadian-American poet associated with the New American & Language poets. Bromige's association with Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan & their mentor's-mentor Charles Olson also places him under the influence of the Black Mountain School-&-beyond. Trade-format softcover, one of 1000 copies in the first trade edition (from a total edition of 1226 copies) per colophon- an exemplary, calmly riveting earlier Black Sparrow production. From the collection of Albert Glover (b. 1942), the esteemed American poet, publisher, editor & academician who is the foremost living authority on Olson (1910-1970), the Great Mountain-Top American poet who is our favorite Maximus Obscurantist. Glover studied under & was anointed by the Maximus Master himself, & is his greatest torch-bearer as bibliographer, editor & publisher. An essential Bromige collectible in its rarest contemporary limited trade form, with the highest & most-relevant provenance. See also our item No.s 6254, 6541. In exceptionally relatively very fine condition with only the slightest touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a few miniscule bumps, creases at edges & corners of same; very slight rubbing, age-toning & occasional spotting to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps at corners of a few page leaves. Very Fine. [Item #8373]

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