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Apalache
by Metcalf, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. First printing. 178 pp., 5.75 x 8.75 inches. Printed papers over boards in printed dust-jacket. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, from Linotype setting by Holbrook Teter. Very mild bumps at foot and crown of spine, otherwise a fine copy in a very good jacket with tiny edge chips and closed tears, and a ghost of an old price sticker.
A "New Word symphonic poem composed from native documents in the native tongue" (from the publisher's blurb). Wendell Berry says, "Here is our memory, our continent's memory, pressed onto the page by force of insight. it is a memory that measures us, where we stand by it or not. Paul Metcalf has given us a landmark . . . A wonderful book, a lovely book in every way."
A "New Word symphonic poem composed from native documents in the native tongue" (from the publisher's blurb). Wendell Berry says, "Here is our memory, our continent's memory, pressed onto the page by force of insight. it is a memory that measures us, where we stand by it or not. Paul Metcalf has given us a landmark . . . A wonderful book, a lovely book in every way."
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4701
- Title
- Apalache
- Author
- Metcalf, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Turtle Island Foundation
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Passages Bookshop
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Portland, Oregon
About Passages Bookshop
Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com
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