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A COAST OF TREES.
by Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket./gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393014479
- ISBN 13
- 9780393014471
- Seller
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About This Item
New York & London:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp.
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- Title
- A COAST OF TREES.
- Author
- Ammons, A. R (1926-2001)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393014479
- ISBN 13
- 9780393014471
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York & London:
- Date Published
- (1981)
- Keywords
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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