Starting Out for the Difficult World
by Dana, Robert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060550945
- ISBN 13
- 9780060550943
- Seller
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & and Row, 1987. 95 pp. A small black mark on the front of the dj, visible in the photo. Dana is the author of In a Fugitive Season; The Power of the Visible; Some Versions of Silence; Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers; Blood Harvest; What the Stones Know; Journeys from the Skin; The Dark Flags of Waking; My Glass Brother and Other Poems. 'Great art, someone said, / rides on the backs of the poor. / Perhaps that's so. But this / is not Long Island. No packed / white waves leap yelping on the shore. / Here, the nights are cold and starry. / Three solitary clouds pig along / the near horizon. And you could / mistake this autumn for Keats's / or your own, or the / autumn of someone you once new.'--from ''Starting Out for the Difficult World.''. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000413
- Title
- Starting Out for the Difficult World
- Author
- Dana, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060550945
- ISBN 13
- 9780060550943
- Publisher
- Harper & and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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