PRIMITIF AMERICAIN; poems traduits de l'americain par Alain Bosquet
signed first edition
1993 · Paris
by SMITH, William Jay
Paris: Belfond, 1993. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 71. Printed wraps. Signed by Smith. Fine. William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. (Inventory #: 58429)