THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER & OTHER POEMS; a selection in Honor of William Meredith's 85th birthday
signed first edition
2003 · [Mystic, CT]
by MEREDITH, William
[Mystic, CT]: Mystic Seaport, 2003. First Edition. rom Wikipedia: William Morris Meredith, Jr. (1919 - 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. He began writing while a college student at Princeton University where with his first volume of poetry Love Letter from an Impossible Land was selected by Archibald MacLeish for publication as part of Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. In 1988 Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems and in 1997 he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech. Meredith was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Carl Sandburg Award, and the International Vaptsarov Prize in Poetry.. 8vo, pp.192 (the first 61 pages have photos and text, the rest of the book is blank lined paper. Bound in brown leather with a clasp. Signed by Meredith on the title page as a printed name in ink. Front endpaper is stiff paper Naval Aviation poster, ca. 1943 and back endpaper is a Navy Day poster, ca. 1944. rom Wikipedia: William Morris Meredith, Jr. (1919 - 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. He began writing while a college student at Princeton University where with his first volume of poetry Love Letter from an Impossible Land was selected by Archibald MacLeish for publication as part of Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. In 1988 Meredith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems and in 1997 he won the National Book Award for Poetry for Effort at Speech. Meredith was also awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Carl Sandburg Award, and the International Vaptsarov Prize in Poetry. (Inventory #: 58553)