first edition Hardcover
1977 · New York
by Bidart, Frank
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1977. Hardcover. 44p., a warm inscription signed and dated may 18, 1977 very good first edition, stated in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Second book of poetry by the gay poet and educator who was a student of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. Recently, he worked with James Franco on short films. His book Half-Light: Collected poems won the Pulitzer in 2018. Includes the story/poem "Ellen West" about an anorexic woman who loathed her woman body.
(Inventory #: 252809)