signed first edition Softcover
1986 · (Memphis, Tennessee)
by BLY, Robert
(Memphis, Tennessee): Raccoon Books, Inc, 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by William Booth. Poet David Ignatow's copy with a printed bookplate inside the front cover. Plain stapled wrappers in printed dust jacket. Light wear and the jacket with a tiny bit of soil on the rear panel, near fine. Inscribed to Ignatow on the front fly: "For David, with love and admiration always, Robert." Bly's analysis of Jung's idea of "the shadow," the repressed world that a person has tried to forget. "In the present collection of Bly's explorations of the shadow there is more poetry and storytelling than doctrinaire psychological (truncated)