Formal Introductions: An Investigative Anthology
signed Ecru linen over decorative boards, printed paper spine label.
1994 · [West Chester, PA:]
by Gioia, Dana, [editor]
[West Chester, PA:] Aralia Press at West Chester University, 1994 One of 210 copies. . Ecru linen over decorative boards, printed paper spine label. . Tall octavo. Title in blue and black. Printed on Johnnot paper. Fine condition. Contributor Tom Disch's copy, inscribed by the printer: "Thank you, Tom. Mike Peich," and bearing the signatures of four of the contributors beneath their respective poems (Dana Gioia, Bruce Bawer, Rachel Hadas, Charles Martin, Robert B. Shaw). With a trial pull of the "Table of Contents" laid in, inscribed on the conjugate blank by Peich to Disch, with a note arranging a reading in Chelsea in January. Also laid in is a typed letter signed by Disch to Peich after the Chelsea reading, enthusiastically responding to a proposal by Peich for an Aralia Press edition of Disch's sestinas and villanelles, with a list of twelve of his poems ("it's all I've done in those forms in the course of 20 years"). A beautifully produced anthology. Dana Gioia has signed the title-page, as well as his own poem. (Inventory #: 14787)