GRAVES REGISTRY. Poems
first edition Hardcover
1992 · Livingston
by Wilson, Keith
Livingston: Clark City, 1992. First Edition thus. Hardcover. A fine copy/a fine dust jacket. This volume collects the poets previous 'parts' of his 'registry'. 216pp. Nominated for the National Book Award (1992). Parts I, II, and III were published by Grove Press, 1969. Parts IV and V were published as Midwatch by Sumac Press, 1972. Some of these poems and some from the new Parts VI, VII, and VIII (all new works) have appeared in magazines. His honors included the D.H. Lawrence Fellowship, P.E.N.-America Center Writing Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Senior Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Romania, New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, Authors of the Pass Western States Arts Foundation Book Award, P.E.N.-West Book Award, the Border Book Festival's Premio Frontereza Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Doña Ana Arts Council's Papen Award and the Westhafer Teaching Award, NMSU's first such award to a professor in the creative art. He passed in 2009. From the estate of Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many writers. 216pp. (Inventory #: 12851)