Poetry in Crystal
first edition Hardcover
1963 · Corning
by Steuben Glass
Corning: Corning Glass Works, 1963. First. Hardcover. VG, light wear around edges, light foxing on bottom edge, interior clean and tight. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. 86 pp. 31 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Interpretations in crystal of thirty-one new poems by contemporary American poets, based on collaboration between poets and Steuben. Distinguished American poets submitted new, unpublished poems, and glass designers created glass pieces based on their interpretations of the poems. Text reproduces the poems and their glass pieces. The poets include Conrad Aiken, Sara Van Alstyne Allen, W. H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Witter Bynner, Melville Cane, Gustav Davidson, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Donald Hall, Cecil Hemley, Robert Hillyer, John Holmes, and Robinson Jeffers, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shaprio, W. D. Snodgrass, Am. M. Sullivan, Hollis Summers, May Swenson, Joseph Tusiani, Mark Van Doren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, and William Carlos Williams. Glass designers include Lloyd Atkins, Frank Eliscu, James Houston, Dale Joe, Leon Kroll, Jacob Landau, Clare Leighton, Bruce Moore, William Philips, Donald Pollard, Alexander Seidel, Elizabeth Silvagni, George Thompason, Robert Vickrey, Tom Vincent, Sidney Waugh, and Don Wier. (Inventory #: 27427)