The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author in ink on the front fly leaf ("For ______ | who made towns | trigger | Dick"). The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector, whose name is also written in ink on the front free endpaper.
109pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; full brown cloth with title stamped in gold on the spine; in the pictorial dust jacket. First edition statement and full number line printed on the copyright page. The book is in near fine condition with just a touch of sunning showing on the cloth at the top- and fore-edge. The dust jacket shows some light edgewear and is significantly sunfaded at its spine and (much less so) around the top edges. The dust jacket's front flap is machine-clipped at its bottom corner, with the price ($9.95) still intact at its top corner. A solid, square, and clean copy. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #70753
ISBN: 0393088391
A warmly inscribed first edition of this collection of essays and lectures on poetry wherein Hugo explores, among other things, the concept of "triggering" to enter an imaginative space to generate the words and rhythms of a poem. The theme of the book and the theme of the author's signed inscription on this book align quite neatly.
Poet and teacher Richard Hugo (1923–1982, Seattle, Washington) was known for his regional and melancholic work which explored the landscapes, forgotten towns, and working-class concerns of the Pacific Northwest.
Price: $150.00