Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions 1968-1981
Port Townsend, Washington: Graywolf Press, 1983. First edition. First printing statement on the copyright page followed by a number line starting with 2. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author with a short inscription in black ink on the title page ("For ______ | - all the best - | William Stafford"). The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector. 112pp. Octavo [21cm]; quarter light blue cloth with gray paper over boards. Gray endpapers. In the original pictorial dust jacket. A nice copy with some sun fading to the spine and top edge of the dust jacket. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #70785
ISBN: 0915308401
This work collects nearly 100 poems selected from fourteen limited edition books. William Stafford received a National Book Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Shelley Memorial Award. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970-71. Graywolf Press was founded in 1974, in Port Townsend, Washington, by Scott Walker. Graywolf was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1984, and then later in 1985, thanks in part to generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and from local philanthropic organizations, they moved to Minnesota (Graywolf Press).
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