Dead Letter
[Seattle, WA]: Jawbone Press, 1978. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED by the author in black ink on the title page. [16]pp. 32mo [12.5cm]; string-sewn in original letterpress printed wraps. Previous owner's name (a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector) written neatly in black ink on the front flyleaf. Just a touch of sunning at the spine and top edge. Near Fine. Item #70905
A nice little letterpress chapbook. American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943–2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Price: $50.00