Reading Seferis: A Poem
[Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1979. First edition. Limited edition of 200 copies. Paperback. SIGNED with a brief inscription and an illustration by the author in black ink on the half-title page. The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector ("For ______ — | [illustration of a wandering flute player underneath a sun and birds] | Sam"). [16]pp. 12mo [18cm]; string-sewn in original light blue letterpress printed wrappers. Some sunfading around the edges of the covers, otherwise a clean and sharp copy. Near Fine. Item #70908
A lovely single-poem letterpress chapbook. The colophon states: "This pamphlet was printed in an edition of 200 copies on Frankfurt paper with Strathmore Rhododendron covers. The type, which was set by hand, is Palatino, designed by Herman Zapf." 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. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.
Price: $50.00