The Calling Across Forever
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. 56pp. Small quarto [23.5cm]; perfect-bound and sewn in slate blue illustrated wrappers. Dark navy blue endpapers. Previous owner's name (a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector) written neatly in ink on the front flyleaf. The spine is sunfaded, else a nice and clean copy. Near Fine. Item #71016
ISBN: 091474223X
The colophon reads: "1500 copies, designed by Sam Hamill and Tree Swenson and printed for Copper Canyon Press by John Laursen at Press-22 in Portland, have been sewn into wrappers. The text is Sonata, with Linweave Early American cover. The type is Journal Roman with Baskerville italic display. The illustration is by Tree Swenson, after Hokusai."
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: $25.00