Mortal Acts, Mortal Words
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First paperback printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 71pp. Octavo [21cm]; perfect-bound in the original printed wraps. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page (to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector): "for ______ | Galway Kinnell | Port Townsend | July 17, 1980." Previous owner's name in ink on the half-title page (the same person the author inscribed the book to). Light shelfwear. Spine is sunfaded. Otherwise a nice, clean copy. Very Good +. Item #71231
ISBN: 0395291267
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and civil rights activist. He was born in Rhode Island and served as a professor at New York University. His 1982 Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.
Price: $35.00