Book by Layton, Irving

Used book in good condition, due to its age it could contain normal signs of use

First edition hard cover. From the collection of Nina Carroll (Steane) and John Steane, John being the former county archaeologist for Oxfordshire, a founder member of the Oxford Buildings Record and the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust. Gift dedication and signature from author on FEP and correspondence between Nina Carroll and Gerda Meyer laid in. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light wear to jacket, corners bumped, and pageblock tanned. Within, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Danish

"It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new book she has reached down to a deeper layer and is letting the darkness in." —May Sarton

Autobiographical Stanzas: Someone's Narrative

"Sixty copies, hand set and printed by Toni Savage."

The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the surreal--yet one hears in his verse classical and Biblical echoes and, on occasion, darker medieval undertones. The brilliance of his imagination works against a measured eloquence, setting up a fine-edged tension not unlike the prophetic verse of William Blake, the wild dithyrambs of David, or the more controlled metrics of Catullus and Villon.