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Verlag: The Press of James A. Decker, Prairie City, Illinois, 1942
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Swallow. Tall octavo. 133, [20] pp. Light wear at the corners and spine ends, titling a bit dulled, near fine. Owner signature of Edward Hart, who is not a contributor but cited in the "Honor Roll of Poets," listing poems published in 1942 (citing his poem "Holiday," which appeared the *Rocky Mountain Review*). Hart was a Rhodes Scholar and professor of English at BYU. Prints the first book appearance of poems by John Berryman ("The Spinning Heart"); Theodore Roethke ("City Limits"); Randall Jarrell ("The Iceberg" and "January 1938'); Weldon Kees ("Henry James at Newport"); Stanley J. Kunitz ("The Tutored Child"); Eve Merriam, Howard Moss, Muriel Rukeyser, Ann Stanford, Alan Swallow, John Ciardi, Kenneth Fearing, and Yvor Winters. A few poems and short stories are reprints, including a poem by Robinson Jeffers ("My Dear Love," which was included in 'Be Angry at the Sun' published in same year) and Robert Penn Warren ("Terror") and two poems by Josephine Miles. Also reprints short stories by Robert Penn Warren ("Goodwood Comes Back"), and Eudora Welty ("A Visit of Charity" from *A Curtain of Green*). An uncommon anthology of writing in this 1942 issue, the only issue published by The Press of James A. Decker. The final two years, 1943 and 1944, were published by Bruce Humphries.