Music from Home is a substantial selec tion of the poetry of Colleen McElroy. Her poetry sings her gentleness, hu mor, sorrow and pain, and, above all, love. She is a remarkably flexible and gifted contemporary American poet whose poetry reflects her era. It sets down the essentials memorably, with wisdom as well as emotion.
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Music from Home is a substantial selec tion of the poetry of Colleen McElroy. Her poetry sings her gentleness, hu mor, sorrow and pain, and, above all, love. She is a remarkably flexible and gifted contemporary American poet whose poetry reflects her era. It sets down the essentials memorably, with wisdom as well as emotion.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Inscribed by McElroy on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xvii, 100pp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Preface by John Gardner. Introduction by Knute Skinner. Very good with owner's name in crayon on front fly, spine slightly cocked in a very good dustwrapper with three inch closed tear on rear panel. African-American poet's second collection. First volume in the "Sagittarius Poetry Series."
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Fine book in a fine dust jacket. 100 pages First edition, first printing. Her second book of poetry. First in the Sagittarius Poetry Series. Preface by John Gardner. Introduction by Knute Skinner. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. The second collection by this African-American poet and the first book in the Sagittarius Poetry Series, which was designed to publish "outstanding but commercially 'awkward' volumes" of poetry. Warmly inscribed by the author to another poet and his wife in 1977. Fine in a spine-and edge-sunned, near fine dust jacket. Preface by John Gardner. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Preface by John Gardner. Introduction by Knute Skinner. Octavo. 100pp. White cloth. Top edge is lightly foxed else fine in fine, bright dust jacket. Second collection of poetry by this African-American poet. Signed by novelist John Gardner, who wrote the preface, and scarce thus. Issued in the Sagittarius Poetry Series.