CAN POETRY MATTER?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture Inscribed

by Dana Gioia

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed to a fellow poet associated with New Formalism. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 257pp. Trifle rubbed on bottom board edges, else Near Fine, in original dustwrapper, also Near Fine.A now classic collection of essays and reviews published after his 1991 title essay in The Atlantic caused a storm of

• Printing: first

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