Signed first printing with interesting provenance of this important Native American writer's first book, a collection of poetry.
Very good.
Price: $850.00
This copy was almost certainly signed at the 1975 National Poetry Festival sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson College. Participants that year (which was held July 9-19, 1975) included Carol Berge, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, Kathleen Frazer, Nikki Giovanni, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, Ishmael Reed, Charles Simic, James Welch — as well as the poet James Wright, whose personal handler at that year's festival (Jeanne Hill) has her name, address, and phone number are penned in an unknown hand to the final page of this copy. Silko, who attended the festival, would later say of Wright: "His poetry had a profound effect on the work of all of us at the conference" (quoted in Blunk). An intriguing copy of an important debut.
Read more: Jonathan Blunk, James Wright: A Life in Poetry, page 309.
Greenfield Center,NY: The Greenfield Review Press, (1974). Original stapled printed pictorial wraps. 36 pages. Cover/title page image and one preliminary illustration by Silko, remainder by Aaron Yava. Signed and dated in green ink by Silko above her illustration page following the table of contents: "Leslie Silko / 19 July 1975." Some spots of soil to covers. Touch of toning internally.
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