Association copy of this first trade edition from the noted experimental poet — warmly inscribed to fellow poet Ron Silliman.
Very good plus.
Price: $150.00
"[Larry Eigner's] poems are as contained & formally balanced as any written over the past 50 years." — Ron Silliman
"When I started gathering poetry for a journal that would become TOTTEL'S in 1969, [Eigner] was one of the first writers whose work I solicited," Ron Silliman would write of his friend Larry Eigner. Silliman would go on to include Eigner in his groundbreaking anthology IN THE AMERICAN TREE, and dedicated one of his best-known poems, "For Larry Eigner, Silent" — which first appeared in 2002's BEST AMERICAN POETRY (and was later included in THE ALPHABET) — to the poet. Upon its publication in 2010, Silliman would call THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LARRY EIGNER "the most powerful & substantial book of this millennium." A stupendous association between these two giants of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
Read more: Silliman's Blog, November 14, 2002 and March 18, 2010.
First printing. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. 9'' x 5.75''. Publisher's original color printed wrappers. 168 pages. Inscribed by Eigner in pencil (as was his habit) on the blank page before the title page: "For Ron Silliman / April 7 '83 / Larry / Back in / Berkeley / Hello." Minor soil, foxing to wrappers. Touches of shelfwear. Else clean and sound.
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