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Birth of a poet : the Santa Cruz meditations / William Everson ; edited by Lee Bartlett.

Accession number
PML 176689
Creator
Everson, William, 1912-1994, author.
Published
Santa Barbara, California : Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"Printed March 1982 in Santa Barbara and Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press by Graham Mackintosh & Edwards Brothers, Inc. Design by Barbara Martin. This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 75 hardcover trade copies; 250 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; there are 50 copies hardbound in boards by Earle Gray, each containing a holograph poem by William Everson"--Colophon.
Library's copy is presentation copy 1/2.
Description
ix, 197 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on page iii: "Escape all the pitfalls - as infant, or child, or adolescent - sooner or later a trauma awaits you. That'll make you cry! William Everson"; author's signature in ink below colophon as issued; inscription in unknown hand in red ink below colophon: "Presentation Copy 1/2."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Blue decorated boards backed in patterned cloth.
Classification
Department