Arthur Gregor Selected Poems 1971 Signed Lalic First Ed
Arthur Gregor SELECTED POEMS Doubleday, New York, 1971. First edition. Hardcover in fine condition, no dust jacket. Size: 21,3 x 14,2 cm. Pp. 239. The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic: ‘’To ivan Lalic / with (…) appreciation / to his work – / Arthur Gregor ‘’. The book contains two sheets of A 4 format with the title ‘News from DOUBLEDAY’ which contains comments on the respective writers on the subject of Gregor’s poetry. At the end of the act, is the date ‘August 1971’. Also, there is a small leaf in the form of certificate of publishing house that issued Gregor’s book Selected Poems. For condition see photos/scans.
***
Arthur Gregor (1923 – ) is an Austrian-born American children’s writer, editor, and poet. Gregor was 15 when he fled with his family to the United States at the outbreak of World War II, eventually settling in New York. During the 1960s, he joined the English faculty at Hofstra University, where he set up Creative Writing and Publishing Studies programs and was, for seven years before his retirement in 1995, Poet-in-Residence. Since his first appearance in Poetry in 1947, for which he was awarded the magazine’s First Appearance Prize, his poems have been published widely in most of the leading outlets for poetry. Gregor is primarily known as a mystical, introspective poet. In his poetry is noted interest in Zen and Indian mysticism. He writes with high moral earnestness, but it is obviousand his egoism, so he had a phrase ‘the cult of the personal life’.
***
Ivan V. Lalic (1931 – 1996) was one of the most significant Serbian poets writing after World War II with a reputation as one of the finest European poets of his time. Also one of the leading poets of contemporary neosymbolism poetry in Serbia. He had also been writing essays and literary critics and versifying English and French poetry into Serbian language. Lalic edited few antologies of poetry. He was sincerly appreciated among colleague poets of his time all over the world as it can be seen in many inscriptions wrote to him on books he received as sign of respect and appreciation.
***
Worldwide shipping and handling charges for this item $ 12. Buyers from US pays $ 12. Domestic shipping $ 4 refers to Serbia only.
