C W Truesdale The Loss of Rivers 1967 Signed Ivan V Lalic
C. W. Truesdale THE LOSS RIVERS Azazel Books, Denver, 1967. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Size: 21,4 x 13,7 cm. Pp. 59. Book design by Keith A. Henriques. Jacket line drawings by Lucas Johnson. The copy is signed and inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic. The copy is clean and fine; minor spot on the cover. For condition and details see scans.
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Calvin William Truesdale (Bill) was born in 1930. He was an American poet and helped transform the Twin Cities into a national center of nonprofit publishing. As founder and longtime editor of Minnesota’s oldest nonprofit publisher, New Rivers Press, Truesdale was known as a risk-taking champion of new and regional voices. He helped to launch literary stars such as poet Charles Simic, former Minnesotans David Haynes and Charles Baxter, and scores of other writers. Truesdale’s poetry is characterized by a distinct, deep and intelligent observation of the surrounding space and man’s inner world. 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.