Daniel Halpern American Poetry Anthology Signed 1975 Literature US
Daniel Halpern THE AMERICAN POETRY ANTHOLOGY Avon Books, New York, 1975. First edition. Softcover, very good condition (edges a little yellowed, first pages are a little beyond the binding ). Size: 20,2 x 13,2 cm. Pp. XXXIII, 506. Edited by Daniel Halpern. With work by AI, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Louise Gluck, Jim Harrison, Carol Muske, Stanley Plumly, Charles Simic, James Tate, Diane Wakoski, Alice Walker, James Welch and many other. The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic: ‘’for Ivan / Reserved, thi / time, for real. / Under good / wine, / & the / promise of / love. / Daniel Halpern / Reserved / for Mr. I. Lalic’’. For condition see photos/scans.
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Daniel Halpern (born in New York in 1945) is american author of seven previous collections of poems; also, he is editorial director of The Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. Halpern has received many grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry is characterized by its simplicity and the topic of his poems is everyday life, what surrounds every man: nature, friends, commitments, feelings …
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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.
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