Halvard Johnson Dance of Red Swan 1971 Signed Lalic
Halvard Johnson THE DANCE OF THE RED SWAN New Rivers Press, New York, 1971. First edition. Hardcover in a dust jacket (edges a little rubbed). A fine copy. Size: 21 x 14,1 cm. Pp. 88,2 + 2l blank. 10 drawings. Design by Marty Bernstein. The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic: ‘’For Ivan & Brance / with much love and many lovely / memories of Beograd by winter / & Rovinj by summer – both / away the warmest of places. / Hal / … / 1 Feb. 1974 ‘’. For condition see photos/scans.
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Halvard Johnson (born 1936, New York) is a poet, writer/teacher. He has received grants in poetry and fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and Baltimore City Arts. Johnson has had several residency grants at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a poetry fellowship at the Ragdale Foundation. Johnson’s poems bear the fascinating pictures and vibrations. The poet managed to produce that their explosive expressionism give the effect of peace and tranquility.
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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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