Introduced by James Merrill. With an afterword by Guiseppe Mazzotta. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Edition limited to 145 copies, this being one of 125 numbered copies signed by all the poets; folio, pp. xiii, [1], 199, [2]; title-p. printed in red and black; original black morocco-backed red linen, gilt lettering direct on spine.
This copy out of series, however, with no number, no signed frontispiece by Francesco Clemente, no publisher's box, and the endpaper never laid down, but with all the required signatures on the colophon: Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, W. S. Merwin, Amy Clampitt, Mark Strand, Robert Pinsky, Galway Kinnell, Cynthia Macdonald, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Susan Mitchell, Carolyn Forche, Alfred Corn, Sharon Olds, Deborah Digges, Robert Hass, James Merrill, and Daniel Halpern. Beautifully printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler on Rives heavyweight paper after a design by Peter A. Andersen, and bound by Claudia Cohen.
Donated by Rulon~Miller Books, St. Paul, MN.