POEMS OF PLACES AND PEOPLE.
by BARKER, George (George Granville), 1913-1991 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. Twenty-two poems and the poem sequence "Venusberg", dedicated to Graham Greene - the poems mainly in remembrance of people - T. S. Eliot (who called Barker a genius - a view both shared and disputed by others), Herbert Read, Vernon Watkins, etc. - and specific places - Kew Gardens, Norfolk, Surrey, etc. Brought up in Battersea, Barker is variously remembered as the man who inspired Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept", drinking chum of Dylan Thomas, collaborator in writing pornography with Anaïs Nin, and as the father of fifteen children by four different women born over a period of forty years. Demy 8vo (23cm). 80pp. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt; a very good, bright, clean and sound copy in the dust-jacket - the jacket equally very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44988
- Title
- POEMS OF PLACES AND PEOPLE.
- Author
- BARKER, George (George Granville), 1913-1991 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Faber & Faber, (1971).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Poetry
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