TURTLE ISLAND
by Snyder, Gary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket./navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine
- ISBN 10
- 0811205460
- ISBN 13
- 9780811205467
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: New Directions,, (c. 1974.). SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.. Later printing. Woodcut illustrations by Michael Corr. Winner of the Putitzer Prize for poetry - according to Snyder because it was "the only book that was quite that gutsy ..jumping-in-with-all-fours, taking a stand on things." Snyder explains in his introductory note that 'Turtle Island - the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millenia, and reapplied by some of the them to 'North America' in recent years.' SIGNED on the title page. A copy which was printed on demand. 114 pp.
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- Title
- TURTLE ISLAND
- Author
- Snyder, Gary
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811205460
- ISBN 13
- 9780811205467
- Publisher
- New Directions,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (c. 1974.)
- Keywords
- pulitzer prize,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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