Awake
Brockport, New York: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1990. First Edition.
INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Norman -- / Stay Awake! / Dorianne Laux." The first book of poems by Dorianne Laux (b. 1952). Awake was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Critics Award for Poetry. Foreword by Philip Levine, cover photo of a Nova Scotia interior by Walker Evans. Laux's book, Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2020. SCARCE SIGNED.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 x 6 inches; 228 x 150 mm), 63, [1] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Old price sticker to rear wrapper and light edge wear but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better. Item #2664
ISBN: 0918526779
Price: $75.00