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Thanatopsis / Herbert Cahoon.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1572
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cahoon, Herbert, 1918-2000, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Private press books.
- Vermont.
- Genre:
- American poetry.
- Private press books
- Private press books (Printing)
- Kelmscott hammer (Paper).
- Anvil (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 25, [1] pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Printed at the Banyan Press for the Tiger's Eye, 1949.
- Contents:
- First poems
- Now
- Exile
- Sweet death
- Wheels
- Like the beginning of death
- Today or tomorrow
- The wreck
- 'The precious images exceed ... '
- The knoll and the grove
- Winter scene
- Night Scene
- 'The trees bent over the road ... '
- The helmet of Hades
- Song
- On a twenty-fifth birthday
- The scenes of earth
- Portunus
- To L.W.H. on his forty-third birthday
- Thanatopsis.
- Notes:
- "Some of these poems have appeared in The American Poet, Briarcliff Quarterly, Furioso, Here and Now (Toronto), The University of Kansas City Review, and Voices"--Colophon
- "This book was printed by Milton Saul & Claude Fredericks at The Banyan Press, in Pawlett Vermont, during March 1949, from handset type on Kemscott Hammer & Anvil. There are 200 numbered & six lettered copies"--Colophon
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has number 46. In protective wrapper. card with poem by author laid in.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has 2 inscriptions. First: "For John Gorden with the best wishes of Herbert Cahoon. May 12, 1949". Second: "A new inscription for Jean-François on May 2, 1996. With more best wishes from Herbert Cahoon."
- OCLC:
- 1361155
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