The Green Wall

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.

Price: $400.00

Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel, a little rubbing, and the slightest of tanning to the spine-lettering. The poet's first book. A very nice copy.

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Item #99328 The Green Wall. James WRIGHT.
The Green Wall

James Wright
birth name: James Wright
born: 12/13/1927
died: 3/25/1980

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American poet of the postmodern era who wrote about sorrow, salvation, and self-revelation, often drawing on his native Ohio River valley for images of nature and industry. In 1972 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems (1971). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore