The Best Hour of the Night. Poems
New Haven & New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine copy in lightly rubbed very good dustwrapper, with a bit of wear at the head of spine and a small puncture on the front panel. Inscribed by the poet to his son: "For Tony, one of my best readers, with love, Dad, Christmas '83."
Item #310878
ISBN: 9780899192031
Louis Simpson
birth name: Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
born: 3/27/1923
died: 09/14/2012
Biography
Jamaican-born American poet and critic, notable for his marked development in poetic style. In 1964 he won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his volume At The End of the Open Road, Poems (1963) - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore