Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman: "for Dan, in admiration of your work best, Charlie. C.K. Williams." Hoffman's first collection of poems, *An Armada of Thirty Whales* (1954), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.H. Auden. In addition to publishing several other volumes of poetry and important works of criticism, he also later served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974.

Item #417874
ISBN: 039525342X