Between the Covers

Softcover. Offprint. Slim octavo. p. 272-279. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers a bit rubbed and with a couple of staple shadows, near fine. Inscribed by Mezey on the cover: "For [name marked over]— with affection and vanity, Bob Mezey." Mezey's first book, an offprint from *Botteghe Oscure* No. 20. Mezey has been awarded the Lamont Poetry Prize (for *The Lovemaker*, 1961), the Robert Frost Prize, the PEN Prize, an honorary doctorate from the World Congress of Poets, and the 2002 Poet's Prize. He was also co-editor, with Stephen Berg, of the important 1969 anthology *Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry in New Forms*. *Botteghe Oscure* published 25 issues and a few offprints between 1948 and 1960. *OCLC* locates a single copy of this offprint at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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