Envoy – Number 51

New York: The Academy of American Poets, 1988.

Price: $45.00

Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 8pp. Stapled self-wrappers. Faint horizontal crease from being folded, near fine. Much of the issue (five pages) is devoted to James Merrill, printing his remarks before The Academy of American Poets at their "Annual 'Education of the Poet' lecture," and printing five poems by Merrill. Contains a previously unpublished Marianne Moore letter, reproduced in typescript facsimile, welcoming poet Giuseppe Ungaretti to the United States in 1964. Also prints Amy Clampitt's remarks while introducing Seamus Heaney, on March 3, 1987, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in its "Education of the Poet" series.

Item #517389

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Item #517389 Envoy – Number 51. Seamus HEANEY, Marianne Moore, James Merrill, Amy Clampitt.