Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 269pp. Top corners of boards and crown bumped else fine in modestly worn, very good or better dust jacket with corresponding bumping that has caused a tiny tear at the top of the lower fold. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice's copy, Signed by Haines on the title page and with a TLS to Justice laid in, sending the book along. Haines writes that he was visiting poet Dana Gioia and, while there, read an interview with Justice in *The American Poetry Review* and was impressed by it, especially Justice's remarks on there being too many writing programs, "a view not normally expressed publically [sic] by anyone closely connected to one of the more prominent programs." Haines also sends along a copy of a letter he sent to *The Hudson Review* the year before, regarding the "institutional character" of creative writing programs. A nice association with interesting additional content.

Item #590307
ISBN: 1555972276