(ASSOCIATION COPY) Sleeping with One Eye Open

Association Copy of the Author’s First Published Book of Poems. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page, “for Willis | now I’ve learned to sleep | with both eyes open, I hope. | Mark Strand 1972”. Printed by KK Merker from Romanee type on Curtis Rag paper. This is number 116 of 225 copies. Very Good+. Octavo. Cloth-bound with a sunned spine, but gilt lettering still legible. Mark Strand won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999, a prize for which Barnstone was nominated on four occasions, but never won. Their friendship and admiration for one another spanned through the decades.