Arrondissements: Poems (Signed First Edition)

Daryl Hine

ISBN 10: 0889841306 / ISBN 13: 9780889841307

Published by The Porcupine's Quill / University of Toronto Press, Ontario, 1989

About this Item

First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Short closed tear on front jacket cover and another on rear cover (as picture), protected by mylar. Light wear on jacket spine and extremities. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. Beautifully illustrated. This copy has been SIGNED and warmly inscribed by Hine to McClatchy on the half-title page (as pictured).

Seller Inventory # McClatchy-466

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arrondissements: Poems (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill / University of Toronto Press, Ontario
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889841306
• ISBN 13: 9780889841307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Association Copies
  • Poetry
  • Signed Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Daryl Hine, a Canadian poet who has travelled widely, frequently records in his verse the quality of this travelling and the characteristics of the places he has visited. None of these places has he described more precisely and more poignantly than Paris, where he lived for several years as a young man. Arrondissements is the most complete of his comments on the French capital. At once a dream-promenade, an erotic tale, and a meditation on beauty's many forms, this brilliant suite of poems evokes a great city, quartier by quartier, and once again demonstrates the mastery of the poet who devised it.

About the Author

Daryl Hine was born in 1936 in British Columbia. He read Classics and Philosophy at McGill University before going, with the aid of several grants, to live in Paris. In 1962 he went to the United States and in 1967 took a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, where he subsequently taught. He later gave courses at Northwestern University and at the University of Illinois (Chicago). From 1968 to 1978 he edited Poetry magazine. He has published ten collections of