A KIND OF GLORY

Shelton, Richard [b. 1933]

Published by Copper Canyon Press, Fort Warden, Port Townsend, WA, 1982

About this Item

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR beneath the colophon. Narrow 4to. (30 cm.) unpaged [26p.]. Sewn booklet in tan wrappers printed in black on the front cover and the spine. Deckle edge pages and deckle edge wrappers. Running head with title of poem at the top of the page. Colophon reads as follows: " This edition of two hundred and eighty copies was designed and printed around the autumnal equinox by Tree Swenson. The Centaur text type, designed by Bruce Rogers, was based on the 1470 Venetian roman of Nicolaus Jenson. The Arrighi italic of Frederic Warde accompanies. Ingres Antique text sheets are bound by Marsha Hollingsworth into handmade Diana cover from J. Green. Each copy is signed by the poet." Just hints of wear to extremities, wrappers clean and bright, corners square and flat, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Born in Boise, Idaho in 1933, Richard Shelton is an Arizona writer, poet and emeritus Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Shelton is an award winning poet who has written nine books of poetry, as well as several other prose pieces. The lyrics of the namesake poem: "years after the neighbors/ started using machines/Grandpa still did the milking/with his small-boned/delicate hands/but his cows gave better milk/than any herd in the valley | at night he danced the Schottische/with Grandma and always/put his little foot right there/more gracefully than she could manage | he smelled of cow manure/and Prince Albert pipe tobacco/women found him irresistible | we knew we would never be famous/or anything out of the ordinary/but for a while after Grandpa/dropped his flashlight/into the outhouse hole we had/a kind of glory | it continued to shine/straight up from down there/and or most private moments/were illuminated" A finely printed, handsomely produced volume of poetry that has the flavor of the West. Seller Inventory # 009322

Bibliographic Details

Title: A KIND OF GLORY

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, Fort Warden, Port Townsend, WA

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition