New Young German Poets.
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used




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San Francisco: City Lights Books. 1959. Small 4to. Original navy and white printed wrappers, lettered 'Second Printing' and priced $1-00 to rear wrapper; pp. 63, [1]; wrappers slightly toned, otherwise a very good copy; signed 'Ferlinghetti, editor' in black ink to title-page.First edition, second printing, of this anthology of avant-garde German poetry including contributions by Ingeborg Bachmann, Gunter Grass, Paul Celan, and Helmut Heissenbuttel, this copy signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher and director of the Pocket Poets series.A series of translations, New Young German Poets was Jerome Rothenberg's first published book, no. 11 in the Pocket Poets Series, founded by Ferlinghetti in summer 1955. In 1959, Rothenberg established The Hawks Well Press, which published his own first collection of poetry, White Sun Black Sun.Cook 11.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- New Young German Poets.
- Author
- ROTHENBERG, Jerome (editor and translator); [Lawrence FERLINGHETTI].
- Publication year
- 1959
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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