Throw Out the Life Line, Lay Out the Corse: Poems, 1965-1985 [SIGNED copy]

Asa Benveniste

ISBN 10: 0856460982 / ISBN 13: 9780856460982

Published by Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1983

About this Item

142pp. Fine condition. Collection of poetry in five sections. Light blue thin card covers with white and black lettering on face and spine. Purple end pages. Author's signature on title page. No other inscriptions. Tightly bound. Single spot on top page edge. Tiny purple print ink spots on inside rear cover. Appears 'as new' and unread.

Seller Inventory # 009188

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Throw Out the Life Line, Lay Out the Corse: Poems, 1965-1985 [SIGNED copy]
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, London
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856460982
• ISBN 13: 9780856460982
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Asa Benveniste’s most extensive collection of poems draws from his earlier books and from his previously unpublished work, with a nod (as the subtitle implies) in the direction of poems yet to be written. Lyrical, surrealistic, serious and funny, his poems encompass the mysteries of Kabbalah and of domestic life, the latter – he writes – lending itself easily to a complex comedy of language.

About the Author

Asa Benveniste was born in New York in 1925. Since settling in England in the 1950s, he worked as printer, typographer, book designer and as publisher of Trigram Press, one of the most influential small presses of recent years. He lectured on typography, design, poetry ‘and other idiocies of structure’. He lived in London, Norfolk and latterly in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He died in 1990.