The Ark River Review. (Volume 2, Number 3) Special 3—Poet Issue, Featuring Albert Goldbarth, Michael Ryan, and James Tate

Wichita, KS: Mercury Press, 1973. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps. 52 pp. Early work by all three poets with Midwestern roots (Kansas, Missiouri, Illinois), including interesting biographical sketches. Ryan’s book, Threats Instead of Trees, was selected the following year by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Goldbarth had, by 1975, published two chapbooks of poetry and won the Poetry Northwest Theodore Roethke Prize; and Tate had already published four books of poetry by 1973, including The Lost Pilot (1967), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Item #171

Price: $40.00