SOME SMALL POEMS. [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION].

Narrow octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stitched cream wrappers with a black & cream illustration on the front cover. 25 pages plus the colophon. Fine. RARE.The colophon reads: "Limited edition of 50 copies all of which are numbered and signed by the author." This copy is signed by the poet on the title page. It is unnumbered.Included in this collection is her signature poem, "in time I'll do what / I would do now if / there weren't perfection / to consider".A publisher's note below the colophon states that this is "An EVENT book. Special edition chapbook of the author's reading at Brillig Works Cafe. Boulder, Colorado October 12, 1994".The poet and monologist Bobbie Louise Hawkins (1930-2018) was born in Abilene Texas. She moved to England with her first husband Olaf Hoek, a Danish architect. She studied art at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. Her second husband, the poet Robert Creeley, derided her attempts to write poetry. She is quoted as saying "I was fighting for the right to write badly until I got better." In 1978 she was hired by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman to teach writing at the Naropa Institute.

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Publisher: Boulder, CO: Rodent Press, October 12, 1994.

Year: October 12, 1994.

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Signed

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