A GREEN PLACE; modern poems compiled by ... illustrated by Jacques Hnizdovsky
NY: Delacorte Press, (1982). Jacques Hnizdovsky. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 225. A near fine copy in nicked and little worn dj. Signed by the author. Item #51216
ISBN: 089255049X
William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana. He was brought up at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, south of St. Louis. Smith received his A.B. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, and continued his studies at Columbia University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Smith is the author of ten collections of poetry of which two were finalists for the National Book Award. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
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