POEMS OF A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE; Translated & with an introduction, by William Jay Smith.
[NY]: Bonacio & Saul and Grove Press, (1955). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 72. A very good tight copy in dj. Designed and printed at the Caliban Press. Signed by William Jay Smith. Item #51227
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 Vichy – 2 February 1957 Vichy) was a French writer. 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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