BERLIN; The City and the Court, translated with an introduction by William Jay Smith, photographs by Simone Sassen
NY: Turtle Point Press, (1996). Simone Sassen. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 220. Bound in illustrated paper wraps, a fine copy signed by the translator. Item #51256
ISBN: 1885983026
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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