The Devil's Child (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Jackson, Fleda Brown - 1999

Carnegie Mellon, 1999. 79 pages. Paperback. New/No Dustjacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, 1998-07. Paperback. Good.

Pennsylvania: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999. paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Inscribed and Signed by Author. Inscribed and Signed by Author. “This dark, ambitious narrative full of voices, echoes and whispers of anguish is deftly plotted and carefully crafted. Here is a challenging poetry of action and remembrance and the sheer, downright, daily human grotesque. But it is also a poetic sequence that does something altogether more difficult: it holds our interest and its own lyric balance at one and the same time. It compels the sort of music from pain which is hard to forget.” (Eavan Boland). FLEDA BROWN JACKSON’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals. Her first collection of poems, Fishing With Blood (Purdue University Press, 1988), won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Her second collection, Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue University Press,… Read More

Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 79pp. Glossy wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Poetry.

[Pittsburgh]: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Glossy wrappers. A faint crease to the front wrapper, light toning, else very near fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A narrative told through poems in the voices of three characters snowed in at a church.

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999. First edition. Softcover. 79 pages. A paperback original collection of poems by Jackson and includes a foreword by W. D. Snodgrass. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Jackson on the title page and additionally signed and very warmly inscribed by Jackson on the half title page to the poet Linda Pastan in the year of publication. Uncommon signed.

Carnegie Mellon University Press. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!