Selected Poetry by MacDiarmid, Hugh; Riach, Alan; Grieve, Michael - 1993

New Directions, 1993-09. Hardcover. Good.

New Directions, 1993-09-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

New York: New Directions, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo, 289 pp. Top edge foxed.

London: Macmillan, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Introduction by Eliot Weinberger. Octavo. 289pp. Foxing on page edges, near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1993. 269 pp. collection of poetry by the Scottish poet. Tight, clean copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New Directions, 1993. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 289 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches.

New York: New Directions, 1993. Hardcover. NF/NF but art school ex-lib. with usual marks.. Blue cloth/boards; silver lettering. Palest green dj with black line drawing; blue/black lettering. Mylar cover. xxv, [3], 289 pp. with no illus. Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry… Read More

New Directions, 1993-09-17. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!