Venus's slipper: flower sonnets & new poems [with] Dreamhead letters and new poems
by McGaugh, Lawrence
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About This Item
[Berkeley?]: Self-published by the author, no date. MANUSCRIPT. [46p] 8.5x11 inches, printed recto-only, the "Dreamhead" section begins about halfway through. More poems on three extra sheets laid-in, very good manuscript in red vinyl spiral-bound wraps. Bay Area African American poet. He earned a BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971, taught fine arts at several institutions around the Bay Area, and served a commissioner on the Berkeley Civic Art Commission, 1976-1979. He died in 2006 while living in Berkeley. Venus's Slipper was never published (2 sonnets from the collection were published separately in 1989 by Oyez). Dreamhead Letters may not have been published though there was a 1983 book entitled Dreamheads.
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 207668
- Title
- Venus's slipper: flower sonnets & new poems [with] Dreamhead letters and new poems
- Author
- McGaugh, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- MANUSCRIPT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Self-published by the author
- Place of Publication
- [Berkeley?]
- Date Published
- no date
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Poetry; Berkeley; California; Manuscript;
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