Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. viii, 62 pp. Fine book and dj, but that someone has written 'London' on the fore-edge. Baumel's poems have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Reivew, The Harvard Advocate, Boulevard, The Denver Quarterly, Gradiva, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Pequod, Ploughshares, and Prometheus. 'They were decisive icy fingers / of geology class brought home, stretching / into the parkway.'--from Roches Moutonnees. 1987 recipient of the Walt Whitman Award from the American Academy of Poets. Baumel has been director of the Poetry Society of America, she won a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been a lecturer at Harvard University, Boston University, and City College of New York. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Veery Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 000409
Title: The Weight of Numbers
Author: Buamel, Judith
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0819521442
ISBN 13: 9780819521446
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication: Middletown, Connecticut
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: poetry
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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