KARL SHAPIRO SIGNED POETRY HC PULITZER PRIZE POET LAUREATE POEMS 1940-53 3rd PR

Description: POEMS1940-1953by Karl Shapiro Published by Random House NY, 1953. First Edition, stated Third Printing. Presentation copy signed & inscribed by poet Karl Shapiro on ffep. Good hardcover, in acceptable dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some notes/underlining, previous owner’s bookplate to front endpaper and blindstamp to page 81, tears & chips to dj, repaired with archival tape, now in archival mylar wrapper. 8vo, 161 pages. Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. His poetry received early recognition, winning a number of major poetry awards in the 1940s, including the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Contemporary Poetry Prize. He served as poet laureate from 1946 to 1947. Loc: GL2-1StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackKARL SHAPIRO SIGNED POETRY HC PULITZER PRIZE POET LAUREATE POEMS 1940-53 3rd PR POEMS1940-1953by Karl Shapiro Published by Random House NY, 1953. First Edition, stated Third Printing. Presentation copy signed & inscribed by poet Karl Shapiro on ffep. Good hardcover, in acceptable dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, some notes/underlining, previous owner’s bookplate to front endpaper and blindstamp to page 81, tears & chips to dj, repaired with archival tape, now in archival mylar wrapper. 8vo, 161 pages. Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. His poetry received early recognition, winning a number of major poetry awards in the 1940s, including the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Contemporary Poetry Prize. He served as poet laureate from 1946 to 1947. Loc: GL2-1

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