Brewer kenneth w (8 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Trade Paperback Edition. [104pp.] Octavo [21.5 cm.] White illustrated wrappers with titles printed in black on front panel and backstrip. This collection of poems was penned as the author was battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of the first order, and an incredible individual, Ken Brewer will be greatly missed by all those who were familiar with the man, and his work. Kenneth W. Brewer (1941-2006) was the Utah Poet Laureate, and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer has had several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews over the last thirty plus years. "I keep hearing that poetry is dead in this country, but I refuse to believe that. When we must confront immediate crises, we seldom write novels or short stories; we write poems, or we sing, or we pray. Upon being told my life was about to end, I wrote the first poem as if it were a boat of words launched toward places I have never been.".…

Paperback. Condizione: As NEW. First edition. 179 pp. By Utah's acclaimed Poet Laureate. A compilation of the late poet's work over the past three decades. Ken Brewer, 1941-2006, has selected the poems from early works such as Collected Poems of Mongrel, Remember What Is Lost, The Place In Between and other compilations.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Signed.

Hardcover. First Edition. [104pp.] Octavo [21.5 cm.] Maroon cloth backstrip and boards with silver lettering. Fine. This collection of poems was penned as the author was battling cancer in his Cache Valley home. A poet of the first order, and an incredible individual, Ken Brewer will be greatly missed by all those who were familiar with the man and his work. Kenneth W. Brewer (1941-2006) was the Utah Poet Laureate, and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer had several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews over the last thirty plus years. "I keep hearing that poetry is dead in this country, but I refuse to believe that. When we must confront immediate crises, we seldom write novels or short stories; we write poems, or we sing, or we pray. Upon being told my life was about to end, I wrote the first poem as if it were a boat of words launched toward places I have never been.".…

No Binding. Condizione: VG. A VGF or better 4-page pressbook. Book.

Paperback. First edition, 1/300. 20 pp. Octavo. Red handmade string bound wrappers with decorative end sheets. Letter press edition. 20 poems by former Utah poet laureate, Ken Brewer, who died in the spring of 2006 after a lengthy battle with cancer in his Cache Valley home. With 20 woodcut prints by noted Utah artist Royden Card. Another beautiful volume of poetry from this acclaimed publisher. Limberlost press is a fine press and bindery in Boise, Idaho. Since 1986 they have issued forty-five completely handmade letterpress editions. Royden Card (illustratore).…

Paperback. Trade edition. SIGNED. 38pp. Thin quarto [28 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The wraps are very lightly soiled. There are a couple of small light moisture stains on the top edge of the front wrap. Signed by Brewer on the title page. Kenneth W. Brewer was the Utah Poet Laureate, and a retired professor of English. Mr. Brewer has had several volumes of poetry published, as well as hundreds of poems appearing in literary journals and reviews over the last thirty plus years.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As NEW. Limited Edition. SIGNED - Small Scenes was letterpress printed during the winter of 2006 in a limited edition of 350 copies. This volume is one of only 50 copies that have been specially bound by hand into cloth and boards, numbered and signed by both the poet and the artist in black pen on the colophon page. This book is 31/50. The late Utah poet laureate has written 20 short original poems designed to specifically accompany the lovely Utah landscape woodblock prints that the artist Royden Card has created.…