(New York: Harper & Row, 1979).

AWARD WINNING POET OFFERS 34 POEMS. These poems tell of farm life for the ordinary farmer. “Of Mr. Hughes’s power and powers as a poet there can be no doubt. He can command the child’s lacerating unsentimentality; the animal’s instinctual pounce; and the elements’ unarguing cogency. His world resembles that of ‘King Lear,’ a world of human inhumanity, of unfathomable predators, of Job’s comfortlessness and of violence shot through with flickering grace.”-Christopher Ricks. Item #23785

First edition. With two drawings by Leonard Baskin. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over boards, lettered in copper on the spine. Dustjacket with illustration by Baskin. xi,182 pp. A very nice and well preserved copy, the bottom edge of the jacket only with the most minimal evidence of shelving and very minor spotting to the edges of the prelims.