MOORTOWN
(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.