David Ignatow Poems 1934-1969 is a 262-page softcover published first in 1946. This copy published in 1970 by Wesleyan University Press. There is a crease along the spine and foxing to the outside page edges. Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked.
Book Summary
“The poems of David Ignatow are wry, they are about ordinary working life, and yet they are continually overlaid with a wisdom that is not so much from experience as from courage and intelligence no other poet I have read has so little self-pity, so much humility, and such an unbearable reality to deal with there is an honesty, a wholesome a wholeness of vision, and a simple humanity in the work which I am drawn to.” –The New York Review of Books
David Ignatow has lived most of his life in and around New York City. He began writing poetry in the thirties, and since that time has steadily added to a body of work that has won the respect and acclaim of poets and critics and has brought him many honors, including an award for the National Institute of Arts and Letters for a lifetime of creative effort. In 1977 David Ignatow was awarded the Bollingen Prize.
ISBN: 0-8195-6059-6