THE FORM OF LOSS
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Second issue; jacket in bold green typeface. Tan cloth stamped in brown; in printed dust jacket; Small 8vo. Poet's first book. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few fox spots, but still bright green without the usual toning. Uncommon in this condition. Near fine / near fine. Item #10544
Bowers was a student of Yvor Winters at Stanford, and taught for many years at UC Santa Barbara; as one would expect from a student of Winters, he worked mostly in form, though he moved more towards blank unrhymed verse in later books. The winner of a Bollingen prize among others, he is generally seen as one of the more neglected poets of his generation. Harold Bloom called him "one of the best living American poets these past forty years." He died in 2000.
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