Author: VIDARTE, Santiago
Title: Poesias
Description: San Juan, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1965. Paperback. Illustrations by Carlos Marichal. 4to. Stiff cream wrappers. 40pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) lightly age toned and very slightly edgeworn; small nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Tight and handsome first edition of Volume 10 of this publisher's "Cuadernos de Poesia" ("Poetry Notebook") series. Vidarte (1827-1848) was the short-lived Puerto Rican romantic poet whose tiny but influential output included the patriotic classic "Insomnia." Marichal's pen-and-ink drawings for this volume are exquisitely perfect. Uncommon. .

Keywords: Poetry


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