Author: RATZLAFF, Keith Title: Across the Known World
Description: Parkersburg, IA, Loess Hills Books, 1997. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 47pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Handsome, tight first edition of this poet's second verse collection, nicely inscribed (not signed) by Ratzlaff in black ballpoint on title page: He crosses off his printed name and pens below it -- "Bill -- With admiration / for your haiku -- and / the fabulous teacher you / must be to have students / write like they do / UNI / 10/28/00." Recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), a poet especially known for haikus and long-time English professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49005
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