[Uncorrected Proof] Blue Juanita A Life: Collected and New Poems

New York: Viking / Penguin Books, 1985. First edition. Perfect bound. Very good +. 162 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Blue printed wraps. Title penned in red ink on spine. Spine sunned and one small crease to corner of front wrap, else near fine. Scarce. "The poetry of more than sixty years by one of America's most distinguished men of letters. 'Blue Juanita' was the title of Malcolm Cowley's first book of poems, published in 1929. This collection, newly compiled, includes fifty poems from 'Blue Juanita', several from 'The Dry Season', and several new and previously unpublished works. A powerful mosaic, 'Blue Juanita' is an inner view of Cowley's life work. Malcolm Cowley, formerly an editor at 'The New Republic' and elsewhere, continues to write and publish from his Connecticut home. His most recent book is 'The Flower and the Leaf (Viking)." --from the first page.