Sleepers Joining Hands

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Inscribed with a drawing by Bly on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly soiled. Olive and cream cloth on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bly's follow-up to his National Book Award-winning collection The Light Around the Body. Here Bly "moves deeper into the spiritual terrain of America--exploring what it is in us that continues to bomb in Vietnam, to sweep the Indians aside, to exploit the countryside: the shadow side of American consciousness.