WORK, FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING

New York: Macmillan, 1981. First edition. Brown cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 47 pp. Advance Review Copy with publisher's printed letter laid in. Inscribed by the author to the late Philly poet/editor Louis Mckee. The 1980 Walt Whitman Award winner, for a first book; chosen by Galway Kinnell. In this book Carter introduces his Mississinewa County, a place in the heartland, with its people and history he has returned to in subsequent books. He works primarily in a formal and narrative mode; his work has been praised by Dana Gioia and Ted Kooser. Near fine in lightly soiled and worn near fine dustjacket. Signed by the poet.