The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe]

New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Dark blue paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 78 pp. Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet to Quincy [Troupe] and his wife Margaret in San Diego where Troupe taught at the time, dated and signed "Derek". The title poem a long elegy for his mother, most are about St. Lucia his birthplace. With blurbs by fellow Nobel Prize-winners Brodsky and Heaney. Light bumping to head and tail of the spine, else fine in like dust jacket.