CLOUDLESS AT FIRST by Hilda Morley, 1st 1988 hardcover, Black Mountain poet

by Hilda Morley

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Cloudless at First by Hilda Morley Moyer Bell, New York, 1988. Cloth hardcover very good in dust jacket very good (cover art by Elaine de Kooning); 211 pages. Hilda Morley (September 19, 1916 – March 23, 1998) was an American poet associated with the Black Mountain movement. Cloudless at First presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work,in the same sure, lyrical voice. Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play.-Stanley Kunitz

• Publisher: Moyer Bell
• Year: 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780918825711
• Condition: Very Good

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