THE COLLECTED GREED, PARTS 1-13 - DELUXE ISSUES, SIGNED

by Diane Wakoski

$750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1968-1984. First Editions. An attractive set of Wakoski's long poem, published in five volumes over a 16 year period. I decided I wanted to write a long, preachy, didactic poem, using personal and trivial details, names of people, and even gossipy hearsay. I wanted to pontificate about life, to moralize, and yet somehow to write a poem which would have a nobility to it. I

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