GLÜCK, Louise.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Firstborn. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "August 4. For Hugh: Only great fondness could keep my admiration admiration [sic] & not envy, from Louise".The recipient was the poet Hugh Seidman, whom Glück greatly admired. "I know few collections so lacking in complacency, so adamant in their refusal to charm or console, so fiercely intelligent", she wrote of his Collecting Evidence (1970). "If Seidman has less conspicuous virtuosity than Plath (to fix on the obvious contemporary example), he has, to my mind, greater subtlety, an inclination to prefer recalcitrant mystery to hallucination".

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