Blue Juniata: Poems.
"Farmhouses curl like horns of plenty, hide lean paintless against the barn, or crouch empty in the shadow of a mountain": First edition of Malcolm Cowley's Blue Juniata: Poems
Blue Juniata: Poems.
COWLEY, Malcolm.
$2,200.00
Item Number: 101445
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929.
First edition of this landmark in modern American poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in good condition.
This collection of Cowley's poems marked a landmark in modern American poetry; here is verse that reflects the almost sterile beauty of the Pennsylvania countryside; poems of passion, poems of the city and the sea. Cowley provides two definitions in the preface of the work, "Juniata: - A river of west-central Pennsylvania, rising in Somerset County near the crest of the Alleghenies..." and "Blue Juniata: - A sentimental ballad popular toward the end of the last cenutry, I remember the opening couples: Wild roved an Indian girl, bright Alfarata, Where sweep the waters of the blue Juniata."
