Near The Ocean.
"We hear the ocean. Older seas and deserts give asylum, peace to each abortion and mistake. Lost in the Near Eastern dreck, the tyrant and tyrannicide lie like the bridegroom and the bride": First edition of Robert Lowell's Near The Ocean; inscribed by him
Near The Ocean.
LOWELL, Robert.
$2,500.00
Item Number: 142550
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
First Noonday printing of Lowell’s renowned collection of poems, including his famous Waking Early on Sunday Morning. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Sebastiano In the time of my crisis Robert Lowell Jan. 6, 1976 Greenways Nur[s]ing Home Robert.” In very good condition with a few holograph markings and notes including brief corrections on pages 35 and 40, owner’s inscription covered with white paint on front inside cover. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
"Near the Ocean includes one of Lowell's best known poems: 'Waking Early on Sunday Morning,' which does for the sixties what Auden's celebrated 'September 1. 1940' does for an earlier decade... There are new poems written in desperate staccato; love-poems, parent-poems, poems to friends, all of them near perfect in their gravel-voiced despair" (Cyril Connolly).
