Going to the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage 1983 SIGNED Ralph Salisbury ~ poetry

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Title: Going to the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage

Author: Ralph Salisbury

Description: Inscribed by Salibury on half-title page. Printed wraps. Slight handling; minor soiling on rear cover, else fine. 67 pages.

Salisbury's 1983 collection of 55 poems.

Ralph James Salisbury (1926-2017) was an American poet, a native of Iowa, who had English, Cherokee, and Shawnee heritage through his father. He studied under the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell while at the University of Iowa, earning his MFA in 1951. He was a Fulbright professor in Norway and Germany, professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, and served as the editor of the Northwest Review from 1965 to 1970. He was a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. His wife was the Oregon Book Award-winning writer Ingrid Wendt.


Binding: Softcover
Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Pacific House Books
Place: Eugene, Oregon
Year: 1983

Keywords: poetry,

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