[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Hayden Inscribed to Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter

[Charles Agvent]

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HAYDEN, Robert. ANGLE OF ASCENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Inscribed
to  President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter. New York: Liveright (1975). First
Edition.  Hayden's  inspiring collection of verse  featuring  symoblic
portraits  of  fabled revolutionary Crispus Attucks, Amistad  mutineer
Joseph  Cinque,  Malcolm  X,  Sojourner  Truth,  Harriet  Tubman,  and
Frederick  Douglass.  Hayden would be remembered, poet Michael  Harper
contended,  as the first African-American lyricist "of perfect  pitch"
and  as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a position  held
during  the first two years of Jimmy Carter's presidency. This copy is
INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by the poet to the President and the First  Lady
on  the  title page: "For Jimmy/and Rosalynn/with  admiration/and  the
hope/that  all  their  endless   endeavors/will  be  blessed--/Bob." A
remarkable  association copy from the library of a President. Fine  in
close to Fine dustwrapper.                                    $1500.00


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