[Rarebooks] FS: Poet Laureate Robert Hayden Inscribed to President & Mrs. Jimmy Carter

[Charles Agvent]

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 symbolic 
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. In 1985, this position became 
the Poet Laureate, thus making Hayden the first African American to 
serve as Poet Laureate of the United States. 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. 		$1,500.00

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