THE ROSE OF SOLITUDE (SIGNED)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Cloth-backed cloth. (xiv) (1) 125 pp. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Brother Antoninus in ink to fellow poet Robert Dawson on the half-title: " for Robert Dawson from Brother Antoninus with the presence of the poet in the man: good! / Oct 23, 1967 / Kentfield Priory". Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed maroon cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". From the jacket flap: The Rose of Solitude, his fourth book of poems, grows out of a very real and personal encounter, the archetypal communion of man and woman, and is perhaps one of the most fiercely anguished and incandescently lyrical love poems in contemporary American literature." Born William Everson, Brother Antoninus was a lay brother of the Dominican order. In 1969, during a reading at University of California, Davis, he removed his Dominican robes, and became William Eveson again, to enter into marriage and resume his lay life. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (some edgewear, mostly at spine-ends), now in a clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address. Fine / Near Fine. Item #2713
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