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Flanner, Hildegarde : Winter Rain

The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1947

One of 750 copies. Part Ten of the California Poetry Folios. Original publisher's beige folio. 6 1/2" x 10." Four pages, complete. A pristine, fine copy. Colophon on back of folio: "The California Poetry Folios, Number Eleven of the Club's annual keepsake series, will consist of twelve folders, each designed by a different amateur press, & each presenting a poem by an eminent California poet, with a commentary by the author. The poem in Part Ten was first printed in Voices, a magazine of verse published by Harold Vinal. Seven hundred & fifty copies each of these folders will be printed for presentation to Club members. This one was printed by the Eucalyptus Press, Mills College. Copyright 1947 by The Book Club of California." Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987) was an American poet, essayist, and conservationist. This is a nature poem about the winter rain. Excerpt from the two-stanza poem: "Oh come -- for here beneath the poise and strip / Of tactile waters tapping to get in, / The mind, the mortal soil gone bleak and sere / Goes green ... first bud, the firstling crisp and sheer.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: No Binding

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