The Final Nite & Other Poems: The Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006 by Steve Dalachinsky - 2006-01-01

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book Condition: light signs of handling with faint wear to the extremities; binding very sound, interior clean and bright and unmarked. Warmly but cryptically inscribed by author: "For whomever is holding this book who are is Jack - all the bugs out of language into the music of the ears. Steve, Cornelia Street. 10/9/06." A lovely copy poetically inscribed. Accessed from assorted online sources: "Born in Brooklyn in 1946, much of the chronology of Dalachinsky's life and work is unclear. He had been publishing chapbooks and individual poems since at least the early 1980s; although the 2009 anthology Reaching into the Unknown contains writing that dates back to 1964, it wasn't until 2000 that he published his first full-length book of poems, A Superintendent's Eyes. He was a prolific reader and performer… Read More