The Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems.
John Caddy.
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Add to basketSold by Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Add to basketFirst Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. A Paperback Original, not issued in hardcover. Near Fine in Wraps: just a hint of wear to the outside edges; the very mildest rubbing to the panels; the front panel wants to curl up at the outside edge ever so slightly; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing very mild wear and a barely discernible imperfection. Bright and clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 0.5 inches). 128 pages. Index. Final page woodcut. Language: English. Weight: 8.5 ounces. Trade Paperback. A collection of poems and short prose pieces about surviving a violent childhood in the decaying mining towns of the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota. Illustrated with woodcut decorations by R. W. Scholes. Caddy's poetry honors include the Lakes and Prairies competition of Milkweed Editions which resulted in his first full book,"Eating the Sting,including The Heronry", in 1986. A Loft/McKnight award quickly followed, as did a Minnesota State Arts Board award. In 1989 John won the Poets & Writers' Writers Exchange Award, which had him reading at the American Poetry Society in Manhattan, then at West Coast venues in Los Angeles and San Francisco. In 1990 John also won the Bush Foundation's Individual Artist Fellowship.[John's 1989 book, "The Color of Mesabi Bones", won the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and the Minnesota Book Award. John Caddy was chosen from artists of all genres to receive the 2012 McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, with this encomium: "John Caddy models a life of devotion to craft, to humanity, and to our natural world," said McKnight Foundation president Kate Wolford. "Minnesotan to the core, he is at once an outstanding artist and an inspiring environmentalist, an exceptional representative of our state's arts community. I am delighted to honor John Caddy as the 2012 McKnight Distinguished Artist. " First Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. A Paperback Original, not issued in hardcover.
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