New York: Knopf, 1993. Limited Edition. Single Sheet. Near Fine. Item #2305723

Signed without inscription on top right portion. Rolled in cardboard tube.

22 3/4 x 10. Thick cream paper stock with a background design. This 37-line poem was originally published in The New Yorker in 1992, Updike's poem July is here printed as a broadside in conjunction with the publication of his Collected Poems: 1953-1993. These broadsides were designed to be distributed to booksellers as promotional items. "Updike remarked in an interview collected by the Poetry Foundation that "I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form." The poet Thomas M. Disch noted that because Updike was such a well-known novelist, his poetry "could be mistaken as a hobby or a foible"; Disch saw Updike's light verse instead as a poetry of "epigrammatical lucidity." His poetry has been praised for its engagement with "a variety of forms and topics," its "wit and precision," and for its depiction of topics familiar to American readers."

Price: $225.00