1953, The Human Climate by Josephine Jacobsen, HBw/dj 1st, POETRY, SIGNED TWICE

Description: FIRST EDITION, published by Contemporary Poetry of Baltimore; this Volume 5 of their Contemporary Poetry Library Series, edited by Mary Owings Miller. The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. The dust jacket was found with a thin glassine wrapper. There is light soiling on the jacket and age-toning around the edges. There is very light wear along the edges with a few small tears and chips, fully intact. Blue cloth boards with clear yellow titling and decoration on front board and spine. A few soil marks front board, edges and corners with light to moderate wear. There is a previous owner bookplate behind the front cover. NICE INSCRIPTION TO "ROY" OF THE BOOKPLATE ON ENDPAPER OPPOSITE THE BOOKPLATE, AND THEN FLAT-SIGNED BY JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN ON HALF TITLE PAGE. 39 clean and solidly bound pages, with rough-cut fore edges. I have several books of Josephine Jacobsen poetry inscribed to Roy and his wife, and will be listing them individually. On Josephine Jacobsen from Wikipedia: "Josephine Jacobsen (19 August 1908 – 9 July 2003) was a Canadian-born American poet, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She was appointed the twenty-first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. In 1997, she received the Poetry Society of America’s highest award, the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry... ... Jacobsen's literary career began when her first poem was published in the children's St. Nicholas Magazine when she was 11 years old. Jacobsen described seeing her poem in print in St. Nicholas as the "most amazing feeling" and "a special occasion". She said that she thought, "I’m a professional poet at the age of 11." In her late teens, Jacobsen started publishing in the Junior League magazine Connected. Jacobsen's first poetry collection, Let Each Man Remember, was published in 1940. However, she did not gain widespread recognition until her 60s. For Jacobsen, it was "the writing itself, not prizes or possible honors, that mattered the most". She also said that the "greatest thing" she can feel about one of her poems is that it has " helped another human being in a really bad time"." From another website on her first three books, including this one: "A devout Catholic, her poetry spiritually informed in its treatment of existential anxieties. Her first published poem appeared in a children’s magazine when she was around 10 years old. Jacobsen gained critical attention with the publication of Let Each Man Remember (1940). In this volume, featuring 15 love sonnets and a section of metaphysical lyric poems, Jacobsen demonstrates her ability to compose poetry within disciplined forms. The Human Climate: New Poems (1953) contains intensely personal verse in which Jacobsen conveys her views on the injustices and hypocrisies of the world with direct and incisive language. Her next work, The Animal Inside (1966), displays Jacobsen’s range of subject and form. This collection contains poems about animals, including a sestina on hummingbirds, which poet William Jay Smith deemed one of her finest poems. The book also includes meditative pieces on the topics of love and death. Commenting on the book as a whole, Smith wrote that the poet’s “observant eye and varied interest, reflected in a broad range of skillfully handled stanza forms, makes for a most attractive volume.” B138

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