POETRY, PUBLISHING, AND VISUAL CULTURE FROM LATE MODERNISM TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Fugitive Pieces.

First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 18 black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, mildly rubbed to the tail of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a presentation inscription from the author, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

Inscription reads 'Falmouth, 10th June 2020 / For Richard, / As if the Intro wasn't / long enough - here's the / rest of it! / Love, Natalie'. The recipient is Dr Richard Rowland, editor and author on the Renaissance and classical mythology, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Rowland is further mentioned in the Acknowledgements 'The prodigious intellect of Richard Rowland deserves mention and much else besides, as does his unstinting entanglement in all forms of friendship and collaboration'. 'This is a book about contemporary literary and artistic entanglements: word and image, media and materiality, inscription and illustration. It proposes a vulnerable, fugitive mode of reading poetry, which defies disciplinary categorizations, embracing the open-endedness and provisionality of forms' (publisher's blurb).