ZATURENSKA, MARYA — Collected Poems

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some edge wear, rubbing and tiny edge tears to the spine ends and corners. There is one small semip-closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel of the dust jacket, and a very small chip from the top rear flap joint. "After her marriage to poet and critic Horace Gregory in 1925, Zaturenska began to seriously dedicate herself to writing. Her first collection of poems, Threshold and Hearth (1934) , won the Shelley Memorial Award. However, it was her second book, Cold Morning Sky, that won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. Zaturenska's poetry was closely associated with the decadent style, a literary movement that ran its course during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This movement found art superior to nature, and beauty in death and decay. Her interest in the elegance and artifice of this style was also expressed in her well-regarded biography of poet Christina Rossetti , published in 1949." (from Encyclopediadotcom). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .