Olga Broumas — Beginning with O

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this collection of lesbian eroticism from Greek poet Olga Broumas. First edition. Volume seventy-two of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The author's first published collection. A collection of poetry exploring lesbian eroticism, in which the author fights to transliterate the alphabet of the body into a language with which to construct the fate of woman. Pulsing with angers and wonder, this collection describes the sense of the body. Written by Olga Broumas, a Greek poet and resident in the United States who has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.