WILLIAM MEREDITH - SELF-CARICATURE SIGNED - HFSID 16060
Price: $360.00
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The poet draws a self-caricature and adds descriptive pointers to features of his face.
Self-Caricature signed: "W. M.", 7x9. Head and neck self-caricature, with descriptions pointing
to three features: "Thin hair, but still covers scalp", "a little jowl", "cleft chin". William Morris
Meredith, Jr. (1919-2007), a decorated US Navy pilot in World War II and Korea, published
his first volume of poetry, Love Letter from an Impossible Land, in 1944. Meredith won the
1998 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Partial Accounts and the 1997 National Book Award in
Poetry for Efforts of Speech. (The latter describes his struggle to recover the power of
language after a stroke.) He was the US Library of Congress Poet Laureate (1978-1980), the
first gay recipient of this honor. Fine condition.
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