In the Mecca: Poems.

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Creator

Gwendolyn Brooks.

Title

In the Mecca: Poems.

Coverage

New York; Evanston, IL; London:

Publisher

Harper & Row, Publishers,

Date

[1968].

Description

Inscribed copies of books are those that have been signed or autographed by the author, usually with a sentiment or message, for another person. This copy of In the Mecca was inscribed by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks to the poet Sam Cornish (1925–2018). Brooks was the poet laureate of the state of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000; Cornish was the poet laureate of the city of Boston and an instructor at Emerson College. Brooks’s inscription is dated 1991. No doubt Brooks met Cornish and signed his book when she gave a talk at Emerson College in April of that same year.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School