From Simon & Schuster, Academic Festival Overtures is Daryl Hine's poem. The work evokes the passage from adolescence through puberty, the discovery of vocation and sexuality, and is an important contribution to gender and queer studies in Canada, as well as literary history. Originally published in 1985, Daryl Hine's Academic Festival Overtures is a rare feat of formal and imaginative brilliance, a long confessional poem and bildungsromans, recounting the author's own fourteenth year in 1950s British Columbia ...
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From Simon & Schuster, Academic Festival Overtures is Daryl Hine's poem. The work evokes the passage from adolescence through puberty, the discovery of vocation and sexuality, and is an important contribution to gender and queer studies in Canada, as well as literary history. Originally published in 1985, Daryl Hine's Academic Festival Overtures is a rare feat of formal and imaginative brilliance, a long confessional poem and bildungsromans, recounting the author's own fourteenth year in 1950s British Columbia.
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Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures to cart. $9.25, fair condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Scribner.
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Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures to cart. $19.98, very good condition, Sold by The Guru Bookshop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1985 by Scribner.
Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Atheneum.
Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Atheneum.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Jacket illustrated by Virgil Burnett. Text block edges very lightly foxed, near fine in a slightly tanned near fine dust jacket with a short tear on the rear panel. A book of poetry focused on one year of the poet's life, his first year in junior high school in British Columbia.
Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures to cart. $57.94, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Atheneum.
Add this copy of Academic Festival Overtures: a Poem (Signed First to cart. $1,500.00, like new condition, Sold by Dan Pope Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from WEST Hartford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Atheneum, New York.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($20) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Very light fading to jacket spine. Very light foxing on edges and a very slight spine slant on an otherwise beautiful copy. This book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. Event brochure from The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, which hosted author (Hine) and Alfred Corn (McClatchy's then-partner), laid in (with a schedule for McClatchy's own upcoming talk included in the brochure). This copy has been SIGNED, inscribed, dated, and LINED by Hine to McClatchy ("Sandy") on the front endpaper: "Already I sensed that the hearts of the subject; Did not matter as much as the encomium" (the true quote is actually, "Did not matter as much as the beauty of the encomium). ASSOCIATION copy.
