Earth-Bound by Janet Lewis
The Earth-Bound by Janet Lewis. 1946 Wells College Press, one of 300 copies, 47 pages. Lewis was a novelist, librettist, and poet. Theodore Roethke described her work, in Poetry, “[...]is marked by an absolute integrity of spirit and often by the finality in phrasing that can accompany such integrity.” Earth-Bound was her third collection.
Condition: Good. Discoloring on back board.
"Sun creeps under the eaves,
And shines on the bare floor
While he forgets the earth."
The Earth-Bound by Janet Lewis. 1946 Wells College Press, one of 300 copies, 47 pages. Lewis was a novelist, librettist, and poet. Theodore Roethke described her work, in Poetry, “[...]is marked by an absolute integrity of spirit and often by the finality in phrasing that can accompany such integrity.” Earth-Bound was her third collection.
Condition: Good. Discoloring on back board.
"Sun creeps under the eaves,
And shines on the bare floor
While he forgets the earth."