Songs for a Summer Fly.
[Pasadena:]: Kenmore Press, [1978]. First edition. One of 125 copies, and one of only five copies to contain a manuscript insert signed by the author. Text in red and black. Line drawing illustrations by Steven S. Chayt throughout in black and grey. Includes frontispiece and colophon. Text hand-set in Bembo. Printed on Ragston paper. A fine copy. Includes annotated T.L.s. of an included poem fragment, housed in rear inner sleave. Red, white, and black marbled boards with title in red and black on purple-grey paper label. Purple-grey endpapers. Octavo. [16] pp. Item #18031
Raymond “Ray” DiZazzo (birth date unrecorded) is a contemporary American poet based in California. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of the Percival Roberts Book Award.
A brief sequence of four, clearly quite longing poems that concern themselves with the transient, sensuous, and occasionally violent lives of flies.
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