First edition of this exceptionally scarce early chapbook by Diane Glancy, self-published at the outset of her career. Stations of the Cross followed Traveling On (1980) and appeared in the same year as Drystalks of the Moon, placing it among Glancy's earliest separate publications. 8vo (5.75 × 8.5 inches), original printed wrappers, string-tied at spine. 20 unnumbered pages. Apparently unrecorded in OCLC and omitted from standard bibliographies of her work.
Eighteen short poems/prose poems recast the Christian Stations of the Cross through contemporary language and an American landscape of Box Canyon, gravel roads, barns, wind and rain—an early manifestation of Glancy's continuing engagement with Christianity, place, history and spiritual experience. Typewritten text with manuscript-style headings reproduced in facsimile; Hadassah Press device at rear. Hadassah—Hebrew for "myrtle"—refers to Glancy's grandmother and corresponds to the Myrtlewood Press name under which she issued other early work. Modest, essentially handmade/self-published production characteristic of Glancy's earliest period.
From the working library of poet and longtime Vassar professor Nancy Willard, though without ownership markings. Light toning and fading to wrappers, otherwise very good. An elusive survival from the first years of Glancy's publishing career; no copy located in current commerce.
First edition of this exceptionally scarce early chapbook by Diane Glancy, self-published at the outset of her career. Stations of the Cross followed Traveling On (1980) and appeared in the same year as Drystalks of the Moon, placing it among Glancy's earliest separate publications. 8vo (5.75 × 8.5 inches), original printed wrappers, string-tied at spine. 20 unnumbered pages. Apparently unrecorded in OCLC and omitted from standard bibliographies of her work.
Eighteen short poems/prose poems recast the Christian Stations of the Cross through contemporary language and an American landscape of Box Canyon, gravel roads, barns, wind and rain—an early manifestation of Glancy's continuing engagement with Christianity, place, history and spiritual experience. Typewritten text with manuscript-style headings reproduced in facsimile; Hadassah Press device at rear. Hadassah—Hebrew for "myrtle"—refers to Glancy's grandmother and corresponds to the Myrtlewood Press name under which she issued other early work. Modest, essentially handmade/self-published production characteristic of Glancy's earliest period.
From the working library of poet and longtime Vassar professor Nancy Willard, though without ownership markings. Light toning and fading to wrappers, otherwise very good. An elusive survival from the first years of Glancy's publishing career; no copy located in current commerce.
