[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] [UMBRA POETS - CONCRETE POETRY] PRITCHARD, N.H. (Norman Henry)

The Matrix. Poems: 1960-1970

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970. Early printing of the wrappered issue, lacking the "First Edition" statement and with $2.95 price sticker over the printed $2.45 price at upper right corner of front cover. Light wear to extremities, a few faint creases to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+.

The author's first book, issued simultaneously in hardcover and wrappers. Pritchard was a member of the Umbra poets collective on Manhattan's Lower East Side, whose visual poetry was considered avant-garde due to unconventional typography and spacing; his debut work garnered praise from W.F. Lucas, Allen Ginsberg, and Maxwell Geismar. 89542.

Price: $75.00

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