Signed and FRAMED broadside

"To The Muse of Doorways Edges Verges"

by Marie Ponsot

One in a print edition of 150 copies, printed at the Center For Book Arts in NYC (2002).

The item is framed.

9.25 x 17.5

Marie Ponsot was born in Queens, New York, on April 6, 1921. She received a BA from St. Joseph's College for Women and an MA from Columbia University. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the founder of City Lights Books, published Ponsot's first poetry collection, True Minds(City Lights Pocket Bookshop) in 1956. During this time, she also translated over thirty books from French to English.

Twenty-five years after the publication of True Minds, Ponsot published her second book, Admit Impediment (Alfred A. Knopf), in 1981. Since then, she has written several books of poetry: Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016); Easy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009); Springing: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002); The Bird Catcher (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and The Green Dark (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988).

Ponsot has taught at Beijing United University, Columbia University, New York University, the Poetry Center of the YMHA, and Queens College. Her honors include the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association; and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2014.