Anchor Dragging

Rare and Signed, Poetry

Anchor Dragging

by Anthony Piccione

Available in limited quantity

This is a first edition, first printing. Soft cover. Rare. Book Condition: Fine. This copy has been archived at BOA Editions, Ltd. since its publication. Unread. Ideal collector's copy.

Praise for the collection

“I can give you a sense of Tony PiccIone in 18 words of his own: ‘The belly stirs, all its frogs start awake. I have always loved this creature, this body of grunts.’ He calls it ‘Late Night, World of Croaks’ which is fair enough except that it changes the subject. The subject is that strange companion of the journey whom we never get to know because he is too near and who never seems quite to recognize us no matter how close we sometimes are.” —Archibald MacLeish

© BOA Editions, Ltd. 1977.

FormatPaperback

$30.00

About the Author

Anthony Piccione

About the Author

Anthony Piccione was the author of four collections of poetry from BOA: The Guests at the Gate (2002), For the Kingdom (1995), Seeing It Was So (1986), and Anchor Dragging (1978), chosen by Archibald MacLeish for BOA's A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. Piccione founded Upright Hall, a residence retreat for poets on his farm in the hills near Prattsburgh, NY, and was one of the first poets to support the Poets For Peace readings organized by poet Larry Jaffe. He was Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing at the State University of New York College at Brockport, and died in 2001.

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