Blackbird Bye Bye

NY: Random House (1989). First edition. 66 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lightly rubbed). An announcement from the Academy of American Poets laid in. Winner of the 1988 Walt Whitman Award, this is Bernard’s first book, notable for its title poem, whose passion, vatic tone and supplications points the way towards the gorgeous vocabulary of her second volume of poetry, PSALMS, now an underground classic.