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![Book cover picture of [Bell, Marvin, signed] Warren, Robert Penn, introduction. Illustrated by Barry Moser FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY: Anniversary Volume for the Academy of American Poets. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1984.)](http://www.bookfever.com/book_photos/29506.jpg) | First edition. A very attractive and richly produced book commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of American Poets with one poem each from the 126 poets who were Chancellors, Fellows and Award Winners during that half a century. SIGNED by Marvin Bell at this poem "These Green Going to Yellow." Included are contributions from Marianne Moore, Richard Eberhart, Robert Nathan, Robert Lowell, Philip Levine, Ezra Pound, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Plath, James Merrill, Ai, Louis Bogan, David Bottoms, Elizabeth Bishop, e.e. cummings, Marilyn Hacker, X. J. Kennedy, Robinson Jeffers, Jane Cooper, Donald Hall, John Berryman, and many others. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren and 6 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Unusual tall format: 11 inches high by 7 inches. 260 pp. Very good+ in very good dust jacket (upper corner slightly bumped, minor edgewear to dustjacket.) .ISBN # 0-8109-09340
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