Desert Poems 1930 by Ada Hastings Hedges SIGNED Poet buy Poetry of Southeast Oregon's High Desert

Title: Desert Poems

Author: Ada Hastings Hedges

Description: Black and dark green patterned cloth boards; top of paper label on spine is chipped. A little wear at spine ends. Missing ffep (with two remaining blank flyleaves, its absence is negligible), otherwise a very good copy. Interior is clean. 65 pages. Scarce.

The solitary volume of poetry published by Oregon buy poet Ada Hastings Hedges (1883-1980), inspired by the high desert of southeast Oregon. Includes her thirteen sonatas entitled ''The Desert Wife,'' her response to C.E.S. Wood's The Poet in the Desert, in which she traces the days and impressions of a woman, a hard-scrabble farmer's wife, amidst the rocky and sagebrush strewn lands.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Metropolitan Press
Place: Portland, Oregon
Year: 1930

Keywords: Oregon, poet, poetry, Eastern Oregon, verse, high desert,