An Eastward Look. Berry, Wendell.

First edition, signed limited issue, number 25 of 26 copies signed by the author on the final page and printed on mould-made paper. This copy is from the library of Berry's fellow environmentalist poet William Henry Matchett, whose poems were inspired by his home in Hood Canal, Washington, and who served as president of the Hood Canal Environmental Council. Matchett (1923-2021) eschewed modern technology, perhaps taking a leaf from Berry's essay "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer" (1987). Matchett was also a founding member of the Poets' Theatre, the editor of Modern Language Quarterly, and an emeritus professor at the University of Washington. His ownership inscription, on the first leaf, is dated December 1974, following publication in Autumn. Drawing from Japanese and Chinese influences, this work comprises a series of haiku and the section "Chinese Painting Poems". These are verses written in response to artists such as Ni Zanand Shen Zhou, in keeping with the Chinese tradition of seeking the poetry within a painting and the painting within a poem. A trade issue of 350 copies was published simultaneously. Freedman A24a. Small octavo, pp. 22. Original sewn yellow wrappers, front cover lettered in red, device on rear cover in white, fore and bottom edges uncut. A fine copy.