PORTER, Bern; Margaret Dunbar, interviewer

Hulls Cove, ME: The Dog Ear Press, [1981]. 72pp; b&w illus. Blue wraps with illustrated "stamp" mounted to front cover; die-cut dust jacket. Light toning to edges of wraps and textblock, else near fine in lightly rubbed jacket. Signed to die-cut front endpaper by Porter; also signed, dated, and inscribed by Porter to leaf between pp. 4 and 5, which bears the former owner's blind-embossed seals. Presentation copy of this six-part interview conducted by conducted by Margaret Dunbar with sui generis American physicist, artist, and writer Bern Porter (1911-2004), as inscribed by Porter in 1990 to American Chicano poet Carlos Cumpián. Illustrated throughout with Porter's visual poems, mounted "stamps" by Carlo Pittore, and photographs of Porter by various hands.