PHILLIPS, L.C. Disco Candy and other stories.

(Philadelphia, PA): PULSE–Finger Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 by 14.5cm. 209 pages. The uncommon first collection of short fiction by the American poet L. C. Phillips. Although best known for his poetry, Phillips here turns to prose in a sequence of stories whose title captures the atmosphere of late-1970s urban America. Written with a poet’s economy of language and eye for detail, the stories evoke the transient worlds of nightlife, popular culture, and everyday city experience at the close of the disco era. A very good copy in dust jacket.