Uncommon hardcover issue of this early work by the esteemed American poet, written in the early 1950s while an inmate of the Bloomingdale mental hospital and thought lost for many years before its rediscovery. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo (5.75 x 8.75 in.); xii, 77pp.; gray cloth boards. Shelfwear resulting in slight loss of color at spine ends and bottom corners. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket with a shallow band of chipping at head of spine.
