First edition of Agee's debut collection, published as the thirty-third volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets only two years after the author's graduation from Harvard.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $400.00
"Now we know we do not love. / No more doubt. No more deceiving."
Claimed as a peculiarly brilliant critic, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist according to the interests and allegiances of his readership, Agee has also been hailed in turn as a poet above all - "Basically, he was a poet" (David McDowell). The nature and quality of Agee's poetry, left undefined and nearly unmentioned in MacLeish's foreword, was described after his death by his friend and contemporary Robert Fitzgerald: "A sense of the breathing community immersed in mystery, exposed to a range of experience from what can only be called the divine to what can only be called the diabolical, most intelligent in awe and most needful of mercy - a religious sense of life, in short - moved James Agee in his best work."
Read more: Fitzgerald, "James Agee: A Memoir"; Madden et al., Remembering James Agee.
First printing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. 9'' x 6''. Original green cloth. In original unclipped ($2.00) printed green dust jacket. 59, [3] pages. Minor edgewear and sunning to boards. Light chipping, faint soil to wrappers.
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