First printing of this important collection of Surrealist poetry, the first such published in English – with annotations by Maryland Poet Laureate and Guggenheim Fellow Stanley Plumly.

Handsome first printing of this investigation of US poetry's imminent doom, an association copy inscribed by the author to poet Stanley Plumly (to whom Holden devotes several pages), and with Plumly's own critical annotations ("nonsense") throughout.

First edition thus, Series One and Two of Zukofsky's collected poems, previously published separately by Norton in 1965 and 1966.

First US edition of the first half of Zukofsky's long poem, initially published by Origin Press in 1959, with an introduction by Robert Creeley.