The Opening of the Field

New York: Grove Press, 1960. First printing (stated). White octavo, 96 pages; 21 cm. Extremely gentle wear to spine head and foot, extremely mild rubbing to edges and corners, light and small crease to rear cover, faint soiling to covers, else Near Fine(-). Paperback.

Out of Print. Poetry, American. Series: Evergreen original. Contents: Often I am permitted to return to a meadow -- The dance -- The law I love is major mover -- The structure of rime I -- The structure of rime II -- A poem slow beginning -- The structure of rime III -- The structure of rime IV -- The structure of rime V -- The structure of rime VI -- The structure of rime VII -- Three pages from a birthday book -- This place rumord to have been Sodom -- The ballad of the enamord mage -- The ballad of Mrs. Noah -- The maiden -- (The propositions) -- Four pictures of the real universe -- Evocation -- Of blasphemy -- Nor is the past pure -- Crosses of harmony and disharmony -- A poem of despondencies -- Poetry, a natural thing -- Keeping the rhyme -- A song of the old order -- The question -- The performance we wait for -- At Christmas -- Proofs -- Yes, as a look springs to its face -- Yes, as a look springs to its face, -- A poem beginning with a line by Pindar -- The structure of rime VIII -- The structure of rime IX -- The structure of rime X -- The structure of rime XI -- A storm of white -- Atlantis -- Out of the black -- Bone dance -- Under ground -- The natural doctrine -- The structure of rime XII -- The structure of rime XIII -- Another animadversion -- The inbinding -- Mirrors -- A process -- Returning to roots of first feeling -- After reading Barely and widely -- Ingmar Bergman's Seventh seal -- Food for fire, food for thought.