New York; (1933)
by Blanding, Don
New York; (1933): Henry M. Snyder. Small Octavo. 47 unnumbered pages of the woman who vowed to remain a virgin until a woman friend placed a book in her hand called 'Vermillion Sin' (a bibliographic ghost, by the way). The book aroused what had been dormant and she at age 40 finds a drunken sailor. The poet writes that he cannot describe what took place that night but when her body was found on the beach the next morning she had passed away but on her face was a beatific smile. The "Wrecks": An Anthology of Ribald Verse notes this as one that brings a smile to the face of those with thoughts of lust though not in some of the cruder poems in its contents. (truncated)