signed first edition Hard Cover
1971 · London
by Fisher, Roy
London: Fulcrum Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('For Mike Erwin with thanks - Roy Fisher'). Small sticker remnant on jacket spine base. 1971 Hard Cover. 79, [1] pp. 8vo. "'The Cut Pages' is either a long prose poem or an experimental prose text: the definition is open. It was first printed in the eponymous Fulcrum Press book in 1971, but was subsequently left out of the collected editions of the author's poems...In the original edition the author described his aim in writing the piece as being 'to give the words as much relief as possible from serving in planned situations; so the work was taken forward with no programme beyond the principle that it should not know where its next meal was coming from ...This method produced very rapid changes of direction. (Inventory #: 2263293)