Seven Aspects of Solitude

(Cottondale, AL: Plain Wrapper Press, 1988).

4to. 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. [16] pp. "Chi Sono" [who am I] is printed in gold ink on page [13]. Vertically ribbed printed wrappers, stitched, printed dust-jacket of the same paper. Includes the change of address card and letter dated November 1988, this copy of the letter with an ANS from Gabriel Rummonds to collector Ben Jones; these two pieces are called for in Fantasies and Hard Knocks. GIL123-005. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 275 copies of the LAST PUBLICATION OF THE PLAIN WRAPPER PRESS. Seven Aspects of Solitude contains an excerpt from a letter written from Japan in 1957 and six poems written over a period of twenty-two years, plus a line of graffiti of anonymous origin which i first saw sprayed on a Roman bridge, the Ponte Pietra, in Verona in 1973. Each of these contains a similar, but individually poignant, aspect of solitude…. The poems belong to diverse periods - each seemingly unconnected, but in actuality, loosely joined together by their emotional intensity and mood." Rummonds, Fantasies, p. 668.

REFERENCE: Rummonds, Fantasies and Hard Knocks, pp. 666-677.