Swallow the Lake

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20.75cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.00), with some light foxing to spine and right edge of front panel. The author's first poetry collection from a mainstream publisher, and third book, following a novel and his influential 1969 anthology The New Black Poetry. BLOCKSON 6516.