Nine Poems

[Connecticut]: Yale University, December 1965 Designed and printed by Galen Harley. First edition thus. One of 35 numbered copies, this being number 8. Signed and inscribed by printer Galen Harley in pencil to title page: "To my very / dear friend Dave / Very best wishes / Galen." Publisher's brown wrappers, front wrapper lettered in white, text printed on handmade paper and tissue colored in varying shades of brown. About fine, with a couple of light creases to front wrapper. Housed in a custom white folding slipcase. This collection features nine poems spanning E.E. Cummings' career, which first appeared in Tulips and Chimneys (1923), & (1925), 50 Poems (1940), and other volumes. The nine poems are: "love is more thicker than forget," "Spring is like a perhaps hand," "here's a little mouse)and," "this little bride & groom are," "it may not always be so; and i say," "my father moved through dooms of love," "who knows if the moon's," "anyone lived in a pretty how town," "stars rain sun moon," and "yes is a pleasant country:" The longest poem in the collection, "my father moved through dooms of love," is a moving tribute by Cummings to his father who died in a terrible car accident in 1926. One of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962) often married unconventional grammar and punctuation to traditionally poetic themes, like love and childhood. American poet Randall Jarrell wrote of Cummings, "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader." . Signed By Printer. First Edition Thus. Original Wrappers. Near Fine.