The Fourth King.
first edition
(1953).
by SMITH, Leroy Jr.
NY: MacMillan , (1953).. First edition.. 37 pp. Very good plus in like dust jacket. A series of religious and philosophical poems centering around Genesis, using the Biblical story and its characters as a way of exploring the origins of consciousness, a sense of exile and/or grief, and longing for transcendence. Smith's first collection of poems. (Inventory #: 29813)