Description

• First Thus [Peter Pauper Press, New York, 1958]; 61pp; illustrated boards, a fine copy; in excellent price-clipped dustjacket replicating design on board
• Controversial at the time of publication but now considered a core contribution to French poetry
• Printed for the collection’s 100th anniversary [First Edition published by Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, Paris, 1857]
• Illustrated by Jeff Hill
• Translated & with foreword by Jacques Leclercq
• This selection contains five of the six controversial poems that caused such an uproar upon initial publication [missing Lesbos]