The Happy Birthday of Death

New York: New Directions, 1960. First edition (stated). Paperback. Very mild wear to spine foot and head, light fading to spine, faint soiling to covers, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, else Very Good(+).. Black octavo; 91, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of b&w plates; 21 cm. Poetry. Contents: Notes after blacking out -- How happy I used to be -- Seaspin -- Hair -- 'Let us inspect the lyre' -- Under peyote -- Transformation & Escape -- Discord -- I held a Shelley manuscript -- 1953 -- On Pont Neuf -- Spontaneous poem after having seen the Metropolitan Museum -- Waterchew! -- Poets hitchhiking on the highway -- Marriage -- Bomb -- Food -- She doesn't know he think's he's God -- The frightening difference -- Death -- Medieval anatomy -- Early mornings writings -- Dream of a baseball star -- No doubt what he saw -- Written while watching the Yankees play Detroit -- A little lost -- Giant turtle -- A dreamed realization -- For K.R. who killed himself in Charles Street jail -- Paranoia in Crete -- Clown -- Away one year -- On Palatine -- A moment's wish -- Park -- The Sacre-Coeur Cafe -- Gargoyles -- For Bunny Lang -- Written in nosalgia for Paris -- Mortal infliction -- From another room -- Looking at the map of the world -- Heave the hive with new bees -- Owl -- All life is a rotary club -- Satyr;s chant -- Spring's melodious hearld -- Power -- Army -- Police -- 1959.