Midpoint, - and other poems

Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969, 1969. Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969. Tan cloth over boards, gold lettering. Very Good clean, solid, sligh spot on front cover, no bumped corners./DJ Very Good, not damage, clean.not clipped $4.50.. In the boldly eclectic title poem of his collection, John Updike employs the meters of Dante, Spenser, Pope, Whitman, and Pound, as well as the pictographic tactics of concrete poetry, to take an inventory of his life at the end of his thirty-fifth year at midpoint These cantos form both a joke on the antique genre of the long poem and an attempt to write one: an earnest meditation on the mysteries of the ego, lost time, and the mundane. Alfred A.Knopf , NY, stated First Edition,04/1969. Very Good clean, solid, sligh spot on front cover, no bumped corners. DJ Very Good, not damage, clean.not clipped $4.50. Tan cloth over boards, gold lettering. Very Good Copy.