The Opening of the Field

New York: Grove Press, 1960. First printing (stated). Paperback. Extremely gentle wear to spine head and foot, extremely mild rubbing to edges and corners, light and small crease to rear cover, faint soiling to covers, else Near Fine(-).. White octavo, 96 pages; 21 cm. Out of Print. Poetry, American. Series: Evergreen original. Contents: Often I am permitted to return to a meadow -- The dance -- The law I love is major mover -- The structure of rime I -- The structure of rime II -- A poem slow beginning -- The structure of rime III -- The structure of rime IV -- The structure of rime V -- The structure of rime VI -- The structure of rime VII -- Three pages from a birthday book -- This place rumord to have been Sodom -- The ballad of the enamord mage -- The ballad of Mrs. Noah -- The maiden -- (The propositions) -- Four pictures of the real universe -- Evocation -- Of blasphemy -- Nor is the past pure -- Crosses of harmony and disharmony -- A poem of despondencies -- Poetry, a natural thing -- Keeping the rhyme -- A song of the old order -- The question -- The performance we wait for -- At Christmas -- Proofs -- Yes, as a look springs to its face -- Yes, as a look springs to its face, -- A poem beginning with a line by Pindar -- The structure of rime VIII -- The structure of rime IX -- The structure of rime X -- The structure of rime XI -- A storm of white -- Atlantis -- Out of the black -- Bone dance -- Under ground -- The natural doctrine -- The structure of rime XII -- The structure of rime XIII -- Another animadversion -- The inbinding -- Mirrors -- A process -- Returning to roots of first feeling -- After reading Barely and widely -- Ingmar Bergman's Seventh seal -- Food for fire, food for thought.