The Dust Which is God
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941. Octavo. Item #031843
2nd printing. 559pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1941. This volume is unique and important, not only inscribed but also in that it contains a long tribute of his former wife poet Elenor Wylie. The poem refers to his deceased wife (where he applies the name Sylvia for her). The paradox is that though she had died in 1928, he could never forget how remarkable she was. Besides her many affairs and broken marriages, he found something in her that he could not escape. This long poem then refers to her. Note the further inscription which he writes of her in a dozen line tribute praising his memory of her. It describes her as beautiful, mortal, like a child. in his most beautiful language. An important volume for the insights it gives us into an important poet and his lament of her passing though he had since remarried. Bound in beige cloth lettered in brown, spine lettering brown, toning to outer edges of boards and spine, light spots of scattered foxing to fore-edges. A very good copy.
Price: $375.00