POEMS: 1928-1931
New York: Scribner, 1932. First Edition. Blue cloth with label, in dust jacket; small 8vo. Inscribed to fellow Fugitive poet Merrill Moore: "(This too is a kind of noise that time makes.)", and dated May 17, 1932. Slightly cocked, worn at edges, about very good; the cellophane jacket has deteriorated, remains with paper flaps protected in mylar covers. Housed in a recent clamshell box with leather label. Very good / fair. Item #12244
Dr. Moore received his AB and MD at Vanderbilt, and was a central figure along with Tate, Warren, Ransom and a few others of the Fugitive group of poets. He spent most of his career in Boston where as a neuropsychiatrist his patients included Robert Lowell (and Lowell's mother) and Robert Frost. It was Moore who introduced Lowell to Tate (Lowell literally camped out in Tate's yard), and was instrumental in Lowell's transfer to Kenyon College (following Ransom from Vanderbilt), after he took a leave of absence from Harvard. Moore published in a relatively short life tens of thousands of sonnets, reportedly one a day.
Price: $750.00