POETRY COMICS No. 2; The Muse
Iowa City: The Happy Press, August 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Nine pages in stapled self-wraps; thin 4to. Printed on rectos only (except the back cover) on varied color paper. The entirety Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in comic format ("cartoonized" by Morice), with a brief appearance on the back cover of Pound's Imagist classic "In a Station of the Metro" ("...Petals on a Wet Black Bough"). Near Fine (housed in a plastic sleeve with cardboard backing). Scarce in any condition. Near fine. Item #16090
Morice is best known as a founder of The Actualist Poetry Movement, centered in Iowa City, which fostered numerous literary magazines including his GUM and Allen Kornblum's Toothpaste Press.
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