A Poem for February First 1975. For Jessica Mitford [broadside]

Boyle, Kay

San Francisco: Quercus Press, 1975. Broadside, 12x23 inches, very light wear, creasing at top edge, personal inscription signed by Boyle at bottom, publication information printed on verso and handwritten note; "Courtesy of the Pacific Sun Literary Supplement" in ink at verso bottom.

Poem about the Attica prison uprising.
"The men locked arm in arm in the Attica of our dust, our maggots, our dereliction, stand
Halted at the edge, high on their hushed precipice, men whose names we have since learned,
Who choked, who wept, who fell on their knees in D-Yard as the helicopter dipped
And let its cargo of gas drift, lazy as smoke, quiet as cloud formations,
Across the rainy dawn..."

Cat.No: 223740

Price: $75.00