Into the Day

Scarce First Edition, first printing in near fine blue textured card wraps titled in black to the spine. Black discs (suns) to front and rear covers. Limited edition of 500 statement to final leaf. Binding square and firm, the spine just a touch faded. Yellow discs to two consecutive pages mid-sequence. Contents are very clean and bright. Printed on laid paper by the Saffron Press, Saffron Walden. 20 pp. Privately printed for the poet in Cambridge. Upon publication, the American poet George Oppen wrote to Prynne that he could ‘scarcely credit the existence of the last poem … its incredible beauty’, while the English poet Douglas Oliver wrote of the sequence's quality of patience, noting ‘that patience is beautiful’. A lovely copy.