JOHNSON, B.S. Poems Two. London: Trigram Press. 1972.
Tall 8vo. Black and white photographic paper wrappers with green endpapers; pp. [10], 11-61, [1]; minimal scuffing to spine, slight crease to lower corner; otherwise near fine.
First edition.
A compilation of poems written between 1964-1971, Poems Two is B.S. Johnson's second collection of poetry. Segmented into a series entitled; 'Exorcising', 'Loving', 'Observing', 'Unthinking' and 'Rotting'; each serve as a complement to Johnson's career as film director, playwright and novelist - his intense relationship to the experience of poetry as a method of immersing oneself in living as engaged in all five of these 'chapters'. As he writes in The Poet Holds His Future In His Hands, 'Tonight I looked at it… and they were veins under the skin, bloody great black veins! …there's no doubt that the pressure is on'.
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