{"product_id":"auden-w-h-the-gobble-poem","title":"AUDEN, W. H. The Gobble Poem","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003ePirated Auden Erotica in England\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUDEN, W. H.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gobble Poem A Gobble Poem. Snatched from the Notebooks of W.H. Auden \u0026amp; Now Believed to be in the Morgan Library … First English Printing [\u003ci\u003eWrapper\u003c\/i\u003e:] The Gobble Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Stapled as issued in purple wrappers printed in green; ff. [1], 5, text to rectos only; title with profile illustration of a depicted from the neck down; spine slightly sunned, slight wear to extremities; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePirated second English printing (purportedly the first) of W. H. Auden’s erotic poem about a spontaneous sexual encounter with a twenty-four-year-old mechanic, first published in the \u003ci\u003eFuck You Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in New York in 1965.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd Sanders, the founder of  \u003ci\u003eFuck You Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, allegedly obtained a copy of the typescript from an employee of the Morgan Library, reproducing it in vol. 5, no. 8, of the maga-zine of the Fuck You Press without Auden’s permission (under the title ‘The Gobble Poem’), with cover illustrations by Andy Warhol, publishing it separately as ‘The Platonic Blow’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf this edition, ‘copies which were put together first have light violet […] card covers, but when this stock was exhausted vivid green […] card covers were used’ (Bloomfield \u0026amp; Men-delson).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomfield \u0026amp; Mendelson, pp. 367–68.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124853\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57386283958649,"sku":"2124853","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124853.jpg?v=1780650314","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/auden-w-h-the-gobble-poem","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}