JOHNSON, B.S. Poems Two. London: Trigram Press. 1972.
Tall 8vo. Black and white photographic in laminated paper wrappers with green endpapers; pp. [10], 11-61, [1]; 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 compliment 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'. B.S. Johnson would commit suicide just one year after this publication.
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