For Lizzie and Harriet

First UK edition. Sm. 8vo. 48pp. Publisher's light grey cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust jacket illustration by Sidney Nolan.

A short sequence of sonnets which includes some of the poems – "in another order, in other versions" Mr. Lowell writes in the Author's note, p. [7] – from the verse journal published as Notebook, 1967–68 and many new poems documenting the break-up of his "emotionally harrowing" marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick.

Lightly rubbed dust jacket, else Fine.