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Limited edition of 300 copies.

Edited by Rob Roehm

Annotations by Rusty Burke

The following stories and poems are contained in the letters:

"The Campus at Midnight" (poem)

Untitled ("Slow shifts the sands of time . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("When Napoleon down in Africa . . .") (poem)

"Neolithic Love Song" (poem)

Untitled ("The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Now bright, now red, the sabers sped among the racing horde . . .") (poem)

"The Dook of Stork"

Untitled ("Bill Boozy was a pirate bold") (poem)

Untitled ("Out of Asia the tribesmen came") (poem)

Untitled ("A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs") (poem)

Untitled ("A hundred years the great war raged") (poem)

Untitled ("Palm-trees are waving in the Gulf breeze") (poem)

Untitled ("Hills of the North! Lavender hills") (poem)

Untitled ("Dark are your eyes") (poem)

"Slugger's Vow" (poem)

Untitled ("I am the spirit of War!") (poem)

Untitled ("I lay in Yen's opium joint") (poem)

"The Bombing of Gon Fanfew" (poem)

"The Sappious Few Menchew"

"The Post of the Sappy Skipper"

"The Bore of the Cowed"

"When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham" (poem)

Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed in to the ring . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("I tell you this my friend") (poem)

Untitled ("Mingle my dust with the burning brand") (poem)

Untitled ("Roses laughed in her pretty hair") (poem)

Untitled ("All the crowd") (poem)

"The Dancer" (poem)

"Destiny" (2) (poem)

"Laughter" (poem)

Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses") (poem)

Untitled ("The shades of night were falling faster") (poem)

Untitled ("Give ye of my best . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Early in the morning I gazed . . .") (poem)

"Eternity" (poem)

"Serpent" (poem)

"Shadows" (3) (poem)

"Destiny" (3) (poem)

"Adventure" (2) (poem)

"Libertine" (poem)

"Nun" (poem)

"Prude" (poem)

"Adventurer" (poem)

"Poet" (poem)

"Dancer" (poem)

"Dreamer" (poem)

"Sailor" (poem)

"Cowboy" (poem)

"Toper" (poem)

"Girl" (poem)

"Deeps" (poem)

"Thor" (poem)

"Mystic" (poem)

"Orientia" (poem)

"The Mountains of California" (poem)

"Monarchs" (poem)

"Lust" (poem)

"The Alamo" (poem)

"San Jacinto" (1) (poem)

"Romance" (2) (poem)

"Arcadian Days" (poem)

"Twilight on Stonehenge" (poem)

"Ocean-Thoughts" (poem)

"Revenge"

"Legend"

"Where Strange Gods Squall" (part 1)

Untitled ("Take some honey from a cat") (poem)

"The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts" (poem)

Untitled ("Against the blood red moon . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Toast to the British! . . .") (poem)

"Where Strange Gods Squall" (part 2)

Untitled ("What became of Waring?") (poem)

"The Robes of the Righteous" (poem)

Untitled ("After the trumps are sounded") (poem)

"The Road to Hell" (early version, only lines 1-4, 24-28) (poem)

"Flight" (early version, incomplete) (poem)

Untitled ("The Baron of Fenland . . .") (poem)

"The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu"

"Lilith" (poem)

"The Gods Remember" (1) (poem)

"The Dreams of Men" (poem)

"The Builders" (2) (poem)

"The Road to Babel" (poem)

"Memories" (2) (poem)

"Wolfsdung"

Untitled ("Keep women, thrones and kingly lands") (poem)

Untitled ("The world goes back to the primitive, yea") (poem)

Untitled ("I do not sing of a paradise") (poem)

Untitled ("Mother Eve, Mother Eve, . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("The east is red and I am dead") (poem)

"King Hootus"

"Symbols" (poem)

"Romany Road" (poem)

"Love" (poem)

"The Chant Demoniac" (poem)

"A Man" (poem)

"The Grey Lover" (poem)

"Life" (1) (poem)

Untitled ("A typical small town drugstore . . .")

"Keresa, Keresita" (poem)

"How to Select a Successful Evangelist" (poem)

"The Choir Girl" (poem)

"A Song of Cheer" (poem)

"Repentance" (poem)

Untitled ("I am MAN from the primal . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("The spiders of weariness . . .") (poem)

"The Dust Dance" (various portions from (2)) (poem)

Untitled ("Moses was our leader . . .") (poem)

"Secrets" (poem)

"The Dust Dance" (portions from (1)) (poem)

"The Chinese Gong" (poem)

Untitled ("Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain . . .") (poem)

"The Rump of Swift"

"A Young Wife's Tale" (poem)

"Lesbia" (poem)

"A Roman Lady" (poem)

Untitled ("They matched me up that night . . .") (poem)

"Song of a Fugitive Bard" (poem)

Untitled ("A cringing woman's lot . . .") (poem)

"Nights to Both of Us Known" (poem)

"Warning to Orthodoxy" (poem)

"The Ecstasy of Desolation" (poem)

"A Song of the Anchor Chain" (poem)

"The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore" (poem)

"Song from an Ebony Heart" (poem)

Untitled ("Swords glimmered up the pass") (poem)

"Rebellion" (poem)

"A Great Man Speaks" (poem)

"Yodels of Good Cheer to the Pipple, Damn Them" (poem)

Untitled ("He clutched his . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Noah was my applesauce") (poem)

Untitled ("Let me live as I was born to live") (poem)

Untitled ("Adam's loins were mountains") (poem)

"The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore" (poem)

"A Ballad of Insanity" (poem)

Untitled ("I hate the man . . .") (poem)

"A Far Country" (poem)

"Nancy Hawk, A Legend of Virginity" (poem)

Untitled ("Drawers that a girl . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Tumba Hooey")

"To a Nameless Woman" (poem)

Untitled ("Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight") (poem)

Untitled ("Old Faro Bill was a man of might") (poem)

Untitled ("Rebel souls from the falling dark") (poem)

"The Call of Pan" (poem)

Untitled ("A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne") (poem)

Untitled ("Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold") (poem)

Untitled ("Romona! Romona!") (poem)

"A Fable for Critics" (poem)

Untitled ("My brother he was an auctioneer") (poem)

"Flaming Marble" (poem)

Untitled ("Out in front of Goldstein's . . .") (poem)

"The Deed Beyond the Deed" (poem)

"An American" (poem)

Untitled ("There's an isle far away . . .") (poem)

"Shadow of Dreams" (poem)

"My Children" (poem)

Untitled ("The women come and . . .") (poem)

"Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" (poem)

"The Last Words He Heard" (poem)

Untitled ("Flappers flicker . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("I hold all women . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Love is singing soft and low") (poem)

"The People of the Winged Skull"

Untitled ("Oh, we are little children . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("The tall man answered: . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("The tall man rose and said: . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("The tall man said: . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Moonlight and shadows barred the land") (poem)

"Ancient English Balladel" (poem)

Untitled ("At the Inn of the Gory Dagger") (poem)

"The Case of the College Toilet"

Untitled ("And there were lethal women . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("A haunting cadence . . .") (poem)

Untitled ("Through the mists of silence . . .") (poem)

"The Mysteries (poem)

"Black Dawn" (poem)

"The Path of Strange Wanderers" (poem)

"At the Bazaar" (poem)

Untitled ("Hatrack!")

Untitled ("By old Abe Goldstein's . . .") (poem)

"Bastards All!"

"Songs of Bastards"

Untitled ("A beggar, singing without . . .") (poem)

"To a Roman Woman" (poem)

"Ivory in the Night" (poem)

Untitled ("The iron harp that Adam christened Life") (poem)

"To the Contended" (poem)

"High Blue Halls" (poem)

"An American Epic" (poem)

"Black Seas" (poem)

"Irony"