The Energy of Slaves - UK 1st
1972
$77.00
First UK edition first impression in near fine condition, there is a previous owner inscription to the front endpage, no other internal ,markings, pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has some very minor wear, now in removable protective sleeve.
The Energy of Slaves
Another excursion into the anti-art mode, insisting that "The poems don't love us any more," and heading each page with a small black razor blade. Some of the poems are slight throwaways, but by and large this collection has "aged" better than the more flamboyant Flowers for Hitler: its tone of mordant irony and self-criticism has a purity to it that retains (like a razor blade) its cutting edge.
