Long Live Man.

£2,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

inscribed to Jean Seberg and Romain Gary - with the author's personal corrections An exceptional association copy, with autograph corrections and additions to seven poems, inscribed by the author in blue ink to the title page: 'For Jean, my only movie star - whose humanness celluloid were at a loss to render unreal and for Romain, a fellow singer, and spirit - love, Gregory P.S. This is the only copy in which I have made personal corrections - surely when you see the completion of a film you've made you wish you could have done some scenes differently - so the same for poems + the poet - I feel this book to be my finest work - mine "Breathless" + " Roots of Heaven" - on spirit I always hold you + Romain fondly + well - Romain helped me when I was in dire need once - you both did.' This inscription is accompanied by a long note written after the last poem in the collection, Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday: 'a poem like this shouldn't be too long, or talk too much, I feel – yet I hate to omit anything so truly heartfelt – but it makes no difference – to end it – the world owes me a million dollars is happy. Tongue in cheek, audacity – to continue it as I do is to crowd too much feeling into a single poetry – like old letters, I can't stand to read my yesterday's poems – Basta – the poesy to follow this can't help but be goodly wisely compassionate expressions of heart and spirit – whoops! I just remembered that the world only owes me 999,900 dollars as Romain once bestowed

• Binding: Hardcover

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