LOVE & FAME

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. A stylistic breakthrough book for the poet following his award-winning Dream Song books and including his moving "Eleven Addresses to the Lord." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper "To Marcos/very affectionately/& gratefully for many favours--/Have a good summer!/John Berryman/Mpls/31 May 1971." Less than eight months later Berryman would commit suicide.