Abhorrences

Typographical card wrappers, designed by Barbara Martin. Black card endpapers and multicoloured title page. *** As usual with this publisher the book was published simultaneously in a limited hardcover edition (of 300 trade copies, 150 numbered and signed and 26 handbound copies) and in trade paperback. Our copy is the paperback edition. *** Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. The novelist Stephen King called Dorn’s poetry talismans of perfect writing” and quoted him in his own work.”