Collected Poems, 1930-1955

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245, [1] pp. 8vo. Barker was part of the New Apocalyptics movement, and his affair with Elizabeth Smart inspired her novel By Grand Central Station. "This volume will make possible a proper assessment of the scope and stature of Mr. Barker's work as a whole. For more than twenty years his poetry has been one of the most interesting and most remarkable features of the literary scene; and a collection of his work is, we feel, not only timely but overdue. The poems have been chosen and arranged by Mr. Barker himself." Show more