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Four drafts, including a photocopy of an early draft with holograph corrections in Corso's hand; two typed drafts, one with corrections and notations; a photocopy of the final draft noted in the margin of the first leaf as "Final draft, First Copy" and signed and dated by Corso.

Also included are three original drawings by Corso intended as illustrations for the poem. Each 8x10 or the reverse and removed from a spiral bound sketch book. Unpublished. [Note: The manuscript version of this poem appears in the 1983 Paris notebooks of Corso which are offered elsewhere in this catalogue.] Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32.