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snatched from the notebooks of W.H. Auden & now believed to be in the Morgan Library
"Originally published in the United States by Fuck you / a magazine of the arts."
Originally published in the United States in 1965 under title: The Platonic blow.
Authorship without authority: Auden denies any association with the poem ; Mr. H. Cahoon, of the Pierpont Morgan Library, denies that the Library has the original manuscript, and no manuscript of the poem is known to exist. cf. Bloomfield & Mendelson. W.H. Auden. 2d edition, 1972. Appx. 2.
Edition limited to 210 copies which were issued in violet paper wrappers, lettered in green.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.