Hoyleman, Merle - Asp of the Age. First Edition of the Broadside

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress on bluish paper. 2pp. 40.5 x 30.2cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. "The Pittsburgh poet, who remains a largely enigmatic figure despite the efforts of both Jonathan Williams and James Laughlin to bring her work to a larger reading public. A substantial collection, which includes some portions of her work "Letters to Christopher," which Jonathan Williams attempted to publish as Jargon 47, but which ended up being distributed only in a tiny edition of 25 copies. Hoyleman claimed that many of the poems within were dictated to her by a collection of supernatural voices she called the Scum. .

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