Author: Norris, Kathleen.
Title: Falling Off by Kathleen Norris. [with a Manuscript Stanza].
Description: Chicago: Big Table Publishing Company, (1971). (1971). CORRECTED & ANNOTATED WITH A NEW STANZA PENNED & INITIALED BY THE AUTHOR - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-3/16 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wrappers featuring a portrait of the author. The covers are lightly soiled and rubbed with minor light creases. 64 pages. Very good.

First edition, wraps issue of the poet's first book. Corrected with annotations by the author Kathleen Norris with the word "not" penned in by her to the 15th stanza of her poem "Excerpts from the Angel Handbook" (page 32), a checkmark at the top of page 15 and with a whole new stanza penned in by her to replace the first lines in the 3rd stanza of her poem "Space Walk / Self-Portrait". The new stanza reads "To my friends the birds who didn't leave town / this winter / Its better to dream, you go mad / if you don't dream / Some of us are afraid of colors, let alone / hospitals / And hotel rooms where everything has been purified by loneliness". Norris has initialed & dated the manuscript stanza at the top right corner of the page "K N / May 6, 71".

Volume Four in the Big Table Series of Younger Poets. Very good .

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