DREAMING AS ONE by Lewis Warsh with jacket illustration by Joe Brainard

Corinth Books, 1971, First edition, 87 pp., 5 1/2" X 7 3/4", Hardcover

Very good

“This was my first full-length collection of poems. Ted Wilentz, publisher of Corinth, asked me for a book while I was living in Bolinas. I returned to New York for three months, October–December 1970, and we worked on it then. I was living on the top floor of Kenward Elmslie’s house on Greenwich Avenue, and Ted and his wife Joan, who designed the book, lived a few blocks away on Perry Street. Then I returned to California and continued to work on the book, adding more recent poems like ‘What I Learned This Year.’ The book contains poems from 1966–’71, and Joe Brainard did a bright yellow cover. The one poem I omitted was ‘The Suicide Rates’—it was time to move on. The book is dedicated to Anne Waldman.” (LW)