SONGS FOR THE UNBORN SECOND BABY, by Alice Notley

United Artists, 1979, First edition, 750 pp., Stapled wraps

Fine

Notley's first book-length poem, written during her pregnancy with her second son, Edmund Berrigan, It heralds a missing tradition of poems about pregnancy and motherhood, and marks the consolidation of Notley's feminism.

Cover illustration by George Schneeman.