VERSE - Adelaide Crapsey, 1st 1915 - INVENTOR CINQUAIN FORM OF POETRY POEMS ELVES & GNOMES not price clipped

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From the beginning of his naval career he had been encouraged by his father to keep a journal

plus 14 pages of Advertisements b/w both volumes

One of the core foundation books which helped fostered the anti–Communism movement starting in the late 1940s by Major General Amos A

VERSE - Adelaide Crapsey, 1st 1915 - INVENTOR CINQUAIN FORM OF POETRY POEMS ELVES & GNOMES not price clippedVERSE Book Details + Condition: The Manas Press (Rochester, NY). First Edition, 1915. Hardcover. 95 pages. Measures 6. 5" x 5". Adelaide Crapsey is best remembered as the inventor of the cinquain form and as a poet whose compressed lyrics "are a remarkable testament of a spirit 'flashing unquenched defiance to the stars,'" as quoted in Boston Transcript. Though her mature work was published posthumously due to her untimely death at the age of 36,