Permit me refuge

x, 46p., limited to a 1,000 copies, first edition, very good condition in an unclipped and edgeworn dj with a 1.5 inch closed tear along the spine. Sociologist David Wellman's copy, with his ownership signature and rubberstamp on free front endpaper and rubberstamps on fore-edge, top and bottom edges of textblock, half-title, title page, and acknowledgments page. "Rolfe, it should be noted, is one of the politically committed poets whose work largely meets New Critical standards for producing formally coherent, metaphorically inventive, fully realized, and self-sufficient poems. That he is almost wholly excluded from our cultural memory demonstrates that political--not merely purportedly disinterested aesthetic--criteria have helped determine what poets we honor in our texts and literary histories." *Cary Nelson in his book Repression and recovery, modern American poetry and the politics of memory, 1910-1945 - p. 114.