LEFT UNDER A CLOUD. (SIGNED)

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 112. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Signed on the title page as Jean Calais, Rodefer's pen name (uncommon signed thus - he wrote 'Villon' under the name, Jean Calais) including an inked correction on page 41 in his hand (an inserted note reads: 'The Eagle', Cambridge, 28th April 2001, over a beer or two). Stephen Rodefer (1940 Ð 2015) was an American poet and painter who lived in Paris and London. Born in Bellaire, Ohio, he knew many of the early beat and Black Mountain poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley. Rodefer was one of the original Language poets and taught widely. Fine in fine dust jacket.