Black to Black and Other Poems by Kenneth Grant.
Carfax, London, 1963. Limited edition. 31 pages, dustjacket white lettering on black. This copy is signed by Kenneth Grant.All pages clean. Book very good condition in very good condition dustwrapper.
This is the first volume of poetry published by Kenneth Grant. It consists of fifteen poems, all of which were later republished in Convolvulus: Poems of Love and the Other Darkness (Starfire Publishing, London, 2006).
From the author's prefaratory Note to the poems:
Prose is a record of experience, whereas all real poetry is experience itself, both for the poet and his reader. Where prose achieves this quality it is no longer prose, but poetry, regardless of its form or structure.
Poetry is therefore a means of knowing Reality - it is direct experience - and this Reality does not consist in what is experienced but in the act of experiencing itself. Similarly, it matters little of what we are conscious; the object of consciousness has value only insofar as it proves the presence of consciousness. Likewise, poetry has an arbitrary content, being an experience of Reality on levels which transcend the contingent, such as the actual content of the poem, its structure, and accidental accessories conditioned by time and place. Potry is the means of experience as well as being the experience itself, in the same sense that the Prajna and the Upaya are identical.
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