Divorce

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VG, 1st ed, 1920. In green cloth, gilt title, edges, corners rubbed. Spine, faded, gilt tooling & titles. [4], 5-119 pp, [1], lacks dustjacket, 58 poems, light spotting to eps only. Divorce is Williams's third volume of poems, his third published book. The title requires explanation (especially as this book appeared three years after CW's marriage!). He is not referring to the dissolution of marriage bonds. Rather, he is referring to the soul's divorce from body and from its earthly ties as death approaches. Specifically, this book is dedicated to CW's father (and my other teachers), as Walter Williams struggled with the onset of blindness and physical decline.