Easter Rising 1967
London: Restif Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Paperback. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Bound in stiff plumb-colored wraps, stapled. Number 46 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Fine. Item #1619 First published in London Magazine, this is the first printing. "and the smell of the lilac has turned to shit in my nostrils/And yellow sweet retsina tastes like urine/... Lord I have no newspapers/The state has cut out my eyes/Lord he radio tells lies." A clean, fresh copy.
A nine-part poem by Richard Burns written under the the nom-de-plume Agnostos Nomolos as a response to the far-right Greek junta of April 1967. The overthrow, prior to elections in which Georgios Papandreou was favored to win, culminated in several years in which civil liberties were quashed, and imprisonment and torture of political opponents was commonplace. Burns, then resident in Greece, had the poem smuggled to London, where its reception anticipated the brutality of the tinpot colonels.
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