"A version of this poem (minus the twelfth and twenty-ninth stanzas) appeared originally in the New Yorker; the expanded text is printed here for the first time"--P. [6].
"This first edition ... is limited to 300 copies [in grayish red paper wrappers], numbered 1-300 ... and twenty-six hardbound copies, lettered A-Z, which are not for sale."--Colophon.