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A Stack of Stock

Noel Stock

Published Toledo: Rue de Rome Press, 1994

Five books by stock, all privately printed. The first 3, Twenty-Eight Poems (1994, No. 8 of 50 copies, signed to the limited page, a further gift-inscription to ffep), Fourteen More (1995, No. 6 of 30 copies, unsigned) and Numbers XLIII-LX (1996, No. 7 of 40 copies, unsigned) complete his book, Numbers. Vespers (1999, unnumbered & unsigned) is a collection of poems, starting with a sequence of the same name. The last, Deo Gratias; Poems of Penitence and Praise (2005, unnumbered, with the author’s ms. correction to p.68, wear to front cover) is, as Stock writes in the gift inscription, “not a published book but cheap laser-printed ed. to send as text to publishers and a few friends and aquaintances.”

A large part of Stock’s Toledo publications, where he was a visiting professor, and the main corpus of his poetic output after a life as scholar and editor, mainly in the Poundian vein.