With an air of Clara d’Ellébeuse,

    — Canto XXVII

Clara d’Ellébeuse wakes up yawning against her naked arm, eternally young and already dead; at 16 she commits suicide, an imitation & repeat of a family fate, driven by love and curiosity. A little music, Pound’s choice, as compliment. Possibly the first edition, a very French publication, pocketable in yellow wraps, but in rather fragile condition with the binding only just holding and significant chipping from the paper on the spine. With a small handwritten note laid-in from A. David Moody noting other works in which Jammes mentions Clara.