Christopher Logue’s copy of Trax, its first appearance in the Hudson Review, Vol. VI No. 4 (Winter 1954), annotated throughout,

ouch!

oh no! no!

no, it don’t work / it jest don’t.

with further questions of choice, voice, comparison to the Cantos, ticks and scores and other marks. An important document of Pound’s influence on Logue, whose PAX is until proven otherwise the greatest sequence of poetry to glide across the azimuth of Pound’s wake.

With a laid-in poem in Logue’s hand on a thin, faded piece of green paper which has left offsetting to p. 558-9, that reads

amid the dead is no servitude
      nor do they labour
That is their loss, and after
    doom of eternal as memory.
Love is a labour
    but unrepaid
      a servitued
Even in death
    all unrepaid
      one loves another
And fails that part
    the other is lost
        forever—
        forever—

Love is no evil
  but the mind cannot suffer
    the pain of the body
      which lives in the mind
        only—
        only—

On the last page of the review Logue writes, “Music added to music foot through dance,” and on the rear cover, “Ether upon masked lips open to furious langue?[?]” Logue’s name to front-cover. The price “400 F” suggesting French distribution. Wraps lightly toned and folded, front cover lifting.