The Sterile Honeycomb: 50th Anniversary Edition

About The Sterile Honeycomb: 50th Anniversary Edition:

Arthur Axlerod's posthumously published poetry, first issued in 1975, 50 years later, Manjushri Press is re-issuing the book of poetry with a Foreword by Robert Creeley and Arthur's exquisite and heart-wrenching poetry.
 
From Robert Creeley's Foreword:

'My first meeting with Arthur must have been in Ed Budowski's Student Bookstore on Main Street across from the university. In 1966, that bookstore was a center for a lot of people, particularly for the poets local or visiting. Ed told me that Arthur was even at that time an habitue, first brought by his parents, but subsequently arriving on his own to check out the new books and to meet the divers visitors. I was impressed and intimidated often by his encyclopaedic knowledge of contemporary poetry – or call it simply poetry, because his range of information even at that early age wasn't limited simply to what was topical or in style. No doubt at first I must have felt him some quirky, diminutive kid, reveling in poets the same way one might in football stars or opera singers. But the more we talked, the more I learned that his commitment and clarity were facts of his life, not tokens of a time in it. The first poems of his own that he showed me (some of which will be found here necessarily, whether or not he himself would have included them) were characteristically young man poems, concerned with all the old young problems in an expectedly usual way.'