The Street and the Joint.

Bookseller Notes

Inscribed by the author on the title-page, to : 'Dear Robin, Because you're a poet and attractive, and rather interesting, and well in line with my ego trip[ - and because I want to share my urban blues with you, take this - my heart wrapped in my entrails - into your lap... Fritz'. Laid in are three further poems by Hamilton, two typescript and one manuscript, presumably sent to the same, and indeed with a more romantic bent to those in the collection itself - whose 'urban blues' derive from their origin in Hamilton's experience as a social worker in New York, recording the voices of those on the street and in 'the joint' (prison). The typescript poems, both dated August 20th 1970, have the author's Chicago address at the head, suggesting he had returned to the city of his birth after the period in New York during which these verses were written.A scarce collection; three holdings on WorldCat (SUNY, Kansas State, Transylvania University in Kentucky).