ROOT, E. Merrill

Lost Eden

New York: The Unicorn Press, 1927. Cloth-backed boards, paper label. 125 p. 2nd printing. Library stamp on top edges; else very good. [27081]

Volume of poems, some of which appeared in the "New Masses," "The Modern Quarterly" and the "Workers' Daily." Titles include "War," "Il Duce," "Suicide: Put of a Job," "R.O.T.C.," "Amendment to the Lord's Prayer," etc. Root in later life moved from the Left to the extreme Right, becoming a spokesman for groups such as the John Birch Society.

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