The New York Wits : The Pamphlet Poets

Simon and Schuster

New York, NY

(c)1927

The New York Wits: The Pamphlet Poets published by Simon & Schuster in 1927. It’s a chapbook, a paperback chapbook as chapbook-y as any I have ever heard or written about. They did exist before the 1940s. In the same dimensions and staple-boundness and everything. Wow. So now my “starting point” for poetry chapbooks goes back even 2 decades earlier. I seem to also remember another early one I have written about, not bubbling to the surface right now but it might later. 

Note the back cover image and the list of poets involved in the selection of the poems included. I am aware of some of these men, as old men, but here they are much younger and in demand. The logo is even different. The Press was 3 years old when this "pamphlet" came out. Quite the find (am keeping it)