A gobble poem
Subtitle: snatched from the notebooks of W.H. Auden & now believed to be in the Morgan Library
By: W.H. Auden
Publisher: Fuck Books Unlimted
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Platonic blow.
Notes: "First English printing."

"Originally published in the United States by Fuck you / a magazine of the arts."

First published in the United States in 1965 under title: The Platonic blow.

Authorship without authority: Auden denies any association with the poem ; Mr. H. Cahoon, of the Pierpont Morgan Library, denies that the Library has the original manuscript, and no manuscript of the poem is known to exist. cf. Bloomfield & Mendelson. W.H. Auden. 2d ed., 1972. Appx. 2.

Edition limited to 210 copies which were issued in violet paper wrappers, lettered in green.