TWO POEMS (1).
£20.00
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
9.8 x 8.6cm, 4pp artist’s postcard that show a drawing of mouthwash bottles on the front by gary Hincks. Inside is a poem by Finlay:
Des Esseintes
The muddied
colours of
the mouthwash
cocktails
Jean des Esseintes is a fictional character in a novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans. The character hates the modern world and lives an eccentric, reclusive life in an aesthetic of his own making. Presumably Finlay dislikes the plastic fuctionalism of mouthwash bottles. VG+.
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