Richard Aldington

Penultimate Poetry (1914)

The apparition of these poems in a crowd:
White faces in a black dead faint.

For an overview of Aldington’s Japanese interests see Richard Aldington and Japan in the Bibliography. ‘Penultimate Poetry’ (BB1) appeared in Egoist 1 (January 1914), p. 36.

Aldington’s verse is out of print in the UK, but in the US Collected Poems is available here, An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington here. Other in-print titles that include material related to Aldington’s Japanese interests are Passionate Prodigality: Letters to Alan Bird from Richard Aldington (BB17, available in the UK here) and Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters (BB19, available in the UK here, the US here).