ALVAREZ (AL) ALFRED The End of it (Dedication by the Author 1961)

POEMS BY A. ALVAREZ, ILLUSTRATIONS BY D. NICE and D. PAGE, the booklet is accompanied by Alvarez's September 1931 critical text 'English Poetry Today',pp. 9, form. 18.5 x 22.5, publisher's booklet binding, folds and dusty cover. Author's dedication dated 1961 on inside cover.

Alfred "Al" Alvarez - English poet, writer and critic of Jewish descent, best known for The Savage God, a meditation on literary suicide. If the title of his 1999 autobiography, Where Did It All Go Right? - the word that best sums up the life of writer, poet and critic Al Alvarez is "luck." However, there is a more appropriate four-letter word to describe the life he has chosen: "risk." Not for him a game of percentages. Alvarez, who died at the age of 90 from viral pneumonia, faced risks in his favorite pastimes - rock climbing and poker - and in his academic career without a permanent position .