Word Rain (or A Discursive Introduction to the Intimate Philosophical Investigations of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O It Says)

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover, unpaginated., 6 x 8 inches

Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Jacket somewhat dust soiled, worn, and toned.

Poems by the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic San Juan de la Cruz, more commonly known as St. John of the Cross. This copy opens with the essay "A lo divino" by Robert Graves where he discusses St. John's "ecstatic love caught and preserved in a poem" and the influence of such authors as Rumi and Ramon Llull on St John.  Poems in Spanish with English translation on adjacent page.