This pamphlet, the title of which might be translated as “A Necklace of Chamber Pots”, was Bunting's first collection, gathering some thirteen poems written between 1925 and 1929. Only a few copies seem to survive. It was reviewed by Bunting's friend Louis Zukofsky in

in June 1931 but seems to have gone otherwise unnoticed. The most substantial work included was 'Villon', a poem in three sections which incorporates material adapted from

(in something like the way Pound had used Propertius in his

and which Bunting described, in a letter to Pound, as “a study, story, what-you-will, of a state of mind engendered by incipient D.T. plus influenza plus a clubbing from the French Police”). Bunting's drafts were edited by Pound. The best of

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