This is the current cover of the book
published first in nineteen sixty-two
by the blessèd Putnam Publishing Group,
available these days in paperback,
its retail price, just fourteen ninty-five.
Order yours at Amazon.com.
As for the cover photo obviously
it is of sunlight pouring through the glass
of a windowpane before which stands
or strides the blurry figure of a man
with semi-luminescent leg and knee,
it's hard to tell, obscured by light, maybe
he's trying to peer into infinity.
