Caresse crosby autobiography of a flea

As an early work, and one which reprints a significant number of selections from Sonnets for Caresse, by itself the volume is not especially illuminating: it is..

HARRY CROSBY is an advisory editor of transition.

  • HARRY CROSBY is an advisory editor of transition.
  • Press publishers and poets Harry and Caresse Crosby, quickly identified her as an important talent of their considerably talented literary generation.3.
  • As an early work, and one which reprints a significant number of selections from Sonnets for Caresse, by itself the volume is not especially illuminating: it is.
  • The publication of Tales Told of Shem and Shaun by the Black Sun Press resulted from a friendship with Harry and Caresse Crosby, connoisseurs of exoticism who.
  • Coolidge was a friend of Crosby's wife Caresse, who introduced them in 1923.

    • The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 1


    Born I was—but how, when, or where I cannot say; so I must leave the reader to accept the assertion " per se, " and believe it if he will. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walk—or perhaps, I should have said jump—in life, became possessed of the learning, observation and power of commit-ting to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate.

    I can only remind him that there are intelligences, little suspected by the vulgar, and laws in nature, the very existence of which have not yet been detected by the advanced among the scientific world.

    I have heard it somewhere remarked that my province was to get my living by blood sucking.

    I am not the lowest by any means of that universal fraternity, and if I sustain a precarious existence upon th