Songs of the Underworld by Clem Yore, 1914.

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First edition of this collection of poems focused on the lives of society’s outcasts and downtrodden in 1914 America, including sex workers and abused women caught in cycles of vice, addiction, and exploitation by violent or predatory men, e.g, “The Women Who Walk,” “Down at the Corner,” “The Worn Out Woman, ”and “Chung Ho Lo and Mary,” a tale of opium addiction. The author laments “the ceaseless war between the sexes.” An attractive copy.

Price: $45.00