The Marble Faun and A Green Bough

Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry:  The Marble Faun  (1924) and  A Green Bough  (1933).   “These are primarily the poems of youth and a simple heart. They are the poems of a mind that reacts directly to sunlight and trees and skies and blue hills, reacts without evasion or self-consciousness. They are drenched in sunlight and color as is the land