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The stanza on the card was taken from "Poem in October." The image with the poem is a green leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the seventh reprinting of the book. Some of the 24 poems in the book deal with WWII. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The column of letters in this poem spell out "dylan" as an homage to bob dylan and dylan thomas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the 11th printing of the 1st edition of the book. Wikepedia comments: Under Milk Wood is a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas, later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. An all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub (which backwards is bugger all). They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.The fictional name Llareggub resembles other Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan- (meaning church), but is actually derived from reversing the phrase "bugger all". In early published...