New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1945. Hardcover first edition - The poet's first book, a volume from the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Foreword by Archibald Macleish, who notes that this is a book by a soldier, dedicated to soldiers but not a war book, rather a witness to war. At the time this was published, Butler was still serving in the Air Force in England. 61 pp.