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The scan-verified title page presents Cracking Of The Mirror as poems by Jack J. Smith, with an inductory poem and drawing by Will Thomas.

The page formally frames the collection as a collaboration between text and image. The misspelled or idiosyncratic INDUCTORY wording gives the title page a handmade, small-press character even before the poems begin.

The title page names the book 'CRACKING OF THE MIRROR', 'POEMS BY JACK J. SMITH', with an 'INDUCTORY POEM AND DRAWING BY WILL THOMAS'. The idiosyncratic 'INDUCTORY' and the paired drawing give the page a handmade, small-press character and frame the collection as a two-handed collaboration of text and image before a single poem of Smith's own is read.