Typed poem "An Hour," beneath a facsimile of the poem in manuscript, signed and dated Jan 4, 1992 by the author in blue ink together with five handwritten lines in which he writes that "A piece of writing has a lasting importance if a person who writes has undergone a sufficient internal transformation and as a result knows what is important in life and what is less." An interesting item from the Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.Folds, else fine.