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The title page names At The Edge Of The Riddle as poems by Jack Joseph Smith.

The author presents the volume under a title about approaching a riddle. The page supplies a genre and a byline, without identifying the riddle itself.

The title page presents 'At The Edge Of The Riddle' as poems by Jack Joseph Smith, set out on three widely spaced typed lines.

The title places the whole collection at a threshold rather than inside an answer. The sparse layout, title, genre word and byline, gives nothing away about what the riddle is.