In 1968, his third book, "The Ends of the Earth", was published by Black Sparrow Press. It was the beginning of a twenty-three-year partnership that produced eleven of his books. The poems in this book have a ghostly tone. It is as though Cocteau was doing a very detailed description of Bromige's life. The change apparent in his fifth book, "Threads", is startling. It reads as though the ghostly presences from "The Ends of the Earth" had fleshed out and learned to speak a language from the various lives whose talk fills the book.