ERTOLT BRE£BT
to
quote H. R. Bays (writing in "Tomorrow"), "one of the few geniuses of our
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In exile, he has continued to produce significant works, and, more than anyone
of his generation, he promises to bulk large in the post-war period." Brecht's
ATE LIFE OF THE MASTER RACE ($2.50) is a unique book-unique as modern
of a new kind and unique as a revelation of what Fascism actually does to the
,eople who have to live under
it.
Eric Russell Bentley, the translator, has added an
euellent critical essay on Brecht and his work.
RI£BARD EBERHART
II one of the best of our younger American poets. New Directions has just published
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POEMS, NEW
&
SELECTED ($1.00), which offers the poet's most recent work,
llduding a long poem, "Triptych," together with a few of the finest poems from
tlrlier volumes. It
is
an impressive collection.
KENNETH. REXROTH
... written the most important long philosophical poem that has appeared in this
MDtry
in a number of years.
It
is the title piece in his book THE PHOENIX
&
THE
TORTOISE ($2.50), which also includes a fine group of poems on erotic themes in
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classical tradition and some expert paraphrases of Latin and Greek poets. "This
ftlume with its searching intensity, its rich consciousness of structure in language,
ad
its powerful, almost apocalyptic view of love is not only worthy of serious study
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capable, as well, of yielding much immediate pleasure."-New York Tribune.
RAFAEL ALBERTI
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modern Spanish poet, friend of Lorca, and considered by many critics a writer
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equal stature, is now an exile, living in the Argentine. A selection of his poetry,
JIPresenting each of his periods, from the early ma·rine poems, through Surrealism,
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the social poems of the War in Spain, has been ably translated for American readers
fir
Lloyd Malian. SELECTED POEMS of Rafael Alberti ($1.00).
r i VE POETS
Ill
the
few months which have elapsed since the publication of FIVE YOUNG
AliERICAN POETS-1944 ($3.00) the book has taken on literary importance throu.gh
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critical praise meted out by the best critics to the young poets here first presented•
.him
Frederick Nims, Tennessee Williams, Jean Garrigue, Eve Merriam ••• these
ue names we will hear much of in the years to come, and the volume promises to be
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nluable collector's item.
NEW DIRE£TIONS
II the publisher of all of these books, and of many others, which, like these, represent
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elfort of serious writers to keep alive in a literary scene increasingly polluted by
-ercialism the best traditions of literature. Write to New Directions, 67 West
"- New York City-18, for a free complete catalog,
