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Significant New Books from the
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
THE SLEEPING GYPSY
and Other Poems by George Garrett.
Drawings by Jo Alys Downs.
This is an important collection of poems by one of America's most exciting
young writers, winner in 1958 of the Prix de Rome. Of the poems in THE
SLEEPING GYPSY, Babette Deutsch in the
N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Re-
view
says: " . . . he has a gift for the unhabitual metaphor that quickens what-
ever he touches.... A savage honesty,a finely ironic wit.... This is a book
to read and reread."
$2.50
A COAT FOR THE TSAR
A Brief Novel
fry
R ichard Elman.
A brooding, compelling story of life and death in the ghetto of Brest-Litovsk.
Elman's swiftly etched word pictures of Imperial Russia are emphasized by
Bubi Jessen's beautiful line drawings. Both effectively recreate the locale where
a young Russian deserter resolves his conflict between the necessity for expiation
of his crime and the urge to escape to a new life in America.
$2.50
DOG GHOSTS
and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales by
J.
Mason
Brewer. Illustrated by John Biggers. Foreword by Chapman
J.
Milling.
America's leading Negro folklorist has assembled another entertaining collection
of dialect tales in a book which
J.
Frank Dobie says excels his earlier success
The Word on the Braz;os.
The title
Dog Ghosts
is drawn from the unique stories
of dog spirits collected by Dr. Brewer in the Red River bottoms and elsewhere
in Texas.
September
150 pp.
Illustrated
$3.95
THE SINGING MOUNTAINEERS
Songs and Tales of the
Quecha People. Collected by Jose Maria Arguedas. Btiited with an
introduction by R uth Stephan. Drawings
by
Donald Weismann .
Thirty hauntingly pure songs and nine remarkable tales of the Quecha people,
the "singing mountaineers" of Peru and heirs of the Incas, are made available
in English for the first time in this genuinely beautiful and charming book.
"This attracitve little book represents a lot of imaginativ.e work."-N.Y. Herald
Tribune
$3.75
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
AUSTIN 12., TEXAS
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