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PRIMAL VISION
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Gottfried Benn
The first presentation in Eoglish of the writings-poetry, short stories,
essays-of an important German modern. Edited, with an introduction
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75
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E. B. Ashton.
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ANERCA / Edmund Carpenter, oditor
Eskimo poems, moving for their emotional depth and simplicity, pre-
sented with Eskimo drawings colIected by the late Robert Flaherty.
$2.75
THE HAPPY BIRTHDAY OF DEATH / Gregory Corso
New poems by a leading HBeat Generation"
s~kesman
who records his
perceptions with a bursting vitality. H.•• a scientific master of mad mouth–
fuls of language" (AlIen Ginsberg).
ND Paperbook Original, $1.20
CAN THESE BONES LIVE / Edward Dahlberg
A new edition of Dahlberg's book of apocalyptic criticism-Ha work of
literature of the highest order" (AlIen Tate). With illustrations by the
brilliant young artist, James Kearns.
$3.50
HER / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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In this first novel the author of
A Coney Island 01 the Mind
employs a new narra–
tive method and probes into a new perception of reality as opposed to the evidences of
the lenses.
Hardbound, $3.00
ND Paperbook, $1.25
JAMES JOYCE / Harry Levin
A newly revised and augmented edition of Professor Levin'. brilIiant critical guide
to the work of James Joyce-Hthe best introduction
to
Joyce that has yet been written"
(New Statesman).
ND Paperbook, $1.45
BECAUSE IT IS / Kenneth Patchen
In these comic, disturbing poe= and drawings Kenneth Patchen creates a special
universe of fantastic revelation.
ND Paperbook Original, $1.25
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / John Cowper Powys
A reissue of the major English writer's uninhibited self-portrait- Ha book authenti–
cating its author's claim to something like 'terrifying and formidable geuius'"
(Tim..
Litlrary Supplem,nt).
$4.75
SELECTED WORKS, VOL. I: Prose / Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke's major prose
works- The
Lay
01 the Love and Death 01 Cornet Christoph
Rilke,
the famous study of Rodin and many shorter pieces. Translated by G. Craig
Houston. Introduction by]. B. Leishman.
$3.25
SELECTED WORKS, VOL. II : Poetry/Rainer Maria Rilke
The first one-volume presentation of
alI
of Ri1ke's important
~try.
The Book 01
Hours, Requiem, The Lile 01 the Virgin Mary, Duino Elegies
and
Sonnets
10
Orpheus
in
their entirety and liberal selections from
The Book 01 Images, New Poems
and
Poems
1906-26.
Translated by J. B. Leishman.
$6.00
THE DARK AND THE LIGHT / Elio Vittorini
Two superb studies of women,
Erica
and
La
CaribaIdina,
by the author of
In Sicily.
Translated by Frances Keene.
$3.75
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