AMERICAN
VDICES ...
BUYING THE WIND: Regional Folk–
lore in the United States
Richard M. Do,'son.
The first representative collection
of traditional American folklore collected "in the
field ." Taken directly from word-of-mouth recitals,
the book offers authentic samples of folklore from
seven regions-Coastal Maine, the Pennsylvania Ger–
mll-ns, the Southern Appalachian Mountaineers, the
Louisiana Cajuns, the Illinois 'Egyptians, the South–
west Mexicans, and the Utah Mormons. Comirtg in
February. Index.
$7.95
COLLECTED POEMS
Elder Olson.
This new volume includes many pub–
lished and unpublished poems which span Olson's
career from 1934 to the present. It also contains some
of the lyrics from
Plays and Poems
which
The Virginia
Quarterly Review
called "a brilliant gathering of
poems by a master of varied rhythms and of both
simple and rich diction."
PAUL ENGLE
says: "The
poems are often superb."
$6.50
Phoenix Paperback, $2.45
N EW AND SELECTED POEMS
Howard Nemerov.
Selections from
The Salt Ga1'den,
Mirrors and Windows, The Image and the Law,
and
Guide to the Ruins,
with additional poems not pre–
viously collected. "Any reader of poetry ... can read
these poems wjth pleasure for their elegance, the mar–
velous simplicity of their language, the unruffled
calm."-Peter Davidson,
Atlantic Monthly.
$3.50
Phoenix Paperback, $1.95
