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EBERHART
SELECTED POEMS 1930-1965 by Richard Eberhart_ This paperbound
volume represents work chosen from all of Richard Eberhart's earlier
volumes, from
A Bravery of Earth
(1930) to
The
Quarry
(1964), together
with some previously unpublished poems. Man and nature, never divisible,
are his chief themes, to which he brings a metric subtlety and a power
of phrase and image uniquely his own.
ND Paperbook 198, $1.75
KAUFMAN
SOLITUDES CROWDED WITH LONELINESS by Bob Kaufman. There
is deep excitement in the originality and power of Bob Kaufman's poems.
The world of jazz, social protest, and the plight of the lonely one fighting
the crowd are among the subjects of this young American Negro--but
anything
he chooses to write about comes vividly, almost violently alive
in the highly-charged language of this remarkable poet.
ND Paperbook 199, $1.50
MERTON
GANDHI ON NON-VIOLENCE edited, with an introduction, by Thomas
Merton. For this original paperbook, Thomas Merton has selected the basic
statements of principle and interpretation which made up Gandhi's phil–
~sophy
of non-violence. In his long introduction, Father Merton shows how
Gandhi linked the thought of East and West in his search for universal
truth, relating Gandhi's
Ahimsa
to traditional Hindu
Dlu:L1"ma,
to the
Greek and our own concepts of personal freedom, and to the thinking of
Thomas Aquinas and later theologians on conscience, good-and-evil, and
peace.
ND Paperbook 197, $1.50
MONTALE
SELECTED POEMS of Eugenio Montale. A bilingual edition edited, with
an introduction, by Glauco Cambon; various translators. Although Eugenio
Montale has published in his lifetime but three slender volumes of poetry,
their quality has been such as to win him acknowledged preeminence in
Italy today and a world-wide reputation among his peers, the poets of
other countries. This first American edition of his work presents selections
from each of the three published books, with the original Italian and Eng–
lish translation
en face.
Clothbound, $5.00
ND Paperbook 193, $1.75
POUND
A LUME SPENTO and Other Early Poems by Ezra Pound.
A
Lume
Spento
was Pound's first book of poems, published in a limited edition of
100 copies in 1908, and long a rare collector's item. His second book,
A
Quinzaine for This Yule,
was brought out for Christmas, 1908, and is per–
haps even more rare. Both are reprinted here for the first time, along with
ten previously unpublished poems also dating from his "Venetian period,"
and recently re-discovered.
A Lume Spento
includes facsimile pages from
the original books and a little-known photograph of Pound taken about
1908.
Clothbound, $5.00
REICHEK
ETCETERA: A Book .of Drawings by Jesse Reichek. In this book, which
has no words, only pictures, the San Francisco artist Jesse Reichek
achieves a kind of "narrative experience" in purely visual terms, through a
sequence of abstract drawings whose forms modulate from one to the
next. Saul Bellow has said of Reichek, "He shows us the bonds of matter,
tangle and clarity, form on the border of
chaos~.equilibrium
which only
just succeeds in maintaining itself."
.N
D Paperbook 196, $1.60
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