The Wesleyan Poetry PrograDl
NEW TITLES
JOHN HAINES
Winter News
"The raw wildness of life around Alaska
is
trans–
formed, in these brief poems, into dreamlike vivid
images of dogs, winds, seas, winters, and the spirit
of man pitted against implacable silences. These
poems do not 'mean' or explain; they exist as complete fragments of a very
large, impersonal, icy universe in which human emotions are not unimportant
but slightly alien, part of the vaster movements of seasons and
animal
life. It
is a soothing and elevating viewpoint . . . and it conveys a marvelous sense of
the quietness, solitude, wonder and otherness still
to
be
found in countries
be–
yond
cities."-The Virginia Kirkus' Service
JOHN SILKIN
Poems New
and
Selected
He turned over on his side with his one year
Red as a wound
He turned over as if he could be sorry for this
And out of his eyes two great tears rolled, like stones,
and he died.
"His work is always moving, genuine, lovely. A distinguished
collection."-Th.,
Virginia Kirkus' Service
"Silkin is one of the very few writers to have appeared since the
war
who promises
to be an impor tant, rather than simply a 'good minor,' poet.... The world seen
through his work is challenging, perpetually broken and rebuilt, inexhaustible."
-ALAN PAGE,
writing of
Nature With Man,
(Chatto and Windus, 1965)
Poems New and Selected
is British poet Silkin's fifth collection,
his
first
to
be
produced in the United States.
Each
$4.00 cloth; $1.85 paper
Write for a complete listing of the thirty volumes constituting
The Wesleyan
Poetry Program.
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