Cecelia Holland
RAKOSSY. A novel about the Turk-Magyar wars
in 1525 by the author of
The Firedrake,
of which
Conrad Aiken said, "No historical novel has so
enthralled me since
The Brook Kerith
by George
Moore ... a dazzling achievement."
$5.75
Jordan Crittenden
BALLOONS ARE AVAILABLE. A succession of
maniacally Absurd episodes charting the continuous
if
uncertain progress of a reluctant rake, and reveal·
ing the grotesque and lunatic underside of the mun–
dane American world.
$4.50
Anthony Hecht
&
John Hollander
JIGGERY·POKERY.
A Compendium of Double
Dactyls.
Drawings by Milton Glaser. Light verse
forms are as rare as griffons, so
it
is with considerable
pride that two distinguished poets present this
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successor to the Limerick and the Clerihew.
$3.95
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1"\~Katherine
Hoskins
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~XCURSIONS.
N.cw and. Selected
P~e~.
"It's a
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JOY
to have Kalhenne Hoskll1s' many bnlliant poems
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now gathered and selected into one volume. ,She has
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a large ease with words and a rich sensibility. How
much better she is than so many poets very much
more famousl In these new poems, I suspect she has
made her supreme accomplishment."-RoBERT
LOW–
ELL.
$5.00 cloth; $2.45 paper
Raymond Queneau
THE BLUE FLOWERS. A startling and dazzling
tour de force by an erudite and virtuoso writer, this
sort·of-novel is written in what is undoubtedly the
juiciest French since Villon; the word plays, puns
and sly jokes have been kept amazingly and glitter–
ingly intact in Barbara Wright's translation. $5.00
George Steiner
LANGUAGE AND SILENCE. This collection of
essays touches on such diverse themes as the tragic
role of Trotsky and the poetry of Sylvia Plath on
the art of Homer and the meaning of Kafka. But
underlying its wide scope is the ideal of "Humane
Literacy" - the belief that the inhuman character
of recent history and the erosions of literacy in our
present culture have put in question our whole
humanistic tradition.
$8.00
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