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newspapers, comics and so on. Hero pursues action-packed and pun–
filled episodes in his role of "teller" (of poems and money, natch),
ringing up American dreams from John Coltrane to Nagasaki. Finish–
ing o'erwearied, I am of two minds. Mind One: this is a spectacular
and brilliant book, and how Harmon manages to sustain his manic
vitality throughout his "Thirty-four Fits" I cannot imagine. Mind Two:
THE ILLUSION
An Essay on Pol itics, The atre and the Novel
Da vid Caute. "Co ntemporary socialism perhaps owes him a cerlain
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TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
AND OTHER ESSAYS
Aldous Huxley. "Mr. Huxley is the sole contemporary amphibian to
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&
Nation
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PROFESSIONAL SECRETS
An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau
Drawn from his Lifetime Writings by Robert Phelps. Tran slated by
Richard Howard . "Everything is concise and bright. and nearly
everything is affectionate."-The Ne w Yorker
CN/255 $3.25
THE DUINO ELEGIES
R. M. Ril ke. Translated by Stephen Garmey and Harold Wilson.
"Reverent, scrupulous-keeping the mood and selective ness of the
original."-MARIANNE MOORE
CN/254 $1.95 Cloth TLE/ 64 $6.00
LOVE AND PROTEST
Chinese Poems from the Sixth Century B.C . to th e Seventeenth
Century A.D. Edited and Translated by John Scott. "An English
friend once complained to me: 'The trouble with Chinese ve rse is that
it all sounds alike.' One of the ambitions of this book is to attempt
to dispel such impressions."-From t he Introduction
CN/261 $1.95
THE IMAGINATION OF AN INSURRECTION
Dubl in, Easter 1911>
William Irwin
imaginotion.
o ne will read
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