The Murphy Stories
Mark Costello
" ... a rare, an excellent
gathering of stories. Clearly,
Costello is a first-rate talent."
-George Garrett, author of
Death of the Fox.
February $2.50
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The Scrawny Sonnets
and Other Narratives
Poems
by Robert 8agg
" I was dazzled and beguiled by
Robert 8agg's new book."–
~ames
Merrill. "He is a strong
and distinctive talent."–
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May $2.25
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Black Poets
of the United States
FROM PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
TO LANGSTON HUGHES
Jean Wagner
Translated by Kenneth Douglas
The only full-length study of
the major black poets of the
United States from early
slavery times through the
Harlem Renaissance. Includes
an updated bibliography.
" .. a monumental work."
-Langston Hughes.
$5.50 (Also in cloth, $15.00)
II
hi
University of
'+'
Illinois Press
URBANA CHICAGO LONDON
NOTES
DORIS LESSING recently com
pleted a lecture series on the craft
of writing at the New School for
Social Research . She has written
nineteen books; her new novel.
The Summer Before the Dark, will
be published by Knopf in May.
· .. EDWIN BROCK is a f.ormer
policeman and advertising man.
His first book of poems, Invisibility
Is the Art of Survival, was published
last year by New Directions.
COLIN FALCK, an English poet
and critic, edits The Review•.••
LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI is a Polish
exile who teaches at All Souls Col
lege, Oxford, England.... RAY-
MOND FEDERMAN's story "On
Jazz" is taken from a novel in
progress entitled Take
It
or Leave
It....
SANFORD CHERNOFF is
a young writer living in New York.
· . . BARBARA ROSE is working on
a film documentary about American
art. She is a contributing editor of
Artforum and The New York Times
Magazine•... ALICIA OSTRIKER
is editing a book on Blake for Pen
guin and finishing her second vol
ume of poems, A Faithful Woman.
· . . LEONARD MICHAELS re
cently returned from a six month
visit to France.... MORRIS WEITZ
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