NEW POETRY FROM
(And a Distinguished Book of
Art
Criticism)
W. S. Merwin
THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS OF POEMS.
Includes the complete texts of A
Mask
for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts
and
The Drunk in the
Furnace;
all of the work of this major poet is now in print.
Clothbound, $12.50 ; paperback, $5 .95
Howard Moss
BURIED CITY.
This outstanding new book of poems is Howard Moss's first
since his
Selected Poems
received the National Book Award in 1972. It con–
tains 24 new poems, several of some length .
Clothbound, $6.95
John N. Morris
THE LIFE BESIDE THIS ONE.
A book of mordant and moving poems by the
author of
Green Business,
of which Vernon Young , in
The Hudson Review
said ,
"These are the poems of a man intent on climbing out of himself; when he
emerges he may be among the most rewarding poets of his country."
Clothbound, $7.95
Richard Howard
FELLOW FEELINGS.
The poems in Richard Howard's new book are various in
their method, but single in their dramatic application. They articulate his "fellow
feelings" to those other makers, writers and painters (Auden, Hart Crane,
Magritte, Giovanni Bellini) , for style and act.
Paperback, $4 .95
John Hollander
REFLECTIONS ON ESPIONAGE.
"John Hollander is a poet of elegant mind
and elegant voice - sharp, witty, intense. The 'messages' he sends out in
Reflections on Espionage
are meant for all of us who think and read , and
beneath their virtuoso surface there is also strong and tender feeling for the
situation of men in this time. " -Irving Howe
Clothbound, $8.95
James Merrill
DIVINE COMEDIES.
In reviewing his last book of poems , Helen Vendler in a
major review in
The New York Times Book Review
referred to James Merrill as
"one of our indispensable poets." In addition to an astonishing narrative poem
of 100 pages ,
The Book of Ephraim,
there are nine other poems. An indispens–
able book.
Clothbound, $8.95
Henry McBride
THE FLOW OF ART: Essays and Criticisms,
selected and with an Introduc–
tion by Daniel Catton Rich ; Prefatory Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Henry McBride
was the most distinguished newspaper and magazine critic of art in New York
City in the first half of this century. This is a generous and fully annotated
selection from his writings, 1913-1952; a vivid evocation of the art scene of
those days . Many illustrations.
Clothbound, $14.95
