<p>This is a book to delight the mind and the eye - the first collection of the poet Kenneth Patchen's unique and remarkable "picture-poems." As a creative form, the Patchen picture-poem is descended from the "illuminated printing" of William Blake. Blake devised an etching process for his pages of hand-lettered poems; but Patchen works more freely with watercolor, casein, inks, and other media, as he blends word and image in intricate but always visually compelling patterns of shape, color, and meaning. The fusion of two arts in Hallelujah Anyway gives us an intensification and an enlargement of the poetic process - an extra dimension - not in the limited sense of an "illustrated" poem (Patchen does not write a poem and then simply draw a picture to go with it), but as a new kind of simultaneous creativity.</p>

Hallelujah Anyway: A Collection of Illu

Literature & Fiction

Patchen, Kenneth

Poetry

New Directions Pub. Corp

<p>Limited to an edition of 100 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg with five intricate full-page woodcuts in black and white which help capture the spirit of the locale along with the story. A magical and humorous masterpiece of poetry and holiday spirit, this account of one Christmas day from Dylan Thomas' childhood in a Welsh town has become a well loved addition to the holiday tradition. Printed by Clark and Way at the Thistle Press. Spine rubbed with small split at tail, rear hinge partially cracked. 33, 3 pages. quarter leather with cloth-covered boards. oblong 4to..</p>

A Child's Christmas in Wales (New Directions Book)

THOMAS, DYLAN

"In making this selection, " writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, "my aim has been to show the unity of Ezra Pound's concern." The sixty-six pieces in Pound's "Selected Prose 1909-1965" are arranged thematically, and while they are organized chronologically within several groupings, there are natural cross-currents of thoughts among them. Particular emphasis, however, is given to the article concerned with "Civilization, Money and History." This section contains such essential texts as the "ABC of Economics" and "What is Money For?" as well as two essays - "Gold and Work" and "A Visiting Car" - translated from Pound's Italian and never before published in English in their entirety. Much space is devoted, too, to Pound's evaluation of his native America, its history, culture, economy, and his 1913 essay, "Patria Mia, " is reprinted.

Ezra Pound, Selected prose, 1909-1965

Pound, Ezra.

Essays & Correspondence

From snow and rock, from chaos;: Poems 1965-1972 (A New Directions book)

CARRUTH, Hayden

The Monday rhetoric of the love club, and other parables (A New Directions book)

COHEN, MARVIN

In late nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he s working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse, where he learns to drink absinthe and is picked up by a friendly prostitute.  These hilarious adventures make Queneau s novel, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jokes in modern literature.

The flight of Icarus (A New Directions book)

QUENEAU, RAYMOND

Open eye, open heart (A New Directions book)

FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

Death, Sleep & The Traveler

HAWKES, John

Contemporary

Eight mortal ladies possessed;: A book of stories (A New Directions book)

WILLIAMS, Tennessee

Uninterrupted poetry: Selected writings (A New Directions paperbook)

Éluard, Paul

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