xvii, 290 pp. Index of titles, index of first lines.

Collected Poems, 1924-1974

Literature & Fiction

Beecher, John

Poetry

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Buddy Holly was a rock pioneer. In an era when almost all stars were manufactured by the music industry, he wrote his own material, led his own group, played a Fender Strat, and recorded classic songs like âThatâll Be the Day,â âPeggy Sue,â âNot Fade Away,â and âItâs So Easy,â in the process influencing everyone from the Beatles to Elvis Costello. Remembering Buddy Holly traces in consumate detail Hollyâs life from his birth in Lubbock, Texas in 1936 to his tragic death in a plane crash twenty-three years later. In celebration of Hollyâs sixtieth birthday, this definitive biography was once again made available.

Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography of Buddy Holly

Goldrosen, J.

Avery

Buddy Holly was a rock pioneer. In an era when almost all stars were manufactured by the music industry, he wrote his own material, led his own group, played a Fender Strat, and recorded classic songs like That'll Be the Day,” Peggy Sue,” Not Fade Away,” and It's So Easy,” in the process influencing everyone from the Beatles to Elvis Costello. Remembering Buddy Holly traces in consumate detail Holly's life from his birth in Lubbock, Texas in 1936 to his tragic death in a plane crash twenty-three years later. In celebration of Holly's sixtieth birthday, this definitive biography was once again made available.

Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography Of Buddy Holly

Goldrosen, John

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

The late John Beecher, though descended from the abolitionist Beechers, grew up in Birmingham, where his father was a steel industry executive. Beecher himself was groomed for a similar role, but when he went into the mills as a young man during the Great Depression, he rebelled and began to write powerful, radical, activist poetry. A contemporary of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, he became a similar chronicler of the massive human displacement of the economic upheaval of the 1930s. During World War II, he served as an officer of the interracial crew of the troop transport Booker T. Washington, and wrote a book about those experiences. In the McCarthy era, he was blacklisted. And in the civil rights era, he turned his attention to the evils of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. Always, he wrote powerful, spare verse which in lesser hands might have been ruined by its outrage. With his artist wife, Barbara, he published several elegant collections of his poetry on his own hand-set letterpress. His books included Report to the Stockholders, To Live and Die in Dixie, In Egypt Land, and a 1974 Macmillan edition of collected poems. All are out of print.

One More River To Cross: The Selected Poetry of John Beecher

NewSouth Books

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