This collection by Australia's Banjo Paterson, introduced and selected by Les Murray, includes 68 poems from "Waltzing Matilda", "A Bush Christening" and "Clancy of the Overflow", to "The Man From Snowy River".

A.B. Paterson Selected Poems

CODRESCU, Andrei

Black Sparrow Press

Richard Grossinger  is an American writer, anthropologist, and publisher of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.This is the first book in a series "The Solar Journal Series" published by Black Sparrow,   1964-1967

Solar Journal: Oecological Sections

Grossinger, Richard

This landmark volume of correspondence by the great Objectivist poet Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) sheds light not only on the difficulties of a dedicated artist trying to keep afloat in a materialistic society, but on the relation of poetry to a wider culture during an eventful and turbulent period of modern history. Most of the letters here date from the 1920s and 1930s, when the young Reznikoff, an NYU. law school graduate employed sporadically as an editor of legal encyclopedias and as a traveling salesman for his parents' millinery business, devotes his heart and soul to his writing--turning out poems, plays, short stories and novels which, for want of commercial takers, he himself publishes in small editions. Letters to magazine editors such as Henry Hurwitz of The Menorah Journal (the main forum for Reznikoff's early poetry and prose) and Harriet Monroe of Poetry (a 1931 issue, guest-edited by Reznikoff's friend Louis Zukofsky, launched his verse on a wider public) show the poet's meticulous attention to craft and revision. At the center of this volume are many intensely personal and revealing letters to the writer, teacher and Zionist activist Marie Syrkin, who in 1930 became Reznikoff's wife. During their courtship, Charles sends Marie drafts of poems along with declarations of love, somewhat uneasily confronting the problem of being a provider on a poet's income: "I expect my love for you to feed my work--and my love for my work to feed you". Another major correspondent is a lifetime Reznikoff friend, the film producer, director and writer Albert Lewin, who for a time in the Thirties hired the poet as an editorial assistant. Initially intrigued by Hollywood's "Arabian nightish" lifestyle, Reznikoff dispatches lively reports on studio gossip to Marie back in New York. Before long, however, he is finding the celluloid business "degrading", urging Lewin to give up movies to write, and then taking his own advice. To his friend he confides his poetic "credo": "The vertical' is the moment, the as / is; if possible from the top of the sky to the bottom of the earth. For that my instrument is the poem--and, of course I rarely succeed. But I will try to write some verse every day..."

Selected Letters of Charles Reznikoff: 1917-1976

Biographies & Memoirs

Renkikoff, Charles

Arts & Literature

Green grass, blue sky, white house

MORRIS, Wright

The Magellanic Clouds

Literature & Fiction

WAKOSKI, Diane

Poetry

Green

CLARK, Tom

Post Office

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES

Contemporary

Imaginary speeches for a brazen head, a novel

Whalen, Philip

Imaginary speeches for a brazen head,: A novel

A very interesting and inspiring collection of poems for poetry lovers, writers and/or language arts students

The thicket of spring; poems, 1926-1969

BOWLES, Paul.

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