Fascinating hardcover book that recounts the encouragement Bob Dylan gave the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg to go into the studio in 1971 to record his first ever album of music. He then re-entered the studio in 1976 and 1981 and finally in 1983 he compiled all of the recordings (which featured contributions from Dylan, members of his band, and Arthur Russell, and was produced by John Hammond Sr.) onto a double LP called First Blues. This book has a preface which records an important piece of historical collaboration between this Beats icon and the Counter Culture icon, Bob Dylan, and includes the lyrics/poems and musical notations for the noted namesake album. Approximately 75 pages and 32 songs.

Solitude, exile, dreams, nature, love, war, death, patriotism, freedom, and the past form the themes of this selection of poetry

Some light spottingat base of folds on DJ, a little sunning, otherwise a good clean copy

"Elaine Feinstein has long been regarded as one of our finest lyric poets. In this wide-ranging collection, she reflects on people in her local streets, central Europe, and her own adolescence and middle age. Here, too, are of some of the songs from her puppet play The Bet, recently performed at the Almeida Theatre, London, and Brechtian lyrics from her radio play The Temptation of William Fosters. Translations of the Russian child prodigy Nika Turbina are also included."--Back cover.

In these poems written since `Five Ages' (1978), Peter Levi continues to explore man's elemental relationship with the natural world, recording his sense of the indivisible unity of life in its changing aspects.

Peter Levi is one of the most accomplished and individual lyric poets now writing. This is his fourth collection, containing 40 poems, mostly written - some in Greece and Afghanistan, the majority in England - since the publication of `Fresh Water, Sea Water' (1966). They develop the intimate, almost mystical element which is the keynote of his work. John Bayley writing in `Agenda' described this as "his power of taking an active situation, emotion or longing, and revealing beneath and around it the quality that Napoleon called `repose'." `Death is a Pulpit', containing poems written for public performance, is published simultaneously.

This book contains five poems, each written for public performance on a special occasion. Traditional forms - mainly the heroic couplet - are used in a new way under a new necessity. A poem on the art of satire is followed by three sermons - for Christmas, Whitsun and the feast of St Thomas More - and the concluding poem is an elegy for T. S. Eliot. Together they complement the more personal poems collected in `Life is a Platform', which is published simultaneously.

Product Description This is a collection of poetry. About the Author Miriam Waddington (nee Dworkin) was born December 23, 1917 in Winnipeg. She studied English at University of Toronto (B.A. 1939) and social work at University of Pennsylvania (M.A.). Waddington lived in Montreal, doing social work, writing poetry, and raising her family during the 1940's and 50's. She returned to Toronto to work with North York Family Services and to teach English at York University 1964-1983. She was the Canada Council Exchange Poet to Wales in 1980, poetry editor of Poetry Toronto, writer-in-residence at the Windsor Public Library and at the University of Ottawa. She received the J.J. Segal award in 1972. In addition to her poetry, Waddington also published a short story collection Summer at Lonely Beach and the critical study A.M. Klein.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson’s newest volume of poetry, "Searching for the Ox," heralds a literary event of the highest order. The poems here all have a strong narrative structure, and at the same time they are beautifully lyrical, evocative of times, places and moods as strikingly different as the 1930s in tropical Kingston harbor and windy, wintry afternoons on postwar Riverside Drive. Like the masters of Zen, Simpson celebrates the everyday things that give the world color, shape, form and reason; he conveys the essence of an experience through his observation of small details. "Searching for the Ox" is divided into four parts. As Simpson observes in the Preface, "The first two parts describe the life of a young man coming from a background similar to my own. Poems in the third part are more meditative; they are about a way of life. And the concluding section is made up of poems rising out of my interests as a writer."