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A Commonplace Book of Pentastichsby Laughlin, James; Carruth, Hayden
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Book DescriptionNew Directions, 1998. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket in protective brodart cover, text new looking, tight clean unmarked, intro by Carruth, 94 pages, five line poems. Publisher NotesJames Laughlin (1914-1997) was a poet of distinction as well as the founding publisher of New Directions, "A Common Place Book of Pentastichs," the last book of his own that he helped to prepare in his lifetime, is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a new form of his own devising first introduced in "The Secret Room" (1997). A note to "Thirty-nine Pentastichs" in that earlier volume explains: "A 'pentastich' refers simply to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. The world is Greek-derived, from 'pentastichos,' though few survive from ancient times. The present selection is of recent short-line compositions in natural voice cadence, many of them marginal jottings and paraphrases of common place book notations." Musing on the full collection, Hayden Carruth writes in his introduction: "For the reader it is a survey of literature that will never be found in a classroom--praise whatever gods may be--but indubitably will be found in loving and long-standing proximity on many a bedside table." Poetry. "A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs" is a compilation of 249 poems composed in a fine-line stanza form first introduced in The Secret Room (1997). It is the last book of his own that Laughlin helped to prepare. Musing On the full collection, Hayden Carruth writes in his introduction: "For the reader it is a survey of literature that will never be found in the classroom ... but indubitably will be found in loving longlasting proximity on many a bedside table." James Laughlin founded New Directions in 1936. His own first book Natural Things appeared nine years later, Poems New And Selected, also available from SPD, was later completed shortly before his death in 1997. Other Recommended Books
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