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The World Below the Window
This selection of William Jay Smith's work of sixty years covers the entire career of one of America's acknowledged poetic masters. It moves from the dark pre-war lyrics ( Quail in Autumn) to the powerful long-lined free verse of the 1960s ( The Tin Can). Here are memorable WWII lyrics ( Dark Valentine) and masterful light verse ( The Tall Poets), displaying the wit that enlivens all of Smith's work. Previously uncollected poems range from a haunting delineation of the ironies of age in "The Shipwreck" to the dramatic intensity of The Cherokee Lottery, which deals with the forced removal of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Praise for William Jay Smith: "A most gifted and original poet....
The Cherokee Lottery
A sequence of poems inspired by the forced removal of the Southern Indians, written by contemporary American author William Jay Smith.
Ho for a Hat!
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Birds and Beasts
A collection of poems about animals, illustrated with woodcuts.
My Friend Tom
A close friend of Tennessee Williams during his early years as a writer gives an account of the literary great's early career, critiques his work, and reflects on the later, more successful time of Williams' life.
New & Selected Poems
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The Girl in Glass
Now touch the air softly, /Step gently, One, two.../I'll love you till roses are robin's-egg blue; /I'll love you till gravel/Is eaten for bread, /And lemons are orange, /And lavender's red. So begins A Pavane for the Nursery, one of William Jay Smith's most celebrated and charming love poems. Collected here for the first time are this and many more of Smith's enchanting paeans to love, a bevy of bewitched words of the sort no loved one could ever hear enough. Whether committed to a delighted reader's memor recited out loud at a romantic wedding, or set to music by a love-struck composer (as Ned Rorem has done), the poems in this intimate book, illustrated by the late Ukrainian woodcut master Jacques Hnizdovsky, bespeak love in a variety of forms. Also included are striking translations of such poets as Frederico Garcia Lorca and Jacques Prevert.
Moral Tales
Provides humorous parodies of the stories of Hamlet, Lohengrin, Salome, Perseus, and Pan, and includes information about the author's life and times
Selected Translations
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass's SELECTED TRANSLATIONS offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs gleaned from more than 500 years of Western tradition. Whether from Hungary, Scandinavia, Italy, Romania, Poland, France, or Germany, these poetic translations are sure to delight.
Principal Suspect
In the early hours of June 25, 1979, a gruesome scene unfolded. The body of Susan Reinert, a suburban Philadelphia high school teacher, was found jammed into the hatchback of a car. She was in the fetal position. She was naked. Her two young children were missing. Thus began one of the most prominent murder cases in Pennsylvania's history. The Main Line murders, as they came to be known, would grip the nation and become the target of a seven-year investigation by the FBI and the Pennsylvania State PoliceDthe most massive homicide investigation in American history. The main suspect in the brutal murder turned out to be Jay Smith, the Principal of Upper Merion High School, where Reinert taught...
