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Spearhead : 10 years' experimental writing in America.
LIBRA PS614 .S64 1947
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American literature--20th century.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 604 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, [1947]
- Contents:
- The toy balloon / Robert Lowry
- Five poems / Muriel Rukeyser
- The labyrinth / Anais Nin
- Two poems / Oscar Williams
- Aunt Julia's Caesar / Maud Hutchins
- At the foot of the page / Lionel Abel
- The phoenix & the tortoise / Kenneth Rexroth
- The Mohammedans / H.J. Kaplan
- Xmas gift / Charles Henri Ford
- The facts of life ; A ceremonial ; The commodity embodied in bread / Paul Goodman
- The Greenberg manuscripts / Samuel Greenberg
- The Prairie Avenue piano recital ; The unmusical consequences of the Italian orgeltochter / Montagu O'Reilly
- Four poems / Marianne Moore
- The inhabitants / Wright Morris
- Azeff Wischmeier, the Bolshevik bureaucrat / Georg Mann
- Five poems / Randall Jarrell
- The cosmodemonic rigolade / Henry Miller
- Ten poems / Jose Garcia Villa
- The mugging / Jack Jones
- 27 wagons full of cotton / Tennessee Williams
- A dead one / David Kerner
- Five poems / John Wheelwright
- The pool game / William Saroyan
- Six poems ; The House of the Frowning Heart / Kenneth Patchen
- Flight / Selden Rodman
- Hurry, hurry! / Eleanor Clark
- Three poems / Kay Boyle
- Statement of Ashby Wyndham / Robert Penn Warren
- Seven poems / E.E. Cummings
- The imaginary Jew / John Berryman
- Four cantos / Ezra Pound
- Daniel Webster ; A water-fall and a piano / Gertrude Stein
- Watchman, what of the night? / Djuna Barnes
- A selection from Let us now praise famous men / James Agee & Walker Evans
- From Paterson ; Ten little poems ; Night ; Perpetuum mobile, the city / William Carlos Williams
- Seven poems / Josephine Miles
- Every man his own private detective ; Freud of Assisi / Parker Tyler
- Twelve poems / James Laughlin
- Vertigralist pamphlet / Eugene Jolas
- Four poems / Karl Shapiro
- In dreams begin responsibilities ; A selection from Genesis ; Two lyrics / Delmore Schwartz.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions book."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (tattered along edges) retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has broken front hinge.
- OCLC:
- 1576204
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