Next to nothing : collected poems, 1926-1977 / Paul Bowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

73 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1981.

Summary:

This slim volume collects Bowles' poetry, from his earliest youthful Surrealist lyrics ("A dull pearl evening presses down flat over all the land . . ".) to the longer narrative title poem and several other brief lyrics from the seventies ("No voice could be enough, what with this and that, / and the hours falling faster").

Notes:

"This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 500 cloth trade copies; 300 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 26 lettered copies have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & are signed by the author.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is cloth trade copy.

ISBN:

0876855052 :

OCLC:

7272182