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New Books - 11/05
The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan ($49.95 Univ. of California) A
landmark collection indeed. Twenty years after the death of this profoundly
influential and much loved member of what has been called the
second-generation New York School, his work has been scrupulously gathered
and edited by his wife, Alice Notley, and their two sons, Anselm and Edmund
Berrigan (all poets themselves). The result is a 750-page tome that offers
work for the most part long out of print as well as previously uncollected
writing. It's a Ted Berrigan Bible - brimming with poems that are
irreverent, intense, loving, caustic, funny, and utterly present.
Monologue of a Dog, by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Clare Cavanaugh
and Stanislaw Baranczak ($22 Harcourt) This bilingual collection of mostly
new poems from the Polish Nobel Laureate bears her trademark clarity of
language, Eastern European sensibility, dry sense of humor, and astute
parsing of life (and inevitable death).
The Trouble with Poetry, by Billy Collins ($22.95 Random House) The former
Poet Laureate of the US offers up a generous collection of new work,
including at last the oft-requested poem, "The Lanyard." Domestic and
philosophical at once, his poems are plain-spoken and dipped in a quiet
humor.
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, translated by Sam Hamill ($18.95 Shambhala) This
is a lovely volume for a lovingly translated philosophical text that, as Mr.
Hamill suggests, is still revolutionary though written over 2,000 years ago.
His version is spare yet rich -- "Clay is shaped to make a pot, / and what's
useful is its emptiness."
And now in paperback...
...comes the thoroughly titled _Ariel: the Restored Edition: A Facsimile of
Sylvia Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and
Arrangement_ ($13.95 Harper Perennial), Ms. Plath's fascinating original
intention for her famous, posthumously published collection.
Also new to paper is Lucie Brock-Broido's collection of striking lyrical
poems, _Trouble In Mind_ ($15 Knopf).
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