1998, ISBN: 9780811213868

New York, New York, U.S.A: New Directions, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Edited and with an Introduction by Hayden Carruth. Spotless burgundy cloth binding with gilt titles, tight, solid and square. Internals immaculate. Grey and white unclipped jacket with woodcut illustration of James Laughlin by Margaret Hall. This is the last book that John Laughlin, a poet of distinction and founding publisher of New Directions Publishing, helped to prepare during his lifetime. The manuscript has been completed and sent to the typesetter before the onset of his final illness and death in November 1997. 247 poems composed in a five-line stanza form first introduced in "The Secret Room (1997). A 'pentastich' refers to a poem of five line without regard to metrics. 94 pages. 9.4 x 6.25 inches. New Directions, New York, 1998., New Directions, 1998, 5

1998, ISBN: 9780811213868

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. Buch (fremdspr.) Hayden Carruth#James Laughlin gebundene Ausgabe, New Directions, 01.11.1998, New Directions, 1998

1998, ISBN: 9780811213868

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. Buch (fremdspr.) Hayden Carruth#James Laughlin gebundene Ausgabe, New Directions, 01.11.1998, New Directions, 1998

ISBN: 9780811213868

Hardback, [PU: New Directions Publishing Corporation], A compilation of 249 poems composed in a form of James Laughlin's devising first introduced in The Secret Room. A pentastich refers to a poem of five lines, without regard to metrics. This selection is of short-line compositions in natural voice cadence., Poetry By Individual Poets

1998, ISBN: 9780811213868

Poetry, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: New Directions Publishing Corporation]