Modern occasions : new fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism by 21 writers / Selected and edited by Philip Rahv
1966, 1st edition. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426173
Physical description; [10], 369 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; Foreword -- The elbow / Thalia Selz -- The vanity of human wishes / Robert Lowell -- The aporias of the avant-garde / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Peak / A.R. Ammons -- Passage / A.R. Ammons -- Self-portrait / A.R. Ammons -- Zone / A.R. Ammons -- Going to New York / Mordecai Richler -- The new American playwrights / Robert Brustein -- A lip service to departures / Robert Brustein -- Waiting tables is a profession / Robert Brustein -- Perfect days / Jascha Kessler -- Practicing for death / Jane Cooper -- The later thought of Jean-Paul Sartre / Maurice Cranston -- Weissburg of Arabia / Irvin Faust -- Gan Chayim / Harold Schimmel -- All on a Saturday afternoon / Harold Schimmel -- Some younger poets in America / Stephen Donadio -- Test borings / John Barth -- On a picture by Vincent Canadé / William Bronk -- The elms dying / William Bronk -- Back to back / Peter Spielberg -- In Turgenev's hometown / Karel Van Het Reve -- Entropy / Stephen T. Sohmer -- Worlds / P.N. Furbank -- My spy story / Henry H. Roth -- How to marry a hummingbird / Paul West -- Notes on contributors. Subjects; 1900-1999. American literature 20th century. American literature. Civilization. United States. United States Civilization 20th century ; Literary collections.
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