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Joe Rosenblatt: The Sleeping Lady (Exile Editions, Toronto, C$6.95) - poems

Sean Virgo: White Lies and Other Fictions (Exile, Toronto, C$8.95) - stories

Robert Marteau: Atlante (Bilingual, tr. Barry Callaghan) (Exile, C$6.95)

Robert Marteau: Traite du blanc et des teintures / Treatise on White and Tincture. (Bilingual, tr. Barry Callaghan) (Exile, C$6.95)

(Exile Editions are distributed by Firefly Books, 2 Essex Ave. Unit 5, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada.)

The Marteau books are each long poems, very well translated and produced. The poetry is very dense, and hermetic but repays the effort of reading. Should be road alongside the shorter poems in Salamander: Selected Poems, tr. Anne Winters, Princeton U.P., 1979.)

William Bronk: The Brothers in Elysium - Essays on Friendship and Society in the United States. (Essays on Thoreau, Melville, Whitman) (Elizabeth Press, US$12(?). distrib. by SPD.)

Christopher Dewdney: Alter Sublime (Coach House Press, Toronto, C$5.50. available at US$5.50 from SPD, Berkeley.)

August Kleinzahler: A Calendar of Airs (Coach House, Toronto, £2.25 from Nick Kimberly in London.)

Günter Kunert: Ein englisches Tagebuch (dtv, Munich, DM9.80)

Rose Ausländer: Mein Atem heisst jetzt (S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt. DM26).

Craig Watson: Drawing a Blank (Singing Horse Press, Philadelphia)

John Ash: The Bed & other poems. (Oasis Books, London, £1.80)

Carl Rakosi: History (Oasis Books, London, £1.20)

Alasdair Paterson: Alps (O Book No.1) (Oasis, London, 60p.)

Roland John: The Child Bride’s Diary (O Book No.2) (Oasis, London, 60p)

IRON 33, 70p. Includes a special feature on Cumbrian poets. Good issue, with some excellent photographs. Edited by Peter Mortimer.

ANTAEUS 43, ed. Daniel Halpern. US$4 .00. The usual lousy poetry, but the prose is good, and there are essays/documents by Barth, Frye, Dickey and Montale.

ATLANTIC REVIEW 3, ed. Robert vas Dias. Excellent issue. Poetry by Caddel, Hamburger, Barnett, Enslin, Peter Riley; prose by Aspenström, plus Harry Guest on F.T. Prince.

ATLANTIC is moving to Paris, and will then hopefully be able to appear more regularly, and will also, hopefully, serve as a bridge between London & Paris

MONTEMORA 8, ed. Eliot Weinberger US$5.95, distrib. NYSSPA. A whopper special issue, and also the last of the red-hot montemoras. Essay on H.D. by Friedman & DuPlessis;  plus selections from 2 of H.D.’s unpublished novels; a chapter from Robert Duncan’s forever-unfinished H.D. Book; Selected Poems of Mina Loy; Correspondence 1928-30 of Pound & Zukofsky. Criticism includes Cox on MacDiairmid, Heller on Rakosi, Greene on Snyder, Rodney on Dorn, Corman on Bronk & Larkin (!), Watson on Rosmarie Waldrop. What a way to go!