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1960

The Lost Work of Stephen King


Stephen J. Spignesi - 1960
    These rare King works are looked at in chronological order, beginning with some of the earliest works by King that are still extant, including the 1956 story "Jhonathan and the Witches", and the legendary 1960 typescript collection, People, Places, and Things. The Lost Work of Stephen King continues through his entire life, highlighting King's fascinating creations in addition to the many novels, short stories, and movies for which he is so well known.Looking at these uncommon works in chronological order allows a parallel look at King's life and times -- a comprehensive biographical thread that weaves its way through a forty-year span. Each section begins with an insightful biographical essay chronicling King's life at the time each "lost work" was written.In addition to comprehensive coverage of the nearly unknown Stephen King writings, the book includes a detailed bibliography and filmography focusing on King's readily available, mainstream work, thus providing the reader with one-stop shopping for all their grisly Stephen King needs!Written by one of the world's leading Stephen King experts, The Lost Work of Stephen King will enable fans to fill in the gaps between King's major writings and become experts themselves on the King ofHorror.

The Maximus Poems


Charles Olson - 1960
    Praised by his contemporaries and emulated by his successors, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was declared by William Carlos Williams to be "a major poet with a sweep of understanding of the world, a feeling for other men that staggers me." This complete edition brings together the three volumes of Olson's long poem (originally published in 1960, 1968, and 1975) in an authoritative version.

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960


Donald M. Allen - 1960
    As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Many of the contributors once derided in the mainstream press of the period are now part of the postmodern canon: Olson, Duncan, Creeley, Guest, Ashbery, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Levertov, O'Hara, Snyder, Schuyler, and others. Donald Allen's The New American Poetry delivered the first taste of these remarkable poets, and the book has since become an invaluable historical and cultural record, now available again for a new generation of readers.

Myths & Texts


Gary Snyder - 1960
    The three sequences in the book—"Logging," "Hunting," "Burning"—show the remarkable cohesiveness in Snyder's writings over the years, for we find the poet absorbed, then as now, with Buddhist and Amerindian lore and other interconnections East and West, but above all with the premedical devotion to the land and work.

Harvest Poems: 1910-1960


Carl Sandburg - 1960
    “[Sandburg’s poetry] is independent, honest, direct, lyric, and it endures, clamorous and muted, magical as life itself” (New York Times). Introduction by Mark Van Doren.

Beyond Theology


Alan W. Watts - 1960
    

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 12: Degas, Manet, Morisot


Paul Valéry - 1960
    The full text of Val�ry's book on Degas, with a long essay on Corot, others on Berthe Morisot, Manet, and Daumier, a personal recollection of Renoir, and writings on sculpture, portraiture, Italian painting, and several minor arts.