The Things Which Are. First Edition, Signed

NOWLAN, Alden. The Things Which Are. Toronto, Canada : Contact Press, 28 Mayfield Avenue, 1962. First Edition. "Printed in England at the Poets' and Painters' Press, 146 Bridge Arch, Sutton Walk, London, S.E.I." Pp (10),11-71, (1). 8vo, off-white wraps, blue & black lettering to front, black lettering to spine.

Limited to 250 copies, 50 in cloth.

Laugher p 422.

Nowlan's fifth book.

"Not since Edwin Arlington Robinson gave us 'Tilbury Town' and Robert Frost fashioned his portraits and insights of the New England hills, has a poet managed to come as close as has Alden Nowlan to country people and to country things. He writes of them with wit and love, and at times with honest hatred; and his compassion is always reinforced with understanding.

His 'country' is the town of Hartland and environs, or roughly central New Brunswick. Curiously enough, he is not a native son but a Nova Scotian, Windsor-born in 1933. However, he has lived at Hartland since 1952 and has made it his own.

In this new volume he shows that he has been able to advance to a new tightness, a new directness, both in the material and in the verse line. In addition, the personal involvement is ever more closely felt than before, the dramatic note intensified. We are reading here a poet who is moving into maturity." - from the dust jacket.

"Party at Bannon Brook",
"The Terror of Thinking Myself No More A Poet",
"Disguise",
"Black Thread",
"Salvation",
"Strange Flowers",
"Fire",
"Drunk: Falling",
"The Mark",
"Novelty Booth",
"November 11",
"The Bull Moose",
"Comparison",
"The Cat",
"The Shack Dwellers",
"Stoney Ridge Dance Hall",
"The Gift",
"Francis",
"The East Brighton Road",
"Money",
"Fired",
"The Stenographer",
"The Grove Beyond the Barley",
"At The Drug Store",
"Canticle",
"Porch",
"October Snow Storm",
"Nightpiece",
"The Execution",
"Explanation",
"Fruit of The Hurricane",
"The Genealogy of Morals",
"The Chopper",
"Trans-Canada Highway",
"The Drunken Poet",
"Voyeur",
"The Eloi and The Morlocks",
"The Idolator",
"Aleister Crowley",
"Sometimes",
"Bird of Prey",
"Love Poem for Therese",
"Waiting for Her",
"Dancer",
"Fall",
"Picking Raspberries",
"Moon Fear",
"Jane at Two",
"Three Choices",
"Closing Time",
"Storm",
"In Peace",
"Psalm",
"Daisies", and
"Canadian Love Song."

Original pencil price 2.00 crossed out in black & red markers, name, some wear to spine ends, else very good in worn lightly soiled but unclipped dustjacket. Signed by Nowlan, with inscription "For my dear friend /[.] / with love / - Alden Nowlan"600.00

Product Info

Publisher: Contact Press, Toronto, 1962,

Year: 1962

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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