Poems. Selected and translated by James Wright.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1970. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with a discreet library stamp on title page in Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket. Few readers seem to be aware that the author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special bi-lingual volume—filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons—that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving. Item #28335
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