Stranger Music [antikvár]

A NOTE ON THE TEXT In some sections of this book, certain poem titles and texts have been altered from their original pubhcation. In the section taken from Death of a Lady's Man, some changes have been made for this edition: "A Woman's Decision" originally appeared as the commentary to "The Lover After All"; "A Different Drum" as the commentary' to "The Other Village"; "A Marvellous Woman" as the commentary to "No One Watching"; the text of "Not Going Back" is from the commentary to "The Rose"; the text of "Montreal" is from the commentary to "St. Francis"; "French and EngMsh" from the commentary to "Our Govemment-in-Exile"; "Roshi" originally appeared as the commentary to "Formal in His Thought of Her"; "The End of My life in Art" originally appeared under the tide "My Life in Art"; "Roshi Again" originally appeared as the commentary to "My life in Art." The poems mentioned above have been given new titles for this edition. The poems in italic have, for this edition, incorporated the word "commentary" into the title. Poems reproduced here from Selected Poems 1956-1968 had original pubhcation in that edition. Selections from Beautiful Losers and Book of Mercy were given tides for this edition. All but three of the poems selected for this edition from The Energy of Slaves were originally untided. Nancy Bacal made the selection with the assistance of Rebecca De Momay and the author Bill Furey came up with a selection several years ago which was consulted. Karen Lynch and Kelley Lynch prepared the manuscript. Ellen Seligman, my editor at M&S, saw it through to publication. I want to thank all those concerned.