Straw for the Fire - Softcover

Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke 1943-63

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Anchor Books Edition: 1974. 262pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "Nothing in our literature can compare with STRAW FOR THE FIRE, from Theodore Roethke's notebooks, in showing at first-hand the way the poetic imagination works. It is an omnium-gatherum of wisdom, nonsense, and revelation--and it is destined to live as long as the best of Roethke's poems. Reading these fragments and improvisations is a breathtaking, moving, painful, and sometimes hilarious adventure. David Wagoner's organization of the texts is an exemplary act of friendship and creative editing."--Stanley Kunitz. "To be inside the mind of a poet as rare as Theodore Roethke is one of the more fortunate experiences of one's own mind. Here are fragments of poems, personal reflections, soul-and-body wrestlings, jokes, literary judgments of a very high and individual order. The important thing is that STRAW FOR THE FIRE is all Roethke, in all his moods and all his deep fire."--James Dickey. NF paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, slight cover aging (no tears) & minor foxing on top edge, o/w unmarked & pairs nicely w/Collected Poems [my listing RUB3173], also Cover Design by Robert Leydenfrost. Artikel-Nr. RUB3174

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