Donald Hall is, at 28, the author of EXILES AND MAR-
RIAGES ( The Viking Press, 1955), former Junior Fellow in
the Society of Fellows at Harvard, Poetry Editor of The
Paris Review, and currently teaching at the University of
Michigan. Robert Pack, 27, is the author of THE IRONY OF
JOY (Poets of Today II, Scribners, 1955). On his return from
Italy, where he spent 1956-57 on a Fulbright grant, he will
resume teaching in the Poetry Workshop of The New School
for Social Research, and commence teaching at Barnard Col-
lege. He has just been awarded a grant by the National In-
stitute of Arts and Letters. Louis Simpson, 34, is presently
in Italy as a Hudson Review fellow in poetry, and has also
received a fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. He
is the author of GOOD NEWS OF DEATH AND OTHER
POEMS (Poets of Today II, Scribners, 1955). Mr. Simpson
is on leave from Columbia College where he is an instructor
in the Department of English.

A Meridian Books Original Edition first published
September 1957
First printing August 1957
Second printing June 1958
Third printing March 1959
Fourth printing January 1960

Copyright 1957 by Meridian Books, Inc.

Library of Congress catalog card number: 57-10836

Manufactured in The United States of America

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