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Copyright © 1997 by the Estate of James Laughlin

Copyright © 1938, 1945, 1959, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,
1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 by James Laughlin

roduction, Copyright © 1998 by Charles Tomlinson

poems "I Cannot Separate Her" and "Lost Brains" originally appeared in The New Yorker,
"Nunc Dimittis" in Double Take, "Funerals" and "Illness" in Grand Street, and "An Honest
Heart . . . A Knowing Hand"
in Agni.

epigraph on page vii, "Write on My Tomb", was originally published in James Laughlin
Stolen & Contaminated Poems ( 1985).

Most of the poems in this volume were selected from the following books by James Laughlin:
Some Natural Things ( 1945), A Small Book of Poems ( 1947), The Wild Anemone ( 1957), In Another
Country
( 1978), Stolen & Contaminated Poems ( 1985), Selected Poems 1935-1985 ( 1986), The Owl of
Minerva
( 1987), The Bird of Endless Time ( 1989), The Man in the Wall ( 1993), The Collected Poems of
James Laughlin
( 1994), Heart Island & Other Epigrams ( 1995), The Country Road ( 1995), and The
Secret Room
( 1996). For details, see below, p. 291.

Manufactured in the United States of America
New Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper.
First published as New Directions Paperbook 857 in 1998
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books
Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Laughlin James, 1914-1997

[Poems. Selections]

Poems, new and selected/ James Laughlin; introduction by Charles
Tomlinson.

p. cm.
Includes index.

ISBN 0-8112-1375-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

I. Title.

PS3523.A8245A6 1998

811'.54-dc21

97-52320

CIP

New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin
by New Directions Publishing Corporation,
80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011

-iv-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Poems, New and Selected. Contributors: James Laughlin - author. Publisher: New Directions. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1998. Page Number: iv.
    
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