Received: Books!
Got a lovely box of books in the mail from a long-time internet acquaintance. Roxanne at persephassa sent me:
Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind
Leonard Cohen Selected Poems: 1956-1968
Arthur Rimbaud A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Patti Smith Early Work 1970-1979
Dorothy Parker Enough Rope
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems 1927-1979
Philip Levine They Feed They Lion and The Names of the Lost
and my favorite at first glance–
Louis Untermeyer This Singing World: An Anthology of Modern Poetry for Young People
I think I will most closely read Ferlinghetti, but I am excited about each of them. The Anthology is an eighth printing from 1928 and is full of interesting and bizarre illustrations. Thanks, Roxanne!
Ruby is obsessed with the box and papers from the package, likely because they smell like Roxanne’s darling cats.
