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Synopsis
"Now touch the air softly,/Step gently, One, two. . ./I'll love you till roses and robin's-egg blue;/I'll love you till gravel/Is eaten for bread,/And lemons are orange,/And lavender's red." So begins "A Pavane for the Nursery," one of William Jay Smith's most celebrated and charming love poems. Collected here for the first time are this and many more of Smith's enchanting paeans to love, a bevy of bewitched words of the sort no loved one could ever hear enough. Whether committed to a delighted reader's memory, recited out loud at a romantic wedding, or set to music by a love-struck composer (as Ned Rorem has done), the poems in this intimate book, illustrated by the late Ukrainian woodcut master Jacques Hnizdovsky, bespeak love in a variety of forms. Also included are striking translations of such poets as Frederico Garcia Lorca and Jacques Prevert.
A most gifted and original poet ... One of the very few who cannot be confused with anybody else. --Richard Wilbur [Smith] is rooted in the concrete and the sensuous--in sight, sound, and touch ... That he has written poems replete with rhythm, rhyme, wit, and melody ... is cause for celebration, homage, and gratitude. --Elizabeth Frank, "The Atlantic Monthly"
Poetry by William Jay Smith. Illustrations by Jacques Hnizdovsky.
5.5 x 6.5 in.
31 b/w illustrations
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About the Author
William Jay Smith was born in Louisiana in 1918. He is the author of more than 50 books of poetry, children's verse, literary criticism, and memoirs, the recipient of the Loines Award for poetry, and the former Chairman of the Writing Division at Columbia University.
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- PublisherBooks & Co
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1885586590
- ISBN 13 9781885586599
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages72
- IllustratorHnizdovsky Jacques
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