Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals

FONTAINE, William T.

ISBN 10: 0394585062 / ISBN 13: 9780394585062

Published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1967

About this Item

First edition. Octavo. 162pp. Fine in modestly spine-toned very good dust jacket with a few stray spots mostly on the front panel. Signed by the author. Philosophic notes on race and segregation.

Seller Inventory # 561411

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on Segregation, Desegregation, Power and Morals
• Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois
• Publication Date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0394585062
• ISBN 13: 9780394585062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-Americana

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Synopsis

The author's first book in eleven years, this collection includes a narrative poem recalling the devastating breakup of a marriage, and a chamber music poem based on a Haydn quartet and the lovers from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Reviews

Hecht's first new collection in 11 years--his fifth since 1954--smoothly complements his simultaneously published Collected Earlier Poems, sharing its elegant milieu: the European city, the concert hall, the art museum. In intricate formal patterns that even his ablest contemporaries (James Merrill and John Hollander)--would envy, Hecht delivers elegies, lyrics, and dramatic monologs with equal grace and wit. But one poem rises monolithically above the rest. "See Naples and Die" is a travel narrative at once funny ("only a nation/ Devoted to the cult of the madonna/ With all its doctrinal embellishments/ Could produce 'extra virgin olive oil' ") and grim (the Elysian Fields are "a vacant wilderness of weeds"). If filmed by Fellini or painted by Bosch, the story could not be more harrowing or apocalyptic.
- Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
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