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'The Heated Beetle Pants'
The Poetry of Paul Bowles

'Next to Nothing':
Collected Poems 1926-1977' (1981)

by Paul Bowles

The Poems (in down-column order)

'Serenade Au Cap'*

'Taedium Vitae'*

'Scene III'**

'Elegy'*

'Ballad'*

'Scene IV'**

'America'**

'Poem'*

'Scene V'**

'Double Exposure'*

'Message'**

'Scene VI'**

'Spire Song'**

'Three Dances'*

'Scene VII'**

'The Church'*

'Each Whining Thing'**

'Scene VIII'**

'International Poem'**

'Voyage En Egypte'*

'Scene IX'**

'Entity'*

'The Day Is A Wide Place'*

'Love Song'*

'Stop That'*

'No Village'**

'Polemos'*

'Here I Am'*

'Watervariation'**

'Acrostic Notice'*

'Prelude And Dance'*

'Ed Djouf'**

'Etiquette'

'Blessed Are The Meek'**

'Sous-titres In Chleuh'**

'Next To Nothing'*

'Delicate Song'***

'The Years Move Outward' (Scene I)**

'Far From Why'

'The Path To The Pond'*

'A Melody' (Scene II)**

'Nights'*

'Slow Song'*

'Sidi Amar In Winter'*

 

'Song'*

'All Too Well'*

 



*
previously published in 'The Thicket of Spring'
* previously published in 'Tambour'
* previously published in 'transition'
* previously published in 'Two Poems'
* previously published in 'Scenes'
* later used on the spoken word CD 'Baptism of Solitude'
* previously published in 'This Quarter'
* previously published in 'A Quarterly of Unpublished Letters and Other Belles Lettres'
* previously published in 'The Messenger'

Available Editions:

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The International Paul Bowles Society
'Next To Nothing'
Black Sparrow Press, 1981
hardback in glassine wrapper
Limited Edition of 26 alphabet letter copies
lettered and signed by Paul Bowles.


The International Paul Bowles Society
'Next To Nothing'
Black Sparrow Press, 1981
hardback in glassine wrapper
Limited Edition of 300 copies
numbered and signed by Paul Bowles.


The International Paul Bowles Society
'Next To Nothing'
Black Sparrow Press, 1981
hardback in glassine wrapper
Limited Edition
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'Next To Nothing'
Black Sparrow Press, 1981
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