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The International Paul Bowles Society
'The Heated Beetle Pants'
The Poetry of Paul Bowles

'The Thicket of Spring' Poems 1926-1969, (1972)
by Paul Bowles

The International Paul Bowles Society

About the book

This book of poetry contains the following poems (in down-column order):

'Serenade au Cap'*

'Taedium Vitae'

'A Melody' (Scene II)*

'Elegy'

'Ballad'

'Sidi Amar in Winter'

'America'*

'Poem'*

'All Too Well'

'Double Exposure'

'Message'*

'Scene III'*

'Spire Song'*

'Three Dances'

'Scene IV'*

'The Church'*

'Each Whining Thing'*

'Scene V'*

'International Poem'*

'The Day is a Wide Place'

'Scene VI'*

'Prelude and Dance'

'No Village'*

'Scene VII'*

'Blessed are the Meek'*

'Watervariation'*

'Scene VIII'*

'Delicate Song'**

'Ed Djouf'*

'Scene IX'*

'The Path to the Pond'

'Sous-Titres en Chleuh'*

'Polemos'

'Song'

'The Years Move Outward ' (Scene I)*

'Acrostic Notice'*

* previously published in 'Tambour'
* previously published in 'transition'
* previously published in 'Two Poems'
* previously published in 'Scenes'
* previously published in 'The Morada'
* later used on the spoken word CD 'Baptism of Solitude'
* previously published in 'This Quarter'
* previously published in 'Blues: A Magazine of New Rythms'
* previously published in 'Mediterranean Review'
* previously published in 'A Quarterly of Unpublished Letters and Other Belles Lettres'
* previously published in 'The Messenger'

Available Editions:

First Edition, USA:

'The Thicket of Spring'
Black Sparrow Press, 1972
First Edition
26 alphabet letter copies issued
signed by the author, with original vinyl glassine jacket

The International Paul Bowles Society'The Thicket of Spring'
Black Sparrow Press, 1972
First Edition
200 copies issued
signed by the author, in vinyl glassine jacket


The International Paul Bowles Society'The Thicket of Spring'
Black Sparrow Press, 1972
First Edition, paper wrappers
1000 copies issued

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