Dear old Roswell

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Michael King

In Being Pakeha Now, Michael King carries the cultural debate forward. While recognising and respecting the place of Maori in New Zealand, he argues that Pakeha too belong inescapably to this country and have no other home. Just as imported East Polynesian ingredients were eventually transmuted into Maori culture, so the attitudes and values carried by Europeans have been transformed here in interaction with forest, mountain and sea, and with Maori. They have coalesced into a second indigenous culture, that of Pakeha New Zealanders. The wooden church and the macrocarpa, King asserts, are as much a part of the spiritual and physical landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand as the meeting house and the cabbage tree. ..."--Back cover.

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Rilke

Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123).

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Marie Cardinal

Une femme seule, quelque part dans le midi. Elle rêve à l'Algérie son pays natal perdu il y a longtemps. Elle revoit le port, le quai, le bateau sur lequel elle a embarqué, un bébé dans les bras, sans savoir qu'elle ne reviendrait plus jamais au pays de son enfance. Au fur et à mesure que se déroule la vie quotidienne de la narratrice éclatent à la surface de sa conscience des bulles de souvenirs. Telle la scène, bouleversante, de la mort du père. Elle a quatorze ans et connaît peu cet homme avec qui elle ne vivait pas. Au pied du cercueil où il repose, d'étranges pensées l'assaillent : est-il nu dans sa boîte? Quel homme, désormais pourrait lui donner autant d'amour qu'un père? ... Mais les échappées oniriques de la narratrice ne se bornent pas à l'enfance. D'autres scènes, d'autres hommes viennent la visiter sous sa tonnelle. -- Back cover.

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foreword by Paul Bowles

O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane collects the most significant letters from one of America's most evocative modern poets into a document as passionate, revealing, and ultimately as tragic as Crane's short life. He died at the age of thirty-two. Of the 1200 letters that survive, this edition selects over three hundred that best illustrate the complexity and textures of Crane's life - from family pressures to his creative ambition, to his homosexuality. These letters served as his notebook, his diary, his workshop, and confessional. Preserving ideas, observations, speculations and even drafts of poems, Crane's letters richly document his intelligence and imagination, as well as his alcoholism and self-destruction, more intimately than any biography. And whatever the myth of Crane's indulgences may hold, these letters show that Crane was dedicated as an artist striving to create uniquely American poetry.