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...need crowds, vast crowds, enormous crowds," explained Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko as he made plans for his tour of the U.S. this month. He once read to an audience of 14,000 in a Moscow sports stadium; Doubleday, his American publisher, was happy to help re-create his experience in the U.S. and simultaneously promote his new book Stolen Apples. Advertising and producing his American appearances will cost nearly $100,000. So far the suave, sallow Siberian has performed for tens of thousands at the University of South Carolina, the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden and arenas in Pittsburgh...
HIDE FOX, AND ALL AFTER by RAFAEL YGLESIAS 203 pages. Doubleday...
POOR RUSSELL'S ALMANAC by RUSSELL BAKER 212 pages. Doubleday...
...Mouse Was Hit on the Head by a Stone and So Discovered the World (Doubleday; $5.95) is an effort by the renowned Swiss educational philosopher Jean Piaget. In a chesty preface, he explains that he worked with Illustrator Etienne Delessert, as well as "a good psychologist" and 23 children, aged five and six, who were asked to approve or disapprove every line of the story as it went along. The children, Piaget reports, were "keenly interested" and "sometimes even laughed a lot." Perhaps How the Mouse etc. loses in translation. In English, anyway, it simply suggests what Piaget-the foremost...
POEMS 1968-1970 by Robert Graves. 90 pages. Doubleday...