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EARTHLY PARADISE by Colette; edited by Robert Phelps. 505 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Seventy-Seven Dream Songs, a chunk of an unfinished long poem on which he has been working since 1955, was published two years ago by Farrar Strauss. The dream songs, in a word, are unexampled. All the difficult on a first reading; a few, for me, remain nearly opaque after many. Berryman's of-repeated description is helpful: "The poem is about a man named Henry. ('It is entirely about a man named Henry,' he told his Harvard audience last month.) He has a tendency to talk about himself in the third person. His last name is in doubt...
...MOTHER IN HISTORY by Jean Stafford. 121 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL by Elizabeth Bishop. 95 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...BATARDE by Violette Leduc. 488 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...