Re: RARA-AVIS: New Willeford...

From: JT Lindroos ( juha@oivas.com)
Date: 26 Jun 2003


> I don't know if this has yet been noted here, but it was news to me, so
just
> in case someone else isn't aware...there's a new Charles Willeford
> collection due out soon (mid-July?) entitled THE SECOND HALF OF THE
> DOUBLE-FEATURE...

Ron, the trade paperback should be available next week ($17.95, 240 pages), the hardcover within a month tops (mid-July possible, and I'm dropping the price to $35.95, 332 pages). If you know a local mystery store, bookstore, whatever, ask them to stock it. I will offer it directly to independent bookstores well before it's "officially" available in mid August, and I will offer it to any Rara-Avis reader who emails me before it's available in
*any* bookstore.

> The five poems from "Outcast Poems"
> complete "Proletarian Laughter"
> complete "Poontang and Other Poems"
> and many unpublished poems

This totals 79 poems, 7 "schematics" and the intro to Proletarian Laughter. I've tried to put *everything* into the poetry section (decoded from handwritten manuscripts), as I hesitate to guess there will be no other edition of Willeford's poetry anytime soon (though there are a few I know still missing). Funny, rude, clever, haunting, insightful, droll, deep, you name it. "Schematics" are about the only material CW wrote about his WWII experiences, brief images of war amidst the poems.

Poetry contents:

"OUTCAST POETS" (1947) 237 Entrance to an Era 238 In Time of This 239 The Apocalypse 240 I Passed Over the River 241 Basement pastoral 241
"PROLETARIAN LAUGHTER" (1948) 243 Preface 244 Schematic No 1 246 Proletarian Laughter 247 In the Truck, In the Back 250 Reflection 251 Schematic No 2 252 In a Simple Search for Justice 253 Anniversary 253 The Tree, the Sky, the Sleeper 254 Schematic No 3 255 Theatre 257 We, Willeford, the People 258 Schematic No 4 260 Passion and Permanence 261 Death is My Brother 263 Eight Panes of Glass 263 Schematic No 5 264 In Case of Night 266 For Which I Sought and Saw It 267 Continuity 268 Schematic No 6 269 The Responsibility of Command 270 Nothing 271 Schematic No 7 272 Soil Erotica 273 Rockabye 274
"POONTANG AND OTHER POEMS" (1967) 275 Poontang 276 Grendel's Dam 277 Sportsman 277 A Pastoral for LeRoi Jones 278 Drive-In Sestina 278 Inroads 279 U.S. Tourist in Jerusalem 279 Perspective 280 The 2nd 1/2 of the Double Feature 281 Limned 282 Basement Pastoral no 2 282 UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1939-1988) 283 Proof Reading 284 Flight Song 284 The Whores on "D" Street 285 The Condemned Igorote 286 Locker Room 286 Query 287 White Sound 288 Wounded Weasel 288 Epitaph for Brian "Uptight" 289 The Risk 289 Magruder Realty 290 New Hope for the Dead 291 In Support of Idolatry 292 A Mesostic for Ron De Maris 292 Perforce 293 Pacemaking 294 Ode to a Tethered Clown 295 Marching in Miami's Omni 296 Robin 296 Aspects of the Novel 297 Lament for a Mezuzah 298 The Earring Rack 299 The Privity Smile of Priapus 300 They Didn't Kill the Goat 301 Untitled 302 The 7 A.M. Class 303 The Murky Clouded Eyes 304 48 Minutes 306 The Sudden Spring of Relegation 307 Sonnet #9 308 Parade 308 Al Seitz Sits by the Pool 309 Capricorn 310 M.O.T.H.E.R., Inc 313 Jean Dubuffet Was Here 313 Love Story 314 Five Positions 315 Standing 316 The House 317 The Heart-Shaped Smile (A Concrete Poem) 318 Enders 321 Blowing Rock 322 Dansant 323 In Lightest Africa 324 The Mandible Tree 325 Sonnet 326

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