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From: "Alan Halsey" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Alan Halsey" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:09 PM
Subject: new from West House Books
> NEW FROM WEST HOUSE BOOKS
>
>
> THE EPIGRAMS & FRAGMENTS OF MERCURIALIS THE YOUNGER
> translated by Alan Halsey
>
> 'a trader you can tell by his name,
> Mercurialis -- that pagan --
> tricks in his stars -- that pigeon'
> -- with his cellarful of books,
> 'Mercurialis: The Works',
> unsold, neatly shelved, all the same
>
> Mercurialis the Younger, 'of Anticyra in Phocis, famous for black
> hellebore', fl. 260-285 AD. Seventy one of his poems survive in the
Annales
> Anticyrae where they are quoted, usually in fragmentary form, to
illustrate
> contemporary events and aspects of life in the province. He is said to
have
> 'traded in manuscripts' but this may only be a slighting reference to his
> literary career and his frequent plagiarisms; that he 'died very poor'
seems
> probable although we may doubt that he 'chose the pickaxe'. This West
House
> edition is the first complete translation of the extant poems.
>
> 28pp.
> ISBN 1-904052-16-9
> £4.50 post free in UK
>
> West House Books, 40 Crescent Road, Nether Edge, Sheffield S7 1HN
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> Distributed in the USA by SPD
> 1341 Seventh Street, Berkeley, CA 94710-1403
>
> & a reminder of other recent West House titles:
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> Tony Baker THREE PART INVENTION AND OTHER SCORED OCCASIONS. £4.50
> Thomas Lovell Beddoes DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, The Later Text. £14.95
> Sean Bonney POISONS, THEIR ANTIDOTES. £4.50
> Richard Caddel WRITING IN THE DARK. £8.95
> Ian Davidson HUMAN REMAINS AND SUDDEN MOVEMENTS. £3.50
> Karen Mac Cormack IMPLEXURES. £11.95
> Peter Riley ARIA WITH SMALL LIGHTS. £3.50
> Christine Stewart FROM 'TAXONOMY'. £4.50
> Glenn Storhaug FOR SILVER SEE BLUE. £7.95
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