Hi Frank,
I believe a similar system operates here, well, at least in New South
Wales. Which reminds me, I should use libraries more instead of filling
my ever-decreasing space with books and paper.
J
On Saturday, March 12, 2005, at 03:11 AM, Frank Parker wrote:
> A person can get the local public library to locate a copy within its
> system
> of affiliates here in Arizona. It's the same in California and
> Washington.
> You can put in a request and the library will search the state for your
> title sending notice on its arrival. Is it similar in Australia and
> the UK?
> The service has come in handy during many times of drought for me.
>
> Thanks for the tip, Roger!
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Litter Magazine
>
>
>> There is a paperback edition for the impecunious among us in the UK
>> a.. Paperback 480 pages (July 1, 2003)
>> a.. Publisher: Carcanet Press
>> a.. ISBN: 1857546318
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Parker" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: Litter Magazine
>>
>>
>>> Alison, I highly recommend the latest collection:
>>>
>>> George Oppen: New Collected Poems
>>> Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (February, 2002)
>>> ISBN: 0811214885
>>>
>>> From Publishers Weekly
>>> A Modernist who was part of the Objectivist group that included
>>> Charles
>>> Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky and Carl Rakosi, George Oppen (1908-1984)
>>> won
> a
>>> Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his masterpiece, Of Being Numerous. New
>>> Collected
>>> Poems gathers that work, along with some missing from the 1975
> Collected.
>>> Edited by poet Michael Davidson, it includes Primitive (the last
>>> volume
>>> Oppen published, in 1978) as well as previously unpublished work.
> Admirers
>>> of Oppen's foundational volumes should be very pleased with this
>>> update.
>>>
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:02 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Litter Magazine
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've had a pleasant read through Litter too - particularly liked the
>>>> essay
>>>> on Oppen, whom I must read more of -
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> A
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alison Croggon
>>>>
>>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>>> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
>>>> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>>>>
>>>>
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