Isn't it amazing what academic books cost now? And it isn't only the new
ones. I dream of someday seeing Stephen Owen's 1981 book on "the high
T'ang": used, it starts at $700; "collectible," at $1200.
Do you (I hope) have access to a regional library system that can borrow
these books for you from libraries that own them on an inter-library loan
for a few weeks? --how I get by with no book money and limited mobility in
New Haven, CT.
Of course the library that does not participate is Yale's own, which is a
city-bus ride away but very expensive to use. Another story.
Susan Holahan
on 12/10/08 11:31 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Whew, what books exactly, Christopher?
>
> I'd suspect only university libraries might hold such as these, alas...
>
> Doug
> On 8-Dec-08, at 10:55 PM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
>
>> I was just looking for some light reading matter and nearly every
>> book I
>> saw which I would have very much enjoyed reading was between $230 and
>> $250 for a 250 to 300 page book!
>>
>> YIKES, how does a poet living in poverty get to read these interesting
>> books? I could try the local library, I suppose?
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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>
> let us make an anthology of recipes
> let us edit for breakfast
> our most unspeakable appetites --
> . . . . .
> let us answer hunger
> with boild chimera
> and apocalyptic tea,
> an arcane salad of spiced bibles,
> tossed dictionaries --
>
> Gwendolyn MacEwen
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