Research Catalog

Title

The paradox in the circle / Theodore Spencer.

Author

Spencer, Theodore, 1902-1949

Publication

• Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, [1941]
• Muscatine, Iowa : The Prairie Press
• ©1941

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Coleman, Carroll
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Prairie Press, printer.

Description

32 unnumbered pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Poet of the month ; 1941

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. 1941

Alternative Title

Poems. 1941

Subject

American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Dust jackets – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1941.
• Private press books – Iowa – Muscatine – 1941.

Note

• "The Paradox in the Circle by Theodore Spencer has been designed, hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at The Prairie Press, Muscatine, Iowa for New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut. The type is Bulmer; the paper W & A Andria" -- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

• Carruth, H. New Directions reader
• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-2246 bound in publishers' plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket.
• Copy in Berg Coll 22-2247 is bound in red buckram with title and date stamped on spine in gold between two single rules: "The poet of the month, 1941"; it is bound with the other titles in the series in a variant order; dust jackets retained.

Contents

Theme song -- Escapist's song -- Eden: or one view of it -- The day -- A circle -- Spring song -- A reason for writing -- Practical advice --The 13th, the 19th, the 20th centuries or Ptolemy, Newton, Einstein -- Song -- The circus; or one view of it -- The inflatable globe -- A religious question -- A kind of good-bye -- Song -- Political song -- A kind of truth -- For an ugly duckling -- A narrative -- Old man's song -- Union -- Conversation piece -- Epitaph -- Why weavers object -- Old woman's song -- A kind of circle -- Polite song -- Joshua and the suicide -- Two ways -- The widow -- The shell -- Truth -- Two kinds of answer -- One kind of truth -- A kind of progression -- Two of a kind -- The envy of opposites -- No answer -- Contemporary song -- A kind of anguish -- Lesson in natural history -- A situation -- A paradox -- A kind of agreement -- Practical advice -- Problem of immortality.

Call Number

D-13 9033

LCCN

41011944

OCLC

1646614

Author

Spencer, Theodore, 1902-1949, author.

Title

The paradox in the circle / Theodore Spencer.

Publisher

Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, [1941]

Manufacturer

Muscatine, Iowa : The Prairie Press

Copyright Date

©1941

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poet of the month ; 1941

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 239

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 207

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2246 bound in publishers' plain stiff wrappers; with original dust jacket. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2247 is bound in red buckram with title and date stamped on spine in gold between two single rules: "The poet of the month, 1941"; it is bound with the other titles in the series in a variant order; dust jackets retained. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2246 & Berg Coll 22-2247 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2246 is one of 12 volumes in a slipcase.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2247 is bound in a single volume with other titles in the series.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Coleman, Carroll, book designer, compositor, printer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Prairie Press, printer.

Research Call Number

D-13 9033

*KSD (Spencer, T. Paradox in the circle)

Berg Coll 22-2246

Berg Coll 22-2247