Research Catalog

Title

Weep not, my wanton : stories & poems / Maggie Dubris.

Author

Dubris, Maggie.

Publication

Santa Rosa, [California] : Black Sparrow Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Black Sparrow Press, printer. NNC http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Description

232 p.; 23 cm

Subjects

• Allied health personnel > Literary collections
• New York (N.Y.) > Literary collections

Note

• "Printed April 2002 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press by Mackintosh Typography & Edwards Brothers Inc."
• "Text set in Caslon 540 by Sasha Newborn."
• "Design by Barbara Martin."
• "This first edition is published in paper wrappers and in a cloth trade edition; 75 copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 22 copies lettered A-V with an original holograph poem have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & are signed by the author."

Contents

• The Dream Book -- The Final Miracle -- A Man Does Not Choose When To Have a Heart Attack -- What's New, Pussycat? -- The Rolling Stones Learn to Relate -- Give It Up -- The Mighty Up -- You Can't Spell Mess without E-M-S -- Welcome to WillieWorld -- The Pharaohs -- The Pharaoh's Army -- Abyssinia -- North of Abyssinia -- "Pennies, pennies in a fountain ..." -- A World Written on a White Page -- The Bu de la Ru -- For Your Wife: When You Marry -- An Unpopular Man -- More Suspicious Facts about Gilliat -- The Dutch Sloop -- A Fit Tenant for a Haunted House -- The Gild-Holm-'Ur Seat -- A Troubled Life, but a Quiet Conscience -- A Certain Predilection -- Mess. Lethierry's Vulnerable Part -- Prattle and Smoke -- The Old Story of Utopia -- Rantaine -- Continuation of the Story of Utopia -- The Devil Boat -- Lethierry's Exultation -- The Same Godfather and the Same Patron Saint -- Bonnie Dundee -- The Man Who Discovered Rantaine's Character -- Long Yarns --
• Matrimonial Prospects -- An Anomaly in the Character of Lethierry -- Thoughtlessness Adds a Grace to Beauty -- Streaks of Fire in the Horizon -- The Unknown Unfolds Itself by Degrees -- The Air "Bonnie Dundee" Finds an Echo on the Hill -- "A Serenade by Night ..." -- A Deserved Success Has Always Its Detractors -- The Sloop Cashmere Saves a Shipwrecked Crew -- How an Idler Had the Good Fortune To Be Seen by a Fisherman -- Conversations at the Jean Auberge -- Clubin Observes Someone -- Clubin Carries Away Something and Brings Back Nothing -- Pleinmont -- The Birds'-Nesters -- The Jacressade -- Nocturnal Buyers and Mysterious Sellers -- A "Cannon" of the Red Ball and the Black -- Useful Information for Persons Who Expect or Fear Arrival of Letters from Beyond the Sea -- The Douvres -- An Unexpected Flask of Brandy -- Conversations Interrupted -- Captain Clubin Displays All His Great Qualities -- Clubin Reaches the Crowning Point of Glory --
• The Interior of the Abyss Suddenly Revealed -- An Unexpected Denouement -- The Pearl at the Foot of a Precipice -- Much Astonishment on the Western Coast -- A Quotation from the Bible -- The Place Which Is Easy to Reach, but Difficult to Leave Again -- A Catalogue of Disasters -- Sound; but Not Safe -- A Preliminary Survey -- A Word upon the Secret Co-operations of the Elements -- A Stable for the Horse -- A Chamber for the Voyager -- Importuneque Volucres -- The Rock, and How Gilliat Used It -- The Forge -- The Discovery -- The Interior of an Edifice under the Sea -- What Was Seen There; and What Perceived Dimly -- The Resources of One Who Has Nothing -- Preparations -- Gilliat's Masterpiece com st. the Rescue of Lethierry -- Sub Re -- Sub Umbra -- Gilliat Places the Sloop in Readiness -- Sudden Danger -- Movement Rather than Progress -- A Slip between Cup and Lip -- Sea-Warnings -- Murmurs in the Air -- Extremes Meet -- The Ocean Winds -- The Noises Explained --
• Turba Turma -- Gilliat's Alternative -- The Combat -- He Who Is Hungry Is Not Alone -- The Monster -- Another Kind of Sea-Combat -- Nothing Is Hidden; Nothing Lost -- The Fatal Difference between Six Inches and Two Feet -- De Profundis ad Altum -- The Appeal Is Heard -- The Harbor Clock -- The Harbor Bell Again -- Joy Surrounded by Tortures -- The Leathern Trunk -- The Havelet near the Church -- Despair Confronts Despair -- The Forethought of Self-Sacrifice -- "For Your Wife" When You Marry -- The Great Tomb.

ISBN

• 1574231812 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1574231804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1574231820 (signed cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002018398

OCLC

• 49276738
• ocm49276738
• SCSB-4286925

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries