Poetry. First published in 1978, THE ORANGERY is one of Gilbert Sorrentino's most memorable collections of poetry. Each poem is a variation on orange, which appears and reappears as a color, a fruit, a memory, an intrusion, a word seeking rhyme, a presence expected and awaited. As William Bronk wrote upon its original publication, In THE ORANGERY Sorrentino makes things which are hard, gaudy and sometimes scary... They are made to last.
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Poetry. First published in 1978, THE ORANGERY is one of Gilbert Sorrentino's most memorable collections of poetry. Each poem is a variation on orange, which appears and reappears as a color, a fruit, a memory, an intrusion, a word seeking rhyme, a presence expected and awaited. As William Bronk wrote upon its original publication, In THE ORANGERY Sorrentino makes things which are hard, gaudy and sometimes scary... They are made to last.
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Publisher:
The University of Texas Press Poetry Society Series, No. 3, 1978
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13092648197
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Close to fine and bright decorative stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Tiny attractive bookplate to opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. 12mo. 86pp. Orange cloth. Topedge a trifle foxed, else fine in a very good lightly worn dust jacket with a half-inch chip on bottom edge on front panel, short tears on edges.
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Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. 12mo. Rubbing on wraps, topedge slightly foxed, very good. The University of Texas Press Poetry Series, No. 3.
