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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Inscribed by Cassells on the FFEP. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light handling on the boards, light spotting along the spine. Text unmarked. Some foxing on the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket shows some light handling, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xii, 84pp.
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New York. 1982. May 1982. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 003061371x. Part Of The National Poetry Series. Selected by Al Young. 104 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrfara. keywords: Black Poetry America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Mud Actor is a single work in three parts, where identity and disguise move us to a deeper confrontation with history, with the living and the dead. Cyrus Cassells has drawn these scenes from meditations, including work in hypnotic regression, yet the images and language are fresh, delicate, strongly evocative, and wholly in the service of the poetry. The book begins in childhood, where the wisdom and lore of family past twines itself into the present. A second section of poems speaks in voices from fin de siEcle France, in exquisitely felt and treasured, playful moments. The last sequence of poems is set in Japan, where the author traveled in 1978 and found himself strongly drawn to the culture of the country. His travels led him finally to a dream that he calls a memory, a memory of his death at Hiroshima. This is the subject of the book's magnificent and passionate final poem. Perhaps his meditations have brought him to a discovery of his own reincarnation-or perhaps they have allowed him to discover a vital metaphor for brotherhood through the multiple identities that lie within any one person-and so have led him to an understanding of history, responsibility, and the continuity of life that is the greatest act of the imagination. inventory #25626.
