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Jacques Hnizdovsky provided woodcut illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This first edition was iIlustrated by Jane Dyer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The happy holidays card says "with love & gratitude for your great help with the exhibition & with love & very best wishes as ever, Sonja & Bill." The print appears to be an abstract image of a Pacific island (atoll). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an expanded, revised edition of a book first published in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an expanded, revised edition of a book first published in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents These poems relate the story of the trail of tears suffered by the American Indians on their forced removal to reservations. The book cover is from an engraving by the French artist Albert Dupont that first apperaed in Smith's book, Le Sentier (The Trail). From Booklist: "Smith's sequence of moving, extraordinarily visual poems brings us to the heart of one of the nation's greatest tragedies and, many say, sins--the "removal" of the five civilized tribes, via the Trail of Tears, from their homelands in the eastern U.S. to the Oklahoma territory. Part Choctaw himself, Smith uses several different voices in the sequence, such as those of an old Choctaw on the trail, remembering the "buzzard man" who presided over funeral rites, while mourning the many who died without such appropriate ritual; the great Choctaw chief, Pushmataha, who traveled to Washington in a failed attempt to gain a hearing for his people; and artist Charles Banks Wilson, sketching the last of the purebloods in...

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Smith calls this volume "a sequence of poetry" that is related to the history of the American Indians and their forced relocation from their traditional lands to Western reservations. Albert Dupont contributes a cover engraving and black and white illustration that first appeared in Le Sentier by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The wood engraving illustrations are by John De Pol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was a birthday present from William Jay Smith to Marvin Sackner. Huizdovsky contributed woodcuts to illustrate the book of love poems by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author reveals the story of a literary hoax, and the actual poems published by the Spectra poets, Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish. Smith also contributes a preface relating the hoax to contemporary cultural values. Originally published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.