The Creature's Choir
New York: Viking Press, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. slim hardcover. Fine in dust jacket, price clipped and with a small chip top left edge of front panel. Illustrated endpapers. 69 pp. Translated from the French and with a foreword by Rumer Godden and decorations by Jean Primrose. Rumer Godden first discovered de Gasztold's "Prayers From The Ark" in 1962, a book that soon became a worldwide classic and bestseller. In this sequel, says Godden in the foreword, ".. Most of these new poems are not prayers...each animal, bird, fish, reptile, or insect voice makes, as it were a statement of its situation, its circumstances, what we humans would call its problems...". The new menagerie introduced in this book includes twenty-five engaging, assertive, sly, , or self-deperciating of God's creatures. Fine / very good. Item #E27313
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