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Very good in Very good jacket. Format is 5 inches by 9 inches. xxiv, 131, [5] pages. Frontis illustration. Includes List of Illustrations; Illustrations. Introduction by Edward M. Cifelli; Foreword by Robert M. "Mac" Cordray; The Diary; The Poems; Appendices; People and Nicknames; Acronyms and Initials; Places; and Things, etc. Also includes black and white illustrations of John Ciardi as an Aviation Cadet; Typical quarters area for non-air crew members; View of bombardier's position in B29; John Ciardi receiving Air Medal from Brigadier General Emmett (Rosie) O'Donnell (Easter 1943); John Ciardi in flight suit; John Ciardi at crap table in Sergeant's Club (Saipan); Checking upper forward turret on "Slick Dick"; Clouds over Japan from Bombardier's position on B-29; American cemetery on Saipan; Saipan natives bathing; View of bombs leaving bomb bay of B-29; Factory in Mitsubishi Japan (put out of commission after thirteen bombing missions). John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916-March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. He also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean? , which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind. Ciardi also had a network television program on CBS, Accent. This diary was discovered among John Ciardi's papers a year after his death on Easter Sunday, 1986. Following the dated entries in the diary are a number of Ciardi's poems--some never before published--written at random throughout the diary. Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.
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Fine. As new. First Printing. John Ciardi was one of the great American literary figures of the Twenthieth Century and his thought was deeply rooted in his experiences in World War II. After his death in 1986, this unpublished manuscript, in his handwriting, was found among his papers. It is a diary that he kept during his time in the Pacific from November, 1944 to Mid-March, 1945. This wonderful publication, arranged by his fellow poet Miller Williams of The University of Arkansas Press, publishes the manuscript without alteration. All spelling and punctuation has been left as found. All parenthetical and bracketed text is Ciardi's. Williams explains " it has seemed inappropriate to attempt to edit away evidence of the pressures under which most of this was written ". The Diary entries were interspersed with poetry. Many of Ciardi's comrades were killed in the War. Ciardi later said " it was luck-and poetry-that saved me ". These poems, many of them not published before, are included in this book and they are tender, sensitive, powerful verses. This is a war story of a very special man. As Edward M. Cifelli puts it in his Introduction, " It is a warm and personal story ' but " It presents images of men at war and is characterized by numerous physical descriptions ( of men, places, and battles ) as well as equally frequent psychological penetrations. This Diary and the poems are in the gendre of Robert Graves'seminal writting about World War I, published as GOODBYE TO ALL THAT and William Manchester's memoir of World War II, GOODBYE DARKNESS. Cifelli's Introduction is a very valuable essay. The Foreword is a sensitive, personal statement written by Robert M. Cordray, pilot of the B-29 on which Ciardi flew. This is a remarkable book. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover.
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