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

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In his epilogue Bill Smith describes his encounter when "my friend the eminent pulmonologist Dr. Marvin Sackner found that the hospital had misread" an x-ray and was responsible for a pulmonary diagnosis that saved Smith from unnecessary lung surgery. -- 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.

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 book object unfolds to form a pyramid. This sample copy from Dorny to Smith is an incomplete copy of a book object done in collaboration with Kenneth White, " Le Triangle Atlantique." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustration is a reproduction of a water color by Gary Bukovnik and the poem about a tulip is by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.