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Ring of Bone
Ring of Bone
Collected Poems 1950-1971

by Lew Welch
A Grey Fox/ City Lights Title
0-912516-03-8
233pp
$12.95



"Ring of Bone might be called a spiritual autobiography arranged in more or less chronological sequence. But this does not always mean that poems near the beginning were written first. The mind grows in a flickering kind of way. Sometimes an insight comes too early to be fully understood. At other times, we are shocked that it came, being so obvious, so late....

The shape of Ring of Bone is circular, or back and forth. Naturally such a form never ends. The principal characters are The Mountain, The City, and The Man who attempts to understand and live with them."

– Lew Welch, from the Preface



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