Updike, John

Hoping for a Hoopoe: Poems [British title of the work originally published as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures]

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1959. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2304988

First UK edition. Jacket price clipped, edges lightly foxed.

viii, 81 pp. Author's first book, originally published in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. This edition includes an author's note not included in the American edition. CONTENTS: Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums; Ex-Basketball Player; Player Piano; Shipbored; An Ode; The Clan; Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles are Cracked and Crooked; The Population of Argentina; Even Egrets Err; Scenic; Tune, in American Type; Lament, for Cocoa; Recitative for Punished Products; V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick; Song of the Open Fireplace; March: A Birthday Poem; Sunflower; Poetess; Pooem; Capacity; An Imaginable Conference; The Story of My Life; The Newlyweds; Humanitites Course; English Train Compartment; Time's Fool; Philological; To an Usherette; Sunglasses; Cloud Shadows; A Modest Mound of Bones; Youth's Progress; Dilemma in the Delta; A Wooden Darning Egg; Mr. High-mind; The One-Year-Old; Superman; Publius Vergilius Maro, the Madison Avenue Hick; In Memoriam; Planting a Mailbox; Tsokadze O Altitudo; Little Poems; Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers; Due Respect; Tax-Free Encounter; Room; The Sensualist; Snapshots; Mountain Impasse; A Bitter Life; Glasses; A Rack of Paperbacks; Popular Revivals, 1956; Ode III.ii : Horace; A Cheerful Alphabet of Pleasant Objects.

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