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fourth pub-lished volume of poems and his best.In it he broadens and deepens therange of his sensitivity,disciplined tothe complexity of the world he ob-serves.The observation is alwaystender and immediate,the reportsometimes ironic and on other occa-sions amused and elegant.This is apoet committed to the explorations ofmiddle-aged life in several worldswithin the total impact of experience;nature for one,the family for another.The inner world of the self is takenhere both directly and indirectly.  \nA poet is a poet.Hollis Summers(Continued on back fap)  \nRUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESSNew Brunswick·New Jersey  \nBOYCE PS3537.U72 P4Summers.Hollis Spurgeon,  \nThe peddler and other domestic matters  \n303920000019121B  \nPS3537  \nU72P4  \n690929  \n\n| DATE DUB   |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| DEC197   | 3   |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |\n| GAYLORDM-2   |  |  | PRIRTED IR U.8.A.   |\n\nCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTYBOYCE CA1PUSLIBRARY  \nx  \n# the Peddlerand Other Domestic Matters\n\nCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTYBOYCE CAMPUSLIBRARY  \nby Hollis Summers  \nPOET RY  \nThe Walks Near Athens  \nSomeone Else,Sixteen Poems About  \nOther Children  \nSeven Occasions  \nFICTIO N  \nCity Limit  \nBrighten the Corner  \nThe Weather of February  \nthe  \nPeddler  \nand OtherDomestic Matters  \nby Hollis SummersU72P4Ps3537  \nCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTYBOYCE CAivrUSLIBRARY  \nRUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nNew Brunswick,New Jersey  \nCopyright   1967 by Rutgers,The State UniversityLibrary of Congress Catalogue Card Number:67-28414  \nManufactured in the United States of America  \nThe author and publisher are grateful for permission to reprint poemswhich first appeared in the following periodicals:  \nThe American Scholar:“Diano Marino to Aix en Provence”and“Sermon”;The Christian Century:“The State of Statues”;The Col-orado Quarterly:“Bridge Freezes Before Road Surfac”;KentuckyWriting Four:“Woodland”;Epoch:“Fraternity House”;Impetus:\"The Old Man Opens His Eyes\";The Minnesota Review:\"Inscriptionfor the Back of a Parlor's Blind”;New Mexico Quarterly:“Lilies”and“The Gift”;North American Review:“The Lake Country”;Ohio Uni-versity Review:\"Decor,”“Profert,\"“Love Poem,\"and“A CertainPoet Addresses His Reader”;Page:“To the Warrior's Mistress”;Per-spective:“At the Wax Museum”and\"The Performance\";PoetryNorthwest:\"The June Nuns\"and “\"The Belonging”;Prairie Schooner:\"Song to Be Attached,\"“The Maple Sugar Girls,\"and “The TravelerHopes God Is Familiar with the Earth”;Quarterly Review of Litera-ture:“Lines Not to Be Thought of\";Saturday Review:\"The Veloci-pede,”“The Progress,”\"\"Hickory Dickery,\"and\"The Delivery”;Southern Poetry Review:“October 15,Cadiz”;The Western Humani-ties Review:“The Court Poet’s Last Poem”;Wormwood Review:“Golden Anniversary”;The Writer's Voice:“Last Poem.\"  \nFor 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