@mcgunin Really, I am thankful for bringing back my attention to Steve Smith. Actually, I like your description of his poetry so you got me interested. Let us know about Dubelaar's answer, or if you ever get some kind of digital copy from Canada. Thank you very much. Actially, the reply from him ha...

I'd like to thank Tom Sakic for ideas on where to search further. Letters were sent. Will be waiting for any reply from them.

Here's a poem of mu relative, Leon (Lev) Gunin, who lives in Montreal: birds birds of unknown thoughts are flying in inner sky the day is red in the midst of mountains of the internal realm nothing happens only deep deep silence without any desire however birds are flying even without thinking just ...

Hum... To buy a book or borrow a book, or receiving it as a gift I don't know other way of reading text, so excuse me if I did not understand on the firts reading what you meant - I'm very straight. Well, I only meant that there seems to be no collections of Bowles poetry online (like, for example,...

Well, here's that book, I've managed to find the details: AMICUS No. 11539612 Monograph NLC COPIES: Preserv - off site - PS8537 M66 P63 1962 - NO ILL NAME(S):*Smith, Steve, 1943-1964 Brainin, Carole TITLE(S): Poems / Steve Smith and Carole Brainin PUBLISHER: Montreal : Printed by Dany's Press, c1962...

Thanks a lot to everyone who takes part in this discussion. Things are getting more clear and more misterious at the same time. However, after reading Smith's book I can agree that he and Cohen might not necessarily have known each other personally. The dedication from Cohen might have been reasoned...

Excuse in advance my complete ignorance of Paul Bowles and my mania of playing with search engines, but maybe you could find more info on this web site (if this is about the "good" PB) : http://www.paulbowles.org/enter.html Thank you. This is a great site, I've seen it before. However, th...

Hello, let me ask another question please: I like Paul Bowles as a novelist, however, never managed to find any of his poems. Does anyone here have some poems in text format to be shown?

Thanks!

Good day to everybody! I'd like to ask anyone who could help me for any information about Steve Smith, a poet mentioned in a dedication of Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers". The story is: Leonard's novel has once made a great impact on my literary tastes and I've been (and still am) an av...