As it turns out, the poems of Loren Eiseley, gathered under the title Notes of an Alchemist, are some of the very best I’ve read. As I mentioned a few days ago, the book was published in 1972 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, and I was lucky enough to find a copy here in a Salem used bookstore. A quick search online, though, shows the volume is still readily available — […]
Notes of an AlchemistPoems by Loren EiseleyIllustrated by Laszlo KubinyiNew York : Charles Scribner’s Sons (1972) Found in a local used bookstore, after what struck me as a dreary drive past pot stores, fast food joints, and numerous other businesses that have no reason for existing, other than to satisfy a society that prizes bad habits and unhealthy living; past men and women pushing shopping carts bearing all of their […]
William Michaelian 