I been working on the railroad...

cirerita · Mar 26, 2011

This poem seems uncollected, but it sounds all-too-familiar. Maybe B. told the same things in a short-story?

David · Mar 26, 2011

Yep, in "Notes of A Dirty Old Man," Open City, January 1968.Published in a really cool German illustrated edition as Einmal New Orleans und Zuruck."

mjp · Mar 26, 2011

One detail I found interesting when I was reading that:

I don't know if we ever discussed that...the fact that the Webbs didn't bind Crucifix. I think the common assumption is that they did everything.

cirerita · Mar 26, 2011

Yest, that's the common assumption, but I think he discusses in the (unpublished?) correspondence who did bind Crucifix.

Purple Stickpin · Mar 26, 2011

The text in It Catches... implies that the Webbs bound that one. If that is the case, I wonder why they were unable to bind Crucifix.

mjp · Mar 27, 2011

Probably the difference between 777 and 3100 copies...four times more books - that's a lot more work.

number6horse · Mar 28, 2011

That was news to me that Webb didn't do the binding. Thanks for the info and thanks for the poem. It's a beauty.

roni · Mar 30, 2011

David said:
[...] Published in a really cool German illustrated edition as Einmal New Orleans und Zuruck."

... by Benno Kaesmayr from MARO who was the one who first published Hanks poetry in the early 70s. Hail Benno!

Rekrab · Mar 30, 2011

That is news. I thought they did it themselves.