60,000 used books browsed...

and the following purchases made, from the lovely and thorough Kaboom Books on Barracks Street:



Chamber Music by James Joyce: Own this already, but not in this slim pocket-sized green paperback from Grossman Publishers/Cape Editions.



Contemporary German Poetry translated by Eswald Osers: A bright orange saddle-stapled chap from Oleander Modern Poets series, 1976. Contains lots of new-to-me names.



Théo, or the New Era by Robert Pinget, translated by Barbara Wright. I just really dig this guy, but haven't read this one.



Relics: Poems by Elton Glaser. Wesleyan University Press, New Poets Series, 1984. His first book?



Blues Words by Roger Manning. A handwritten blue chap from 1993.



And best of all, Now See Here, Homes by Horace Mungin. The author subtitles the black typewritten stock-covered 1969 chap with the following: "The second book of black contemporary poetry." Here's a lil poem:



Down Home Blues Comes Up Home



Funky, Funky, Funky

Feel like a dirty

low-life Donkey.

Funky, Funky, Funky

treated like a dirty

unfed Donkey.



Lord, each time I

try to take a part

they put broomsticks

through my heart.

Now ain't that Funky.



Funky, Funky, Funky

Feel like a dirty

low-life Donkey.



One 'these days

I'm gonna rise

take their fingers

out my eye

and see whose been

Funkey.