IT TAKES PRACTICE NOT TO DIE
Elizabeth Bartlett
It Takes Practice Not to Die was originally published in 1964by Van Riper and Thompson in Santa Barbara, California. The bookis now out-of-print and the publisher no longer exists.The author's literary executor, Steven James Bartlett, hasdecided to make the book available as an open access publication,freely available to readers through Project Gutenberg underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivslicense, which allows anyone to distribute this work withoutchanges to its content, provided that both the author and theoriginal URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned,that the contents of this work are not used for commercialpurposes or profit, and that this work will not be used withoutthe copyright holder's written permission in derivative works(i.e., you may not alter, transform, or build upon this workwithout such permission). The full legal statement of thislicense may be found at:
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IT TAKES PRACTICE NOT TO DIE
IT
TAKES
PRACTICE
NOT TO
DIE
BY
ELIZABETH
BARTLETT
VAN RIPER & THOMPSON, INC.
SANTA BARBARA 1964
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of these poems appeared in the following anthologies:The American Scene, The Golden Year, New Poems By AmericanPoets II, New Voices 2.
Thanks are also due to the Beloit Poetry Journal, ChelseaReview, Commentary, The Critic, Dalhousie Review, ETC.,Fiddlehead, Harper's, Harper's Bazaar, Literary Review, NewMexico Quarterly, New York Times, Odyssey, Poetry Dial,Queen's Quarterly, Quixote, San Francisco Review, SaturdayReview, Tamarack Review, Yale Literary Magazine.
Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 64-22731
Copyright 1964 by Elizabeth Bartlett
First Edition
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce thisbook or parts thereof in any form, except for reviewpurposes.
Printed in the United States of America
TO
PAUL AND STEVEN
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Poems of Yes and No
Behold This Dreamer
Poetry Concerto
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