Introduction to Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)
Mailer's introduction to the New American Library softcover reissue of his 1962 book of poems, ending by reprinting Time's hostile 1962 review and his poetic response.
Mailer’s introduction (five unnumbered pages) to the New American Library softcover reissue of Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3), published in December 1971. He ends the introduction by reprinting Time’s hostile 30 March 1962 review of the first edition and his own poetic response to it (62.8), closing: “Instead, the review in Time put iron into my heart again, and rage, and the feeling that the enemy was more alive than ever … and so one had to mend, and put on the armor, and go to war, go out to war again, and try to hew huge strokes with the only broadsword God ever gave you, a glimpse of something like Almighty prose.” Reprinted in Mind of an Outlaw (14.3).
Related pages
- Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3)
- New American Library
- 1971
- Poem to the Book Review at Time (62.8) | Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (14.3)