The Buddha Uproar: Poems

Santa Cruz, California: Kayak Books, 1970. Limited Edition. Octavo in yellow wraps; staple-bound; 51 unnumbered pages: color illustrations; 26 cm Very good(+); stapled wraps slightly askew from textblock; faint chipping to edge of half title page; inked gift inscription to half title page,else pages clean and crisp; binding tight. Stapled wraps.

One thousand copies printed. Published by George Hitchcock;distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco | Illustrations by Jaqueline McFarland | "One thousand copies of this book designed and printed by George Hitchcock at the kayak press" --Colophon / Tagliabue was an American poet and journalist whose literary reputation rests chiefly on a small body of formally exacting, intellectually alert verse published in the mid-twentieth century. Educated at Harvard, he moved with ease between literary and journalistic worlds, spending much of his career as a foreign correspondent—most notably for The New York Times—while maintaining a parallel commitment to poetry. His poems, which appeared in venues such as The New Yorker and Poetry, are marked by clarity of diction, controlled wit, and a cultivated moral intelligence, often drawing on classical forms without sounding antiquarian. Though never prolific and now largely overlooked, Tagliabue belongs to that cohort of mid-century American poets whose work reflects cosmopolitan experience, disciplined craftsmanship, and a quiet resistance to both confessional excess and avant-garde obscurity.