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Admirable be By Henry Green Night Desk by Carl Strango; Eureka Press; (4.00. Books of poetry, as a rule, do not set the world of publishing on fire. They do not make wild and woolly runaway bestsellers. n,ven esiaunsnea poeis ao noi sell anytmng on the order of The Godfather, and those who are not established can expect to sell very few copies indeed. Yet for the people who buy those few copies one can find some rather pleasant reading between the covers of slim, 31-page volumes. Admittedly, some of this slimvolume poetry ? done by ambitious high school students and affluent collegians ? is so putrid that only the author's mother would want to own a copy. This is not the case, however, with Night IIpkIi hv thp hrnthprs Pari and Thnmac Strange. They delve into something more than five-line poems with three words to each line, and they have definitely not fallen into the Mickey Mouse slosh of sentiments. The Strange brothers are no budding Byrons, to be sure, but their work is thoughtful and easy to read (actually, only Carl wrote the poems, while Thomas illustrated the book). Consider, for example, "October 2024," a meditation on an autumn night and what autumn has come to symbolize ? the onslaught of old age: Have fifty summers disappeared? I wonder; younger friends have gone Where they with older phantoms ride October night rides ever on Novelist King < spooky short By David Baker Night Shllt by Stephen King; Signet; $2.50. Sqtephen King's Night Shift is a collectior would have been better had they remained unc King has become quite famous recently v. Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining. Each excellent horror story that succeeds because writing and because of his slow building of susj: i ne stones contained within Night Shift are style, but since none of the stories is over 35 p little time to accomplish very much with them. This is not to say that the stories are not i manage to be frightening (or at the very leas second or two, but all of them have endings tha gotten rolling when he discovered that he had paragraph. The result is virtually every story in Night SI literary equivalent of a tease. They arouse one m;itVi n : : 1; n II1UI uuglliy UUUUI1VIIIUIII^ uiiuni^ ? one "Strawberry Spring" and "The Man Who Lov best examples of this out-of-the-blue type of enc The best story in the Night Shift collection worth reading ? is called "Trucks," though it that King based it on a bad dream he had a episodes of Night Gallery. "Trucks" takes place in and around a tri handful of people are being held captive by a 1 in the parking lot (i.e. one false move and it's "J The story might sound a bit stupid, but Kinf eerie atmosphere and such unforgettable ima he had made a novel out of "Trucks" and flush Night Shift down the drain. >ok of poetrj inese younger friends, who have not as long as the narrator, have yet achic kind of immortality in their being toms, or at least a kind of afterlife i memory of the narrator. The theme age ? creeping closer and closer, gr bigger and bigger like an unstop tumor, closing in and slowly suffocat is explored further in such poems as 44 Desk." Time seems to pass more quic! ~1 J ? 4 ^ 1 * unc gcu> uiuer ? now qusk a mmuie s comes." A depressing sentiment is express "We Are Cars," in which human beinj compared to their vehicles; "sleek radiant and fast and confident" when v young, we gradually start to chok< sputter and cough more and more un have little to look forward to except and weeds" of the junkyard ? o graveyard, the inevitable result o process of aging feared in "October and "Night Desk." Another description of the epheme found in "Ode to Untaken Photograph many images pass us by without our 1 care to make those images tangible better that we do not, because in m them into photographs, or describing in words, for that matter, these image something of their essence: Frames won't contain you Film won't endure. Night Desk is not a bad book of poe is light but reasonably satisfying read there is nothing awesome about it, a stated before, but it goes beyond the of prattle. ( i zreates m stories J i of 20 short stories that ollected and in obscurity. 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