Authors: John Nichols
The Nirvana Blues (92 page)
The Wizard of Loneliness
A Ghost in the Music
American Blood
An Elegy for September
Conjugal Bliss
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RILOGY
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Magic Journey
The Nirvana Blues
Nonfiction
If Mountains Die
(with William Davis)
The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn
On the Mesa
A Fragile Beauty
The Sky's the Limit
Keep It Simple
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Copyright © 1981 by John Treadwell Nichols
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Portions of this work have appeared in
TriQuarterly
(Spring 1980), in
Taos Magazine
(Summer 1980), and in
Voices from the Rio Grande
in a slightly different form.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Princeton University Press for permission to quote excerpts from
The I Ching or Book of Changes,
the Richard Wilhelm translation rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes. Bollingen Series XIX. Copyright © 1950, ©1967 by Princeton University Press. Copyright renewed © 1977 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-
The nirvana blues / John Nichols.â1st holt paperbacks ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6340-0
ISBN-10: 0-8050-6340-4
I. Title.
[PS3564.I274N5Â Â Â Â 2000]
813'.54âdc21
99-39457
CIP
Originally published in hardcover in 1981 by Henry Holt and Company
First Holt Paperbacks Edition 2000
eISBN 9781466859623
First eBook edition: October 2013