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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EXICO
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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

All rights reserved.

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.—1st holt paperbacks ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6340-0

ISBN-10: 0-8050-6340-4

I. Title.

[PS3564.I274N5    2000]

813'.54—dc21

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