| Description |
672 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"This collection of poems by the influential underground poet Kenneth Irby is the second volume of a new series of beautifully designed literary hardcovers celebrating central yet underappreciated figures of modern American poetry and literature"--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
The roadrunner poem -- Movements/sequences -- Preface -- The space made -- Bandelier -- For William Frederick Kimball, born 15 Apr 64 -- For my brother -- For round dances -- The move -- A set series for Roy Gridley -- Three variations (to follow the series for Roy Gridley) -- Sequence -- Kansas -- New Mexico -- Relation: poems 1965-1966 -- Preface -- January 1965, looking on -- Two fragments for Bill Dodd -- "It is almost 2 months since I have seen you ..." -- "I am so tired tonight ..." -- The journey itself is home -- Freedom is the unclosing of the idea -- The brief connection -- Sequence -- Gymnopédie -- Series -- 4 Oct 1965 -- Moon -- "Now may the light ..." -- "What colors are there ..." -- "Dream children -- a reverie ..." -- Relation -- "The yard of the house ..." -- Rose street -- January 1966 -- Let this time have its canto -- "The flesh of the woman ..." -- Richland cemetery, Wakarusa Township ... -- "The hills beyond ..." -- "The road to the cliffs ..." -- Three geographical variations -- Placitas poems -- Point Reyes poem -- Our conversation is in Heaven -- "There is only one world ..." -- Strike -- The flower of having passed through paradise in a dream -- (As a preface -- March 1967) -- Whoever lived in this house last (28 February 1867) -- Looking quietly for the place (6 March 1967) -- The flower of having passed through paradise in a dream (18 April 1967) -- A birthday poem (20 April 1967) -- For Gail (1-2 May 1967) -- Solstice set (22-23 June 1967) -- The eucalyptus smell in the air (29 June 1967) -- I am accustomed to sitting facing Moe's (1 August 1967) -- The light in each room of the house is different (8 August 1967) -- Now we will speak with ourselves (30 August 1967) -- The sky lit orange at sunset through two oaks (28 October 1967) -- All the months lived in this house (21 November 1967) -- To Max Douglas -- Jesus. |
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Delius -- Catalpa -- In place of a preface -- The grasslands of North America -- Berkeley -- "We might say poetry" -- "The bell of a train passing" -- Point Reyes poem, 2 -- Strawberry Canyon poem -- Equinox poem -- Summer fog -- Prose, for what I have not learned -- "Riding to sleep on this steep hill" -- "The eye / circles, and seeks" -- Notes -- Notes II -- In memoriam, Sam Thomas -- "Talking with an old friend ..." -- Narrative -- Jed Smith and the way -- "His favorite poem of Blok's ..." -- Near Equinox -- "the longer I live the more people I know " -- "At dawn, visitors from the farthest stars ..." -- September -- "Indian summer in Berkeley means" -- "so what's new?" -- for Paul Metcalf -- The Easter dream -- "Jesus, who would change" -- 3 Aug 1971, waiting at the Mediterraneum for Bean and Lowell -- "The turn North to Oregon ..." -- Tufts -- "The place of the lord of the soil ..." -- "come back to Delius Duke" -- Homage to Coleman Hawkins -- "the waltz in Appalachia" -- "Hosea Ballou, first president of Tufts, the Hall, etc." -- "Cartier from the Iroquois" -- (after Sauer) -- "Bix's in the dark and flashes" -- "John Taverner, 1495-1545" -- "Stamina comes with age" -- "John Brown bereft of beard ..." -- Late swallows -- "the crystal ballroom, Fargo, North Dakota" -- "Dr Dee stood at the edge ..." -- for Michael Brodhead -- "watchers from the dead" -- "of the sons of the morning" -- Cahokia -- "the students from Cracow leave ..." -- Voynich -- Homage to Edward Burne-Jones -- Offertory -- For the Snow Queen -- Homage to Albert Pike -- Homage to Tennyson -- "The lady of Shalott" -- Chicago -- Boston -- In Denmark -- and the old families -- a flower of solbaer -- soft gnaw over me -- [homage to Carl Fredrik Hill] -- Autumn has come again -- singing "old mince meat's here" -- Al Haig -- so came to Valldemosa -- una copa de Carlos Primero -- Eastern Kansas, borderland. |
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[Homage to the Fort Scott Albert Richardson] -- Ruth came and told me -- Ruth come down to the well -- a girl to take the place -- the hawk's belongings still -- and no words tonight -- so we will start -- sock washing with a cold -- and now the child -- face to face, ass to ass -- old distances still distances -- Robert: where we only once -- on the road to the south -- David measured out the night -- or the disappearance -- he takes it North again -- The green head and the brown sack -- on those outer banks -- [homage to John Ledyard] -- the gray serenade waltz -- straight off the boat -- (Astor Pension -- and the swan down the cold -- and by the fish wives' steps -- I will spill from her hands -- the hawk at the gates -- and not sadness, not -- the citadel of crows -- the old bed with Ruth -- so she sits, handless -- [Good Friday] -- and at the well this time -- the first morning light -- I cussed you out in bed -- the headland of Lesser Asia -- [It never entered my mind]. |
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Once again the trees -- and pissed into the drizzle -- the events of mid-December 1665 -- Tarzah, that is -- so comes a crane -- so now there is no cup -- a feeld ankker he calls it -- dark as the broadaxe people's -- In excelsis borealis -- Archipelago -- Call steps: plains, camps, stations, consistories -- Orexis -- Heredom -- lobe of opalescent glass (12 Feb) -- parsley (14 Feb) -- in the life of the laundry (15 Feb) -- [for Mary Josephine Buffington Newman] (21-26 Feb) -- even so the wavering fires (19 Mar) -- children of excitement (24 Mar) -- early summer in SE Kansas (8 Apr) -- from the camp the cries (25 Apr) -- across the street -- Running lights -- race of readiness before o'ertaken (8 Aug) -- hard to believe just some (14 Aug) -- and on that road (25 Aug) -- sometimes it's lying there (1 Sep) -- Frog Ben Webster (11 Sep) -- three streams in the Northern kingdom (13 Sep) -- 's (14 Sep) -- blood in the clouds means (14 Sep) -- morning (26 Sep) -- blood in the clouds means (14 Sep) -- morning (26 Sep) -- it never even entered my mind -- (9 Oct) -- [variation on L'homme armé] (30 Nov) -- [towards an homage to John Dunstable] (22 Nov -- 6 Dec) -- Erratics -- [overheard] (11 Mar) -- [Heredom] (3 May) -- [the Heron of oblivion] (3-4 Aug) -- I met the Angel Sus (24 Aug) -- slowly the old stone (26 Aug) -- [homage to Andrei Bely] (2 Nov) -- [two postcard views] (9 Dec) -- [given: three beavers in a tree] (winter solstice) -- Cicada woods -- The winterground -- [rocks] (29 Dec -- 2 Feb) -- [for Jack Howell -- 1] (2 Jan) -- [for Jack Howell -- 2] (4 Jan) -- hear my slow brother me (12-17 Jan) -- the distance of love (3 Feb) -- [homage to Kasimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer] (6 Feb) -- [a Valentine for Tom Meyer's birthday] (14 Feb) -- late in the winter (1 Mar) -- how useless insistence want (13 Mar) -- then pointed to the opposite hills (8 Mar-29 Apr) -- Études -- attractions, steady (2 Jan) -- even that there (8 Jan) -- time cold or (18 Jan) -- documents enter winter read (18 Jan) -- the candle lit to (2 Feb) -- made out of distance (7-8 Feb) -- silver vessels in the bed (28 Feb) -- steps of the camp (10 Mar) -- love left than a (26 Mar) -- call snown draw (22 Apr -- 5 May) -- back into the darkening foliage (21 May) -- cross to her (21 May) -- smaller than almonds (21 May). |
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Headed for the swimming pool (21 May) -- brood(s) the woods (23 May) -- angelical (25 May) -- make a heart out of (2 Jun) -- reach to the pell (2 Jun) -- but orexis (3 Jun) -- no one cares (5 Jun) -- gone to a quiet (6 Jun) -- [homage to Sōtatsu's Bugaku] (13 Jun) -- or a man carries a pot (18 Jun) -- & so'd see into the undersun (23-24 Jun) -- sadness a wonder (I Jul) -- dinosaur browse (15 Jul) -- one black currant seed (15 Aug) -- trees pass (27 Aug-2 Sep) -- study is the gate of justice (2 Sep) -- between what is seen (heard) (6 Sep) -- dark urchin sun (20 Sep) -- cottonwood lingerers (8 Nov) -- [requiem étrudes · for Louis Zukofsky] (Mar-Sep) -- Strings -- [homage to Carolan] (3-4 Sep) -- [Charles Filiger's Breton Cowherd] (7 Sep-7 Nov) -- [embarras de] (8 Sep) -- [homage to Johannes Bobrowski] (12 Sep) -- dark warm day (13 Sep) -- what can trust take (17 Sep) -- restless, the rain returns (20 Sep) -- look close at who lies next to you (20-21 Sep) -- [equinox variations] (4-24 Sep) -- [homage to the Dodonaean Rilke] (4 Oct) -- fog dreams, drop dreams (11 Oct) -- might bean egg (21 Oct) -- whether at fault (24 Oct) -- well who the hell can I have here (22 Nov) -- [Winter saeta] (6 Dec) -- no animal system lately (11 Dec) -- [- and to Artemis] (24 Dec) -- Bowls -- a silence in the central tree (2 Jan) -- I saw the mouse king last night (4 Jan) -- [for Jonathan Williams' 50th birthday] (8 Jan) -- our makers beside us (22 Jan) -- last night I was weeping (28 Jan) -- tears, for a lodge of sorrow (10 Feb) -- something about (13 Feb) -- [two requiem études] (14-22 Feb) -- the chamber of reflection (1 Mar) -- pogo sticks à Poulenc (9 Mar) -- to accumulate rites (14 Mar) -- [reading Blok] (2 May) -- [Lilacs K. Kat] (3 May) -- blackhead-freckled Howdy Doody (4 Jun) -- [soar heart overhead] (27 Jun) -- Skodnick asks about (6 Jul) -- [SLC, Howard Johnson's] (4 Sep) -- [Reunion] (5 Nov) -- [pastorale] (12 Nov) -- [for Ken Grenier] (5 Dec) -- [homage to Nicolas Poussin] (9 Dec) -- A set. -- Ridge to ridge: poems 1990-2000 -- a life into a few vegetables -- some high new tangerine wax fancy -- [a small classical flagstone landscape mystery, as wool to murex] -- [vistas, over Lammas] -- [2 February 1992] -- The flecks of other colors on the worn crayola tips -- Evangel of the morning -- [to almost midnight New Year's Eve in Glasgow] -- Moroni on the play -- that after all to walk into a restaurant may be -- The antiphonal protagonists take pause. |
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[Transcontinental] -- September set -- Mimosa, sensitive, the mime -- The station is the sphincter -- So my mother has poured -- healing machines -- The parable and trumps -- [homage to Richard Lovelace] -- I have a chair in the stair well -- But the cocklight is of the light above -- [final exam] -- To have a guest -- The boys are sitting on the front steps -- Would you take the diaphany of ivory -- Would that I might be rubbed away -- There is the bare and rich delight -- On a winejug tree -- The down of stone is speckled and flown -- [Homage to Kandinsky and -- composition / improvisation, starting with an affirmation by Hartley] -- [Visitations] -- Five eggs -- [Instructions] -- The king's seal and the king's reef are in the sky -- [Borrowers] -- The quiet intricate interior forest -- [at Rubén Darío's birthday] -- [syzygos] -- [tulip études] -- [étude homage, Religio Medici] -- [-and with respects to James Davidson's Courtesans and fishcakes] -- [Sotto voce] -- [Ides] -- Studies: cuts ; shots ; takes -- lūdus, lūdere (18 Aug) -- études of massive (19 Aug) -- mirrors that reflect (24 Aug) -- the window shattered (26 Aug) -- the orchard ground (31 Aug) -- nobody knows everybody (4 Sep) -- it is not always (11 Sep) -- patchouli (12 Sep) -- there is enough (14 Sep) -- along the grain (16 Sep) -- but the sun (19 Sep) -- the sidewalks are (19 Sep) -- last night I saw (26 Sep) -- so you leave (28 Sep) -- into the month (30 Sep-2 Oct) -- the new moon (10 Oct) -- there is a part (12 Oct) -- the hyacinth vine's (14 Oct) -- what are the (16 Oct) -- in Alvin's parking lot (24 Oct) -- I knew the patoo (30 Oct) -- my shmoo gourd (31 Oct) -- on that estate (11 Nov) -- Plotinus wrote (13 Nov) -- is that made (18 Nov) -- and who lie down (24 Nov) -- Dale Hawkins (30 Nov) -- if I can be (5 Dec) -- [For Ed Dorn: 2 Apr 1929 -- 10 Dec 1999] (12-18 Dec) -- when Robert Duncan (18 Dec) -- certainly what you (23 Dec) -- when I went out (24 Dec) -- the day's the year's (25 Dec) -- Monica here (28 Dec) -- in the winter (29 Dec) -- "hello" (30 Dec) -- the prairie winter. |
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Uncollected: 1964-2006 -- Poem for Ron Loewinsohn -- The absence -- Photograph -- Evening poem -- 31 Oct 1964 -- Second evening poem 31 Oct 1964 -- "It takes a worried man to sing a wearied song" -- "The faults along which the tremor runs" -- [Developments from a dream the night of 2-3 Feb 1971] -- ["It is not discoverable ...] -- [Record] -- January 1972 -- The recurrence of beginnings -- Carrison St., Berkeley -- January 1972 -- Journal entry -- 28 Aug 1972 -- (A suite of recent fragments -- copied out for Ted -- 18 Jan 1973) -- lightning steers all things -- Heraclitus -- [Planks turned to marble] -- [Grayhound station in DC, c. 1345, bus to Annapolis at 1430] -- "crow talk, woodpecker, brother clouds ..." -- [en route KC-StL, c. 1940] -- [SLC overheard, Howard Johnson's, c. 0510, on to Denver at 0630] -- [trash] -- of curly beechbark oak -- midwinter days -- the dog-gazed onion -- so you come again -- to look into the pits of -- [excercitatio/praecipere] -- [sophrosyne spring muse overhand ; Memorial day] -- I have fetched phoenix papers -- [still] call steps -- three short odes] -- [three sets of three -- I] -- [three sets of three -- II] -- [broideries on two sufic dicta] -- [Rückblick -- with the three sets] -- [three sets of three -- III] -- [study] -- doctor into the night life -- [Some March notes, 1995] -- [nostos ; kuboå] for Stan Lombardo -- ("Our backyard pavilion ... ") -- ("When I was younger ... ") -- [Some notes on house and woods] for Gerrit -- [Notes] -- [Feb/Apr 2004] -- [Written on Tome Meyer's birthday, 2004] -- [March set 2004] -- [written on Chuck Stein's 60th birthday ; 23 Aug 2004] -- [Record] -- [Studies] -- [on Edmund Waller's 400th birthday, 3 Mar 2006] -- [on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 200th birthday, 6 Mar 2006] -- [on Benito Juárez' 200th birthday (and J.S. Bach's 321st), 21 Mar 2006] -- [a nocturne of the day -- James Huneker] -- [plain lines ; versos sencillos] -- [Homage]. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Waugh, Kyle.
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Console-Șoican, Cyrus.
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| ISBN |
9781556438332 (hbk.) |
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1556438338 (hbk.) |
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