| Description |
84 pages 21 cm. |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Carcanet: after our war -- That man -- The guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge -- Pentangle -- A floating opera -- Along the Mekong -- Mother Egret -- Writes Xenophanes, before choosing exile -- Orpheus slaughtered near the river -- Orpheus in the upper world -- Hissarlik -- Mau Than -- Graveyard at Bald Eagle Ridge -- Appalachian train stop -- Having discovered a snail shell, the poet presents it in the metaphysical manner -- Blue morning coat -- The gardenia in the moon -- For Mary Bui Thi Khuy, 1944-1969 -- The dragonfish -- To P.T., a poet, who holds that good poets are always nice people (even Robert Frost) -- Epithalamium for Alex Clokie Clarke -- Bereft of Morpheus, a poet is visited by his muse -- The field -- Venturing out -- Harvesting ducks -- Talking about birds -- Riddle: the heart, like a calf's head, when? -- A grain of actuality begins the poem -- For Miss Tin in hue -- Country excursion: a Brown study collage -- Rain -- Nixon imperator Augustus -- A riddle -- A Latter-Day Saxon Bathes at Bournemouth -- Palindrome for Clyde Coreil in Saigon -- Letter from a bargirl -- Communiqué -- Li Po and the Peacock King -- Sunset along the shore -- At the exiled King's river pavilion -- Polluted place -- Don Diego Garcia -- Ship of redemption -- A court is likened to an inner landscape -- On a photograph of schoolchildren wearing gas masks Rheims, World War I -- Children at play and at sleep -- The house at evening -- Some commonplaces of the times -- May letter -- Hand-painted birthday card: abandoned farmhouse -- Peleus sees the birth of Aphrodite -- Lines form the Arabic -- In Hyperborea -- Midnight at Phoenix Island in the Mekong -- Saying good-by to Mr. and Mrs. My, Saigon, 1972 -- Erhart. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Balaban, John, 1943- After our war. [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press [1974] (OCoLC)562302905 |
| ISBN |
0822952475 |
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9780822952473 |
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