| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 90 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
You who swim -- Dream and reality -- The solitary pond -- Leaving church early -- The house growing -- Query -- Late January -- Touch of spring -- Melting -- Bath after sailing -- On an island -- Wind -- Poisoned in Nassau -- Raining in Magens Bay -- Sleepless in Scarsdale -- Sunday in Boston -- Apologies to Harvard -- Commencement, Pingree School -- A L'Ecole Berlitz -- South of the Alps -- Calder's hands -- The cars in Caracas -- Business acquaintances -- Upon shaving off one's beard -- Insomnia the gem of the ocean -- To a waterbed -- Courtesy call -- The jolly greene giant -- Authors' residences -- Painted wives -- Milady reflects -- Seven new ways of looking at the moon -- Skyey developments -- News from the underworld -- Sin City, D.C. -- A bicycle chain -- The melancholy of storm windows -- The grief of cafeterias -- Rats -- Sand dollar -- Tossing and turning -- Living with a wife. |
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(Cont.) Marching through a novel -- Night flight, over ocean -- Golfers -- Pale bliss -- Cunts -- Pussy -- Sunday -- Sunday rain -- Phenomena -- Boil -- Mime -- Note to the previous tenants -- Dutch cleanser -- Heading for Nandi. |
| Summary |
A collection of fifty-six of Updike's poems, dealing with a wide variety of subjects. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Updike, John. Tossing and turning. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1977 (OCoLC)565123890 |
| ISBN |
0394410904 |
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9780394410906 |
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