| Edition |
1st pbk. ed. |
| Description |
289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
The summer anniversaries (1960) -- Anniversaries -- Song -- To a ten-months' child -- The poet at seven -- The snowfall -- Landscape with little figures -- On the death of friends in childhood -- The wall -- A dream sestina -- Sestina on six words by Weldon Kees -- Here in Katmandu -- The metamorphosis -- Southern gothic -- Sonnet to my father -- Beyond the hunting woods -- Tales from a family album -- Thus -- Variations on a theme from James -- Ladies by their windows -- Women in love -- Love's stratagems -- A map of love -- Speaking of islands -- Sonnet about P. -- Another song -- In Bertram's garden -- The stray dog by the summerhouse -- Anthony St. Blues -- A winter ode to the old men of Lummus park, Miami, Florida -- Counting the mad -- On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the insane -- The satan in heaven -- "Bad dreams" and other early poems (1948-1962) -- Two sonnets -- The return of Alcestis -- Autobiography -- Two songs from Don Juan in Hell -- The metamorphoses of a vampire -- Monologue in a attic -- From bad dreams -- The furies -- Night Light (1967) -- Orpheus opens his morning mail -- Time and the weather -- To the unknown lady who wrote the letters found in the hatbox -- The grandfathers -- Dreams of water -- Ode to a dressmaker's dummy -- Memory of a porch -- But that is another story -- Heart -- Girl sitting alone at party -- Party -- A local storm -- Variations for two pianos -- Anonymous drawing -- To waken a small person -- American sketches -- After a phrase abandoned by Wallace Stevens -- Elsewheres -- Men at forty -- Early poems -- The thin man -- The missing person -- The man closing up -- Hands -- The evening of the mind -- For the suicides of 1962 -- The tourist from Syracuse -- Bus stop -- Incident in a rose garden -- In the greenroom -- At a rehearsal of "Uncle Vanya" -- Last days of prospero -- Memo from the desk of X -- For a freshman reader -- To the hawks -- Poem for a survivor -- Narcissus at home -- Departures (1973) -- ABC -- Fragment: To a mirror -- A letter -- A dancer's life -- Portraits of the sixties -- Lethargy -- Luxury -- The telephone number of the Muse -- Twenty Questions -- On the night of the departure by bus -- White notes -- The confession -- The success -- The assassination -- 1971 -- Lorcaesques -- From a notebook -- Riddle -- Things -- An elegy is preparing itself -- Variations on a text by Vallejo -- Poem -- Homage to the memory of Wallace Stevens -- Sonatina in green -- Sonatina in yellow -- Three odes -- Absences -- Presences -- Selected poems (1979) -- Little elegy -- First death -- Two blues -- Unflushed urinals -- Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, Texas -- Memories of the depression years -- In the attic -- Thinking about the past -- Childhood -- The sunset maker (1987) -- Lines at the New Year -- Mule team and poster -- My south -- American scenes (1904-1905) -- Nineteenth-century portrait -- Young girls growing up (1911) -- Children walking home from school through good neighborhood -- October: A song -- Sea Wind: A song -- Last evening: At the piano -- Psalm and lament -- In memory of my friend, the bassoonist, John Lenox -- In memory of the unknown poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn -- Hell -- Villanelle at sundown -- Nostalgia and complaint of the grandparents -- Cinema and ballad of the great depression -- Manhattan dawn (1945) -- Nostalgia of the lakefront -- Tremayne -- Mrs. Snow -- The pupil -- The piano teachers: A memoir of the the thirties -- After-School Practice: A short story -- The sunset maker -- New and selected poems (1995) -- On a picture by Burchfield -- The artist Orpheus -- Lorca in California -- A variation on Baudelair's "La Servante au grand coeur" -- Invitation to a ghost -- Vague memory from childhood -- The Miami of other days -- On an anniversary -- A man of 1794 -- Body and soul -- On a woman of spirit who taught both piano and dance -- Dance lessons of the thirties -- Banjo dog variations -- Pantoum of the great depression -- Sadness -- New Poems -- Epitaph for a pair of old shoes -- "Sonya sits at the piano, practicing" -- The voice of Col. von Stauffenberg ascending through the smoke and dull flames of purgatory -- Ralph: A love story -- Couplets concerning time -- At the young composers' concert -- School letting out -- The small white churches of the small white towns -- A chapter in the life of Mr. Kehoe, fisherman -- "There is a gold light in certain old paintings." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Added Title |
Poems
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| ISBN |
037571054X |
|
9780375710544 |
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