| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
177 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
December -- Early evening algebra -- Toward nightfall -- Willian and Cynthia -- At the night court -- First frost -- For the sake of Amelia -- October arriving -- Against whatever it is that's encroaching -- Promises of leniency and forgiveness -- Little pins of memory -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Letter -- Factory -- Shelley -- Betrothal -- Devils -- Evening talk -- White room -- Frightening toys -- Big war -- Death, the philosopher -- At the corner -- Word -- Pieces of the clock lie scattered -- Immortal -- Gods -- Two dogs -- Cabbage -- Paradise -- In the library -- Scarecrow -- Windy evening -- Evening chess -- City -- Penal architecture -- Prodigal -- Hotel insomnia -- Tiger -- Clouds gathering -- Folk songs -- Book full of pictures -- Evening walk -- Hotel starry sky -- To think clearly -- Chair -- Lost glove -- Romantic sonnet -- Beauty -- My quarrel with the infinite -- Old world -- Country fair -- Sinister company -- Dream avenue -- Paradise motel -- Clocks of the dead -- Explaining a few things -- Romantic landscape -- Leaves -- Transport -- Crazy about her shrimp -- Reading history -- Empires -- Tower -- Shaving -- Mystics -- Via del Tirtone -- Secret -- Mirrors at 4 A.M. -- Relaxing in a madhouse -- Late call -- Emily's theme -- Cameo appearance -- What the gypsies told my grandmother while she was still a young girl -- Charm school -- October light -- Ghosts -- At the cookout -- Club midnight -- Blood orange -- Pastoral harpsichord -- Friends of Heraclitus -- Voice at 3:00 A.M. -- Speck-sized screaming head -- Soul has many brides -- Libro de la sexualidad -- Mummy's curse -- Prison guards silhouetted against the sky -- School for visionaries -- Midsummer feast -- Obscurely occupied -- On the meadow -- Talking to the ceiling -- De occulta philosophia -- Mystic life -- Ambiguity's wedding -- Head of a doll -- Past-lives therapy -- Unmade beds -- Street of jewelers -- One to worry about -- Cherry blossom time -- Sunday papers -- And then I think -- Altar -- My father attributed immortality to waiters -- Views from a train -- Night picnic -- Car graveyard -- Wooden church -- Lives of the alchemists -- Nearest nameless -- Empty barbershop -- In the stret -- Grayheaded schoolchildren -- Serving time -- Postcard from S. -- Little night music -- Driving these roads -- Museum opens at midnight -- Party fiend -- Prompter -- Autumn sky -- Something large is in the woods -- To the one tunneling -- Separate truths -- Secret Doctrine -- Hearse -- Cafe Don Quixote -- Late September. |
| Summary |
One of the leading American poets offers a new collection of poems that plumbs the ordinary American experience for spiritual insights, wit, and historical relevance. Reprint. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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| Added Title |
Voice at three a.m. |
| ISBN |
0151008426 |
|
9780151008421 |
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