| Description |
78 pages 23 cm |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Contents |
Redcliffe Square -- Living in London -- Window -- America from Oxford, May 1970 -- Oxford -- The Serpent -- Symptoms -- Diagnosis: to Caroline in Scotland -- Hospital -- Shoes -- Juvenilia -- Rival -- Stairwell -- Walter Raleigh -- Double-Vision -- Hospital II -- Voices -- Letter -- Old Snapshot from Venice 1952 -- Caroline -- Flashback to Washington Square 1966 -- Fragility -- July-August -- Marriage? -- Morning Blue -- Summer Between Terms 1-2 -- Fall Weekend at Milgate 1-3 -- Records -- In Harriet's Yearbook -- Communication -- Dream -- Mermaid 1-5 -- The Mermaid Children -- They -- The Friend -- In the Mail -- Doubt -- Draw -- Pointing the Horns of the Dilemma -- Critic -- Winter and London -- Closed Sky -- At Offado's -- Flounder -- Mastodon -- Freud -- Harriet's Donkey -- During a Tranatlantic Call -- Exorcism 1-2 -- Plotted -- The Couple -- Before Woman -- Before the Dawn of Women -- Day -- Artist's Model 1-4 -- Mermaid Emerging -- Marriage -- Angling -- Tired Iron -- Gruff -- Leaf-Lace Dress -- Knowing -- Gold Lull -- Green Sore -- Letter -- Heavy Breathing -- Late Summer at Milgate -- Ninth Month -- Before Hospital -- Robert Sheridan Lowell -- Overhanging Cloud -- Careless Night -- Morning Away from You -- Another Summer -- Wildrose -- Dolphins -- Ivana -- Alimony -- The New -- Leaving America for England -- America -- Lost Fish -- Truth -- No Telling -- Sick -- Facing Oneself -- Foxfur -- On the End of the Phone -- Cars, Walking, Etc., An Unmailed Letter -- Flight to New York -- Plane-Ticket -- WIth Caroline at the Air-Terminal -- Purgatory -- Flight -- New York Again -- No Messiah -- Death and the Maiden -- New York -- Sleepless -- New York -- Christmas -- Christmas -- Dolphin. |
| Summary |
Provides a poetic commentary on the illusions and realities of life and love. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1974. |
| 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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| Genre/Form |
Uncorrected proofs (Printing)
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Page proofs (Printing)
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| ISBN |
0374141401 |
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9780374141400 |
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