| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 495 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
"TG"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
The writer specializes in inventing the inner lives of historical and mythological figures, of which the poem "Jesus and his Mother" is an example: "Are you the boy I bore alone, / No doctor near to cut the cord? / I cannot reach to call you Lord, / Answer me as my only son." |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award, 1994 |
| Contents |
The Wound -- Here Come the Saints -- To his Cynical Mistress -- Wind in the Street -- Lazarus Not Raised -- Lofty in the Palais de Danse -- Round and Round -- Helen's Rape -- The Secret Sharer -- La Prisonniere -- Carnal Knowledge -- The Court Revolt -- The Right Possessor -- Looking Glass -- Lerici -- A Mirror for Poets -- The Beach Head -- A Kind of Ethics -- Tamer and Hawk -- Captain in Time of Peace -- Without a Counterpart -- For a Birthday -- Incident on a Journey -- On the Move -- The Nature of an Action -- At the Back of the North Wind -- Before the Carnival -- A Plan of Self-Subjection -- Birthday Poem -- First Meeting with a Possible Mother-in-Law -- Autumn Chapter in a Novel -- The Wheel of Fortune -- The Silver Age -- The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death. |
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Lines for a Book -- Elvis Presley -- Market at Turk -- In Praise of Cities -- The Allegory of the Wolf Boy -- Julian the Apostate -- Jesus and his Mother -- St Martin and the Beggar -- To Yvor Winters, 1955 -- The Inherited Estate -- During an Absence -- The Separation -- High Fidelity -- Legal Reform -- Thoughts on Unpacking -- Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book -- The Corridor -- Vox Humana -- In Santa Maria del Popolo -- The Annihilation of Nothing -- The Monster -- Readings in French -- From the Highest Camp -- Innocence -- Modes of Pleasure -- Modes of Pleasure -- A Map of the City -- The Book of the Dead -- The Byrnies -- Black Jackets -- The Value of Gold -- Claus von Stauffenberg -- Waking in a Newly Built House -- Flying Above California. |
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Considering the Snail -- 'Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt' -- Hotblood on Friday -- The Feel of Hands -- L'Epreuve -- Rastignac at 45 -- Lights Among Redwood -- Adolescence -- A Trucker -- Loot -- My Sad Captains -- The Last Man -- Memoirs of the World -- Elegy on the Dust -- The First Man -- The Goddess -- The Kiss at Bayreuth -- Berlin in Ruins -- Confessions of the Life Artist -- No Speech from the Scaffold -- Taylor Street -- The Conversation of Old Men -- The Old Woman -- Touch -- The Vigil of Corpus Christi -- From an Asian Tent -- In the Tank -- The Clock -- Back to Life -- Pierce Street -- Aqueduct -- The Inside-Outside Game -- Rites of Passage -- Moly -- For Signs -- Justin -- Phaedra in the Farm House -- The Sand Man -- Apartment Cats -- Three -- Words -- From the Wave. |
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Tom-Dobbin -- The Rooftop -- The Colour Machine -- Street Song -- The Fair in the Woods -- Listening to Jefferson Airplane -- To Natty Bumppo -- The Garden of the Gods -- Flooded Meadows -- Grasses -- The Messenger -- Being Born -- At the Centre -- The Discovery of the Pacific -- Sunlight -- The Bed -- Diagrams -- Iron Landscapes (and the Statue of Liberty) -- The Corporal -- Fever -- The Night Piece -- Last Days at Teddington -- All Night, Legs Pointed East -- The Geysers -- Three Songs: Baby Song -- Three Songs: Hitching into Frisco -- Three Songs: Sparrow -- The Plunge -- Bringing to Light -- Thomas Bewick -- Wrestling -- The Outdoor Concert -- Saturnalia -- Faustus Triumphant -- Dolly -- Jack Straw's Castle -- An Amorous Debate -- Autobiography. |
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Hampstead: the Horse Chestnut Trees -- The Road Map -- The Idea of Trust -- Courage, a Tale -- Behind the Mirror -- The Cherry Tree -- Mandrakes -- Yoko -- The Release -- Breaking Ground -- Elegy -- Adultery -- Bally Power Play -- New York -- The Conversation -- Expression -- Selves -- A Waking Dream -- Sweet Things -- The Cat and the Wind -- Small Plane in Kansas -- The Exercise -- Hide and Seek -- As Expected -- The Menace -- Song of a Camera -- Waitress -- Keats at Highgate -- His Rooms in College -- June -- Another All-Night Party -- San Francisco Streets -- The Miracle -- The Victim -- Painkillers -- Slow Waker -- The Girls Next Door -- Donahue's Sister -- At an Intersection -- A Drive to Los Alamos -- Transients and Residents: Falstaff -- Transients and Residents: Crystal. |
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Transients and Residents: Crosswords -- Transients and Residents: Interruption -- Talbot Road -- Night Taxi -- Fennel -- Venetian Blind -- A Bulletin from the Stadium -- Smoking Pot on the Bus -- '1975' -- Punch Rubicundus -- At the Barriers -- The Hug -- To a Friend in Time of Trouble -- Bone -- An Invitation -- The Differences -- Lines for My 55th Birthday -- Philemon and Baucis -- Odysseus on Hermes -- Seesaw -- A Sketch of the Great Dejection -- Patch Work -- The Life of the Otter -- Three for Children -- Skateboard -- Well Dennis O'Grady -- Outside the Diner -- Improvisation -- Old Meg -- Yellow Pitcher Plant -- Tenderloin -- Looks -- To Isherwood Dying -- The Stealer -- JVC -- Barren Leaves -- Jamesian -- Meat -- Cafeteria in Boston -- Nasturtium -- The Beautician. |
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'All Do Not All Things Well' -- The Man with Night Sweats -- In Time of Plague -- Lament -- Terminal -- Still Life -- The Reassurance -- Words for Some Ash -- Sacred Heart -- Her Pet -- Courtesies of the Interregnum -- To the Dead Owner of a Gym -- Memory Unsettled -- The J Car -- To a Dead Graduate Student -- The Missing -- Death's Door -- A Blank. |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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Poetry, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01067769
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Title |
Poems
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| ISBN |
0374126216 |
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9780374126216 |
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0374524335 (pbk.) |
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9780374524333 (pbk.) |
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