| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 113 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 113). |
| Contents |
For the Record -- North American Time -- Education of a Novelist -- Virginia 1906 -- Dreams Before Waking -- When/Then -- Upcountry -- One Kind of Terror: A Love Poem -- In the Wake of Home -- What Was, Is; What Might Have Been, Might Be -- For an Occupant -- Emily Carr -- Poetry: I, II, III -- Baltimore: a fragment from the Thirties -- New York -- Homage to Winter -- Blue Rock -- Yom Kipper 1984 -- Edges -- Look: this is January the worst onslaught -- Heart of cold. Bones of cold. Scalp of cold -- My mouth hovers across your breasts -- He slammed his hand across my face and I -- She is carrying my madness and I dread her -- Dear Adrienne: I'm calling you up tonight -- Dear Adrienne: I feel signified by pain -- I'm afraid of prison. Have been all these years. -- Tearing but not yet torn: this page -- Night over the great and the little worlds -- I came out of the hospital like a woman -- Violance as purification: the one idea -- Trapped in one idea, you can't have your feelings -- Lately in my dreams I hear long sentences -- You who think I find words for everything -- It's true, these last few years I've lived -- I have backroads I take to places -- The problem, unstated till now, is how -- If to feel is to be unreliable -- The tobacco fields lie fallow-the migrant pickers -- The cat-tails blaze in the corner-sunflowers -- In a bald skull sits our friend in a helmet -- You know the Government must have pushed them to settle -- Someone said to me: It's just that we don't -- Did anyone ever know who we were -- You: air-driven-reft-from the tuber-bitten soil -- The Tolstoyans: the Afro-American slaves -- This high summer we love will pour its light -- You who think I find words for everything. |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- California -- Santa Cruz County.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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California -- Santa Cruz County.
(OCoLC)fst01210722
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| Indexed Term |
English poetry |
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United States |
| ISBN |
0393023184 |
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9780393023183 |
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039330325X (pbk.) |
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9780393303254 (pbk.) |
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0393310825 (pbk.) |
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9780393310825 (pbk.) |
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0553714899 |
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9780553714890 |
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0906500079 |
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9780906500071 |
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