| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 137 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The summer anniversaries (1960). Ladies by their windows ; Women in love ; Landscape with little figures ; In Bertram's garden ; Another song ; Sonnet: the poet at seven ; Sonnet: the wall ; A winter ode to the old men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida ; The stray dog by the summerhouse ; On a painting by patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane ; Counting the mad ; Beyond the hunting woods ; Tales from a family album ; Sestina: a dream ; Sestina: here in Katmandu ; Anthony Street ; On the death of friends in childhood ; The snowfall ; A map of love -- Night light (1967). Heart ; Time and the weather ; Ode to a dressmaker's dummy ; The grandfathers ; Anonymous drawing ; Variations for two pianos ; But that is another story ; Last days of Prospero ; After a phrase abandoned by Wallace Stevens ; The suicides ; Orpheus opens his morning mail ; To the unknown lady who wrote the letters found in the hatbox ; The evening of the mind ; Dreams of water ; Early poems ; American sketches ; Memory of a porch ; Bus stop ; In the greenroom ; At a rehearsal of Uncle Vanya ; To the hawks ; The tourist from Syracuse ; The man closing up ; Men at forty ; The missing person ; Elsewheres ; Incident in a rose garden ; The thin man ; Hands ; To waken a small person -- Departures (1973). Fragment: to a mirror ; Things ; Two small vices beginning with the letter "L" ; A dancer's life ; The confession ; The success; The assassination ; Twenty questions ; Poem ; Portraits of the sixties ; Homage to the memory of Wallace Stevens ; A letter ; Three odes ; The telephone number of the muse ; White notes ; An elegy is preparing itself ; From a notebook ; Variations on a text by Vallejo ; Absences ; Presences ; Sonatina in green ; Sonatina in yellow ; Riddle -- Uncollected poems. Sonnet: an old-fashioned devil ; The return of Alcestis ; Two songs from Don Juan in hell ; The summer anniversaries ; From Bad dreams ; The furies ; Little elegy ; First death ; Two blues ; Tremayne ; Unflushed urinals ; Sunday afternoon in Buffalo, Texas ; Memories of the depression years ; In the attic ; Thinking about the past ; Childhood. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1980. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0689110162: $10.95. |
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9780689110160 |
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