| Description |
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction |
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Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.
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| Contents |
The World below the Window -- Quail in Autumn -- Structure of Song -- The Young Lovers -- He Will Not Hear -- Night Music -- The Vision -- The Massacre of the Innocents -- Au Tombeau du Marechal Pet-de-Nain -- 3 for 25 -- Polynesian in Khaki -- Hotel Continental -- Dark Valentine -- Elegy -- Barber, Wartime -- Pidgin Pinch -- Movies for the Troops -- Villanelle -- The Barber -- A Note on the Vanity Dresser -- Reflection -- Old Men on the Bench -- Academic Procession -- The Panther -- A Locket for Emily Dickinson -- All Earth's Divided -- On the Reef -- Abruptly All the Palm Trees -- The Waves -- At the Terminal -- Chrysanthemums -- The Peacock of Java -- Orpheus -- The Girl in Glass -- Persian Miniature -- Morning at Arnhem. |
| Summary |
"William Jay Smith melds an array of influences - from the French Symbolists to W.H. Auden and Wallace Stevens - into his own unmistakable voice, moving powerfully from the compressed, dark lyrics of his pre-World War II poetry ("Quail in Antumn") to experiments with a long, free-verse line in the 1960's ("The Tin Can"). Here are memorable lyrics that capture the horror of World War II ("Dark Valentine: War Poems") and hilarious light verse ("The Tall Poets") that exhibits the wit that has enlivened even Smith's darkest works. Previously uncollected recent poems reveal the poet's tremendous range, as he moves from discussing the ironies of age in "The Shipwreck" to forging the dramatic and moving intensity of "The Cherokee Lottery," which deals with the forced removal of American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Added Author |
Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Smith, William Jay, 1918- World below the window. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605374370 |
| ISBN |
0801858593 (alk. paper) |
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9780801858598 (alk. paper) |
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9780801867835 |
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0801867835 |
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