| Description |
x, 86 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Responsibility and reality are the author's primary interests in this collection of works. |
| Contents |
Addio -- Minus one -- A man came Tuesday -- Remembering Curzio Malaparte -- A conversation with Leonardo -- Ugliness -- Washing your feet -- Kranzfeldt -- Small -- A hereafter -- Metamorphosis: The pink knight -- East sixty-seventh street -- An apology for not invoking the muse -- A fool too fast -- One wet iota -- History is what a man does -- Memoir of a three inch man -- 2:00 a.m. -- A thanks to a botanist -- On the orthodoxy and creed of my power mower -- To a lovely lady gone to theory -- In the hole -- Keeping -- 4:00 a.m. The bottle is a clepsydra -- Blue movie -- The magician -- Differences -- A Buddha seen as the thing least like me -- Letter from a pander -- Notes -- Driving across the American desert -- Requisitioning -- Notes from the system -- Exit line -- A confession: That I meant to sing and did not -- Dialogue with outer space -- A prayer to the mountain -- Poem for Benn's graduation from high school -- And you? -- An Emeritus addresses the school -- Generation gap -- Para derest -- Memo: Preliminary draft of prayer to God the Father. |
| 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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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ciardi, John, 1916-1986. Little that is all. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1974] (OCoLC)560434458 |
| ISBN |
0813507766 |
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9780813507767 |
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