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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817644403321

Titolo

The Wesleyan tradition : four decades of American poetry / / Michael Collier, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Middletown, Conn.], : Wesleyan University Press

Hanover, : University Press of New England, c1993

ISBN

0-8195-7094-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan poetry

Altri autori (Persone)

CollierMichael <1953->

Disciplina

811/.5408

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; First Decade; Barbara Howes; Early Supper; The Blue Garden; Hyam Plutzik; Jim Desterland; The Premonition; Louis Simpson; I Dreamed That in a City Dark as Paris; Landscape with Barns; Carentan O Carentan; In California; In the Suburbs; My Father in the Night Commanding No; American Poetry; The Troika; On the Lawn at the Villa; James Wright; A Fit Against the Country; At Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953; Saint Judas; Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota; Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio; A Blessing

Two Poems about President HardingOutside Fargo, North Dakota; The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martins Ferry, Ohio; Redwings; The Journey; David Ferry; My Parents En Route; The Soldier; Robert Francis; Three Darks Come Down Together; Blue Jay; Dog-Day Night; Donald Justice; The Poet at Seven; Here in Katmandu; On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane; Houses; Variations for Two Pianos; Men at Forty; Bus Stop; Vassar Miller; Adam's Footprint; Aubade; Remembering Aunt Helen; Robert Bagg; Ezra Pound and Robert Bridges; Death at Pocono Lake Preserve; Alan Ansen

A Fit of Something Against SomethingDavid Ignatow; Walt Whitman in the Civil War Hospitals; Figures of the Human; Rescue the Dead; The Refuse Man; In the Dark; ""The dog barks and is for the moment a dog heard""; White-haired, I walk in on my parents; John Ashbery; The Tennis Court Oath; Two Sonnets; Our Youth; The Ticket; from The New



Realism; Robert Bly; Surprised by Evening; Sunset at a Lake; Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River; Remembering in Oslo the Old Picture of the Magna Carta; Night

After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best PoemJames Dickey; The Performance; A Screened Porch in the Country; Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek; In the Mountain Tent; The Dusk of Horses; Buckdancer's Choice; The Leap; Coming Back to America; Night Bird; Richard Howard; Agreement with Sir Charles Sedley; Seeing Cousin Phyllis Off; Donald Petersen; Ballad of Dead Yankees; Vern Rutsala; Lovers in Summer; Late at Night; Bodies; W. R. Moses; Night Wind in Fall; Dark and Dark; Turner Cassity; Junker-Lied; Epigoni Go French Line

John HainesThe Field of the Caribou; The House of the Injured; Dürer's Vision; Choosing a Stone; There Are No Such Trees in Alpine, California; Sleep; Mothball Fleet: Benicia, California; Harvey Shapiro; National Cold Storage Company; For W C W; Hello There!; After the Love-making; Josephine Miles; ""When Sanders brings feed to his chickens""; ""When I was eight, I put in the left-hand drawer""; Michael Benedikt; Events by Moonlight; Dossier of the Torturer; The Nipplewhip; Philip Levine; Blasting from Heaven; To a Child Trapped in a Barber Shop; The Cemetery at Academy, California

The Midget

Sommario/riassunto

A compelling anthology of the best poetry of a unique press.