New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska / edited and introduced by Robert Phillips.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Zaturenska, Marya, 1902-1982.

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Phillips, Robert, 1938-2022.

Standardized Title:

• Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 169 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Comprises 115 poems and twenty translations drawn from eight previous books, including early unpublished poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

Contents:

• Early and Uncollected Poems, 1920-1933
• Spinners
• She Longs for the Country 3
• The Spinners of Willowsleigh 3
• Song of a Factory Girl 4
• A Song for Vanished Beauty 5
• An Old Tale 5
• Memories 6
• Fulfillment 7
• The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers 7
• They Pass
• Clock-Beat, Heart-Beat 8
• Symbols 8
• Oath on an Altar 9
• The Empress Marie Louise 10
• Places 10
• From Threshold and Hearth, 1934
• Pilgrimage 15
• Strange Captivity 15
• Reflections on a Centaur 16
• For the Seasons 17
• O Lyric March 18
• Chorale for Autumn 18
• The Quiet House 19
• The Narrow Hemisphere 20
• Soul's Haven 20
• Daphne 21
• The Dark Year 21
• Image of a Friend 22
• The Uninvited Guest 23
• From Cold Morning Sky, 1938
• The Virgin, the Doe and the Leper 27
• Lullaby 28
• Spring Morning 29
• The Lunar Tides 30
• The Daisy 32
• Cold Morning Sky 32
• Dialogue 33
• The Island 35
• Voyage 36
• The Emigres 37
• The Dream 38
• Death Is the Serpent 39
• Afternoon of a Doll 39
• Girl and Scarecrow 40
• The Runaway 41
• From The Listening Landscape, 1941
• The White Dress 45
• Quiet Countries: The World of Hans Christian Andersen 46
• Child in the Crystal 47
• Forest of Arden 48
• Interview in Midsummer 49
• The Seance 51
• Snowstorm in January 52
• The Casket of Pandora 53
• The Head of Medusa 54
• Background with Harpsichord 55
• The Familiar 56
• The Interpreter of Silence 57
• Silence and the Wayfarer 58
• The Listening Landscape 59
• The Unsepulchered, 1914-1918 60
• Leaves from the Book of Dorothy Wordsworth
• First Memories 62
• The Soul's Journey 63
• Footprints of the Invisible 64
• Procession of the Seasons 64
• Coleridge 64
• Shadows of the End 65
• Bells of Vision 66
• Finale 67
• From The Golden Mirror, 1944
• The Castaways 71
• Future in Miniature 72
• Woman at the Piano 73
• Variations on a Theme by George Herbert 73
• The Old House 74
• The Winter Rose 75
• Epitaph for a Careless Beauty 76
• Dream Message 77
• For a Child 78
• "All Is Well with the Child" 79
• The Blue Flower 79
• Luna and Leopardi 80
• The Afflictions of William Cowper 82
• The Golden Mirror 84
• The Imperfect 85
• From Selected Poems, 1954
• May Morning: Hudson Pastoral 89
• A Friend's Song 90
• The Mirrored Room 91
• Siren Music 92
• Song of the Forsaken Lilac Tree 92
• The Twisted Tree 93
• From Terraces of Light, 1960
• Girl in a Library 97
• The Snowy Woods 97
• Variation on a Polish Folk Song 98
• Four Ghosts 100
• Late Arrival 100
• Elegy and Nocturne for Lora Baxter 101
• Song 102
• Song for a Season 103
• Voices in Air 104
• Virgin with a Lamp 104
• The Question 105
• From "The Fountains of Rome" 106
• Hymn to Artemis, the Destroyer 106
• From a Winter Journal 107
• A Theme from Louise Labe 108
• Terraces of Light 108
• The Flowing of the River 110
• The Garden at Cliveden 111
• Cascades and Fountains 112
• From Collected Poems, 1965
• Spellbound 115
• The World of the Salamanders 116
• Metaphysics of the Night 116
• Chorale for the Seasons 117
• Homage to Christina Rossetti 118
• From The Hidden Waterfall, 1974
• A Shakespearean Cycle
• I. Prospero's Soliloquy 123
• II. Perdita's Song 124
• III. Cordelia's Song 125
• IV. Mariana's Song 126
• V. Ophelia's Song 127
• VI. Miranda's Song 128
• A Young Girl Singing 129
• Water Lilies: A Nocturne 129
• The Young Dancers 130
• O Like a Young Tree 131
• Another Snowstorm 132
• I Know an Island 133
• Lament of Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII 134
• From "The Madness of Jean Jacques Rousseau" 134
• The Invaders 136
• Bird and the Muse 137
• Once in an Ancient Book 139
• Translations, 1960-1974
• From the Italian of Claudio Achillini 143
• From the Italian of Cardinal Pietro Bembo 143
• From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti 144
• From the Italian of Lorenzo de'Medici 145
• From the Italian of Vincenzo Monti 146
• From the Italian of Gaspara Stampa 147
• From the Italian of Torquato Tasso 148
• Nine Variations on Themes from Petrarch 149
• Two Adaptations from Frederich Holderlin 155
• Works by Marya Zaturenska 159.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Works by Marya Zaturenska": page 159.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0815607172

OCLC:

47892595