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Five seasons of obsession : new & selected poems / Ned O'Gorman.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.G6 F49 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Gorman, Ned, 1929-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Faith.
- Love poetry.
- Faith--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 245 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Books & Co., [2001]
- Summary:
- With their selection of Ned O'Gorman's first volume of poems as the winner of the 1959 Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize, a distinguished panel of judges (including Robert Penn Warren and Richard Wilbur) heralded, in their own words, "a new talent of the first magnitude." By the time O'Gorman's third collection was published by Harcourt Brace in 1964, Sir Herbert Read was calling O'Gorman "the most exciting poet to appear in America since the war." Now, nearly thirty years after Ned O'Gorman's last major collection, Five Seasons of Obsession marks the re-emergence of this important and distinctive voice in contemporary poetry.
- Here for a new generation of readers to discover is a poet of remarkable range and depth: a spiritual poet fervently in love with the sensual world; an erotic poet passionate about faith and transcendence. Nothing eludes him -- far-flung landscapes, the bodies of men, of women, heaven and hell, are seen through a lover's searching eyes and vivified with a restless, abundant wit. And in this volume's substantial selection of new poems he reclaims his place as one of our great poets of desire: of the lures of this world, and the longed-for redemption beyond.
- Contents:
- from The Night of the Hammer (1959)
- The Aunt 3
- The Swing 4
- A Description of the Sea for Lena Lenzi Who Has Never Seen It 5
- The Kiss 8
- Agamemnon as Arcady 9
- An Art of Poetry 10
- Two Homilies 12
- An Incident Early in the World's History 14
- Myth 16
- Hero 17
- L'Annunciazione 18
- On Saint Theresa's Difficulty in Keeping Her Feet on the Ground 20
- On Turning the Page of a Jeweled Book 23
- The Complaint of a Young Priest 24
- from Adam Before His Mirror (1961)
- The Tree House 29
- I Am a Falcon, Hooded ... 30
- A Poem in a Time of Deepest Pondering 31
- To the Poet Who Concurred in Dragons 32
- Paolo Learns Gravity at Twelve O'Clock Noon 34
- Two Visions 36
- Adam before His Mirror 38
- A Poem to Paula and a Poem to Ned 39
- A Movement of Peoples 40
- A Reflection on the Paraclete 41
- The Death of a Poor Man 42
- Spring 43
- The Summer 44
- The Ear in Autumn: An Instruction for the Wild Sara 45
- Winter 46
- Adam's Hymn to His Body 47
- Great Grandfather, Clam Diggers and Homer 49
- Two Poems on the Creation of a Statue of a Maenad 51
- Through the Steel Haze 53
- The Tent, the Song, the Sign, the Element 55
- The Boyhood of Nguyen Van Vinh 58
- Johanna, the Big Cow 59
- Webbed, Yellow-Billed and Aquamarine 60
- from The Buzzard and the Peacock (1964)
- The Toad with the Blind Eye 63
- Vegetable-Life 65
- A Child of Light, a Child of Dark 66
- Counsels to a Benedictine Novice 68
- A Rectification of the Lyric 71
- Two Holy Incidents 74
- The Sea
- East Hampton 76
- The Heretic and the Dancer 79
- Hunting Hawks in Ethiopia 81
- Corn, Wine and Oil 83
- The Virgin's House 88
- The Dark Dialogue 90
- As It Was Then It Will Not Be Now 92
- The Burning Bush 94
- The Architect Speaks to the World 96
- Written on the Occasion in Cairo When a Man Rode through Heavy Traffic on a Bicycle Carrying on His Shoulder a Pane of Plate Glass Five Feet Square 97
- The Black Lady 98
- The Teacher 99
- A Beauty Meditates on Beauty 101
- In Honor of the Mother of God 102
- Stonegrave, Yorkshire 104
- To the Memory of Lydia Hoffman 106
- from The Harvesters' Vase (1968)
- To Bernard the Huntress 111
- Paolo Climbing Down through a Tree 112
- The Memorable Thing about Love 113
- The Blue Shutter 114
- The Prayer of a Friend Whose Loves Are Sorrows 115
- Toward You I Fall 116
- Looking Upward at a Waterford Glass Chandelier 117
- The Harvesters' Vase 118
- Plenitude 120
- A Conversation between Whilla Muir, Rudolph Nureyev, and Ned O'Gorman about Excess 121
- The House of Victoria 123
- Signs 125
- The Galilean Light 128
- The Paralytic 129
- Hands 130
- To X Who Never Existed Except in Reality 131
- Haircutting 132
- At the Tomb of Ha'ari 133
- The Donkey 135
- The Eden of the Vegetables 136
- from The Flag the Hawk Files (1972)
- Color 139
- The Horse 140
- Nine Prayers to the Trinity to be Sung by the Nuns of Regina Laudis at Matins 142
- On Reform 145
- The Mud Bird 146
- A Philosophy 148
- The Metaphysician 150
- Sandcastle 151
- The Resurrection Day of a Brown Bear 152
- To Sister Ann on the Occasion of Her Being a Nun for One Day 154
- Drunk on the Lord's Wine 155
- The Eagle 156
- When I Would Love and Cannot Love 158
- from How to Put Out a Fire (1984)
- I Bronzi di Riace: Threnody for a Poet Who Died After She Had Seen Them 161
- The Cave 162
- Some Thoughts of a Monk in the Cloister of Vietri Sul Mar 165
- Peace, after Long Madness 166
- Biting Down on Fish 167
- This Alchemy 168
- Examinations into the Maniacal Self 169
- A Journey 171
- A Dream: Barrington Rhode Island 173
- How to Put Out a Fire 174
- The English Poet's French Lover 176
- The Bather 177
- New Poems
- Panther 181
- Sitting There 182
- The Vessel of Light 183
- This Great Vat of Sense 185
- States of Mind 186
- Objets de la vie de tous les jours 188
- Fulco di Verdura: A Vanity 189
- Tulips 190
- The Eyes of Shetland Ponies 191
- Ram 192
- She Had Seen It First in the Sky 193
- Rubens Peale's Glasses 195
- Three Poems for Jane Howe of Red Horse Farm 196
- Alexander
- Cones of the Cedar of Lebanon
- Cook
- Portrait of a Lady in Yellow 199
- Poems upon Poems 200
- Wittgenstein Reads Finnegans Wake in Provence: A Pauline Reflection 201
- Adopt a Visibility Sight 202
- Poems on a State of Final Distraction 203
- Sassetta in Vermont 205
- The Photo Shoot 207
- Proust Dying 209
- The Sleeping Lifeguard 210
- I Have Thoughts about the Density of Mountains 211
- The Green Trumpet 212
- The Sound of the Launching of a Thousand Ships 213
- The Mount Athos Poems 214
- The Building that the Body Is 217
- The Rainbow 218
- Whew! 219
- Three Poems for Nicos Stravroulakis 220
- Too Hot, Too Hot 222
- An Ecstasy: Bernini in Mind 223
- Dreams Erotic, Dreams Not 224
- Love 225
- After Birth 226
- These Tumultuous, These Erratic, These Crazy Waters 227
- When I Had Thought of Fire 228
- Expenses 229
- A Spiritual Experience 230
- Desire 231
- Swans in the Dark 234
- Rounding It Out, Paring Down, Letting Go 235
- Les situations nettes 236
- Aber wozu dann dies komplizierte ding? 240
- Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances 242
- The Five Seasons of Obsession 244.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1885586558
- OCLC:
- 47905499
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