Collected poems : with notes toward the memoirs / Djuna Barnes ; selected and edited by Phillip Herring and Osias Stutman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Djuna

Contributor:

Herring, Phillip F.

Stutman, Osías.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnes, Djuna.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Lesbians--United States--Biography.

Lesbians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 285 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2005]

Summary:

This groundbreaking edition compiles many of the late unpublished works of American writer Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). Because she published only seven poems and a play during the last forty years of her life, scholars believed Barnes wrote almost nothing during this period. But at the time of her death her apartment was filled with multiple drafts of unpublished poetry and notes toward her memoirs, both included here for the first time. Best known for her lesbian, tragic novel Nightwood, Barnes has always been considered a crucial modernist. Her later poetry will only enhance this reputation as it shows her remarkable evolution from a competent young writer to a deeply intellectual poet in the metaphysical tradition. With the full force of her biting wit and dramatic flair, Barnes's autobiographical notes colorfully depict the expatriate scene in Paris during the 1920s and the literary luminaries who shared her world. Among the writers captured: James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, whom Barnes evokes in telling anecdotes, and T. S. Eliot, recollected here in intimate detail. These memoirs provide a rare opportunity to experience the intense personality of this complex and fascinating poet.

Contents:

Collected Poems

Early Published Poems (1911-29) 21

The Dreamer (1911) 23

Call of the Night (1911) 24

Serenade (1914) 25

When Emperors Are Out of Men! (1914) 26

Just Lately Drummer Boy (1914) 28

Six Carried Her Away (1914) 29

Solitude (1914) 31

The Personal God (1914) 32

Jungle Jargon (1915) 34

Who Shall Atone? (1915) 36

Harvest Time (1915) 38

The Master-Dead (1915) 39

Tramp Summer (1915) 41

This Much and More (1915) 42

The Book of Repulsive Women (1915) 43

From Fifth Avenue Up 44

From Third Avenue On 47

Seen from the "L" 49

In Particular 50

Twilight of the Illicit 51

To a Cabaret Dancer 53

Suicide 55

Death (1916) 56

In Conclusion (1916) 57

Dust (1916) 58

Birth (1916) 59

The Yellow Jar (1916) 60

A Last Toast (1916) 61

To an Idol (1916) 62

Shadows (1916) 63

Love Song (1916) 64

Lines to a Lady (1918) 66

The Lament of Women (1918) 67

Ah My God! 68

To - 69

To the Hands of a Beloved (1919) 70

To One in Favour (1919) 71

To a Bird (1919) 72

To the Dead Favourite of Liu Ch'e (1920) 73

To One Feeling Differently (1923) 74

She Passed This Way (1923) 75

Vaudeville (1915, 1923) 76

Crystals (1923) 77

The Child Would Be Older (1923) 78

To One in Another Mood (1923) 79

A Book (1923) and A Night Among the Horses (1929) 80

Pastoral 81

Antique 83

Hush before Love 84

Paradise 85

Six Songs of Khalidine 86

Song in Autumn 88

Lullaby 89

I'd Have You Think of Me 90

The Flowering Corpse 91

First Communion 92

Early Unpublished Poems (1920-25) 95

The Poisoned Tree (ca. 1920-23) 97

The End of Summer (ca. 1920-23) 98

The Rose (ca. 1920-23) 99

Growth (ca. 1920-23) 100

Love and the Beast (1923) 101

Requiem (1923) 102

Portrait of a Lady Walking (1924-25) 103

Galerie Religieuse (1924-25) 104

Archaic (ca. 1924-25) 105

Death and the Wood 106

Late Published Poems (1938-82) 129

Transfiguration (1938, 1978) 131

Fall-out over Heaven (1958) 133

Galerie Religieuse (1962) 134

Quarry (1969, 1972) 136

The Walking-Mort (1971) 138

Creatures in an Alphabet (1982) 140

Rite of Spring (1982) 145

Late Unpublished Poems (ca. 1950-82) 147

Dereliction (Man cannot purge ...) 149

Satires (Man cannot purge ...) 150

The Bo Tree 152

Lament for Wretches, Every One 153

Dereliction (There are no sessions ...) 154

Descant (There is no gender ...) 155

Dereliction (Does the inch-worm ...) 157

The Rounds 158

Laughing Lamentations (Lord, what is man ...) 159

As Cried (Lord, what is man ...) 160

Imigo 161

Dereliction (Augusta said ...) 162

Discant (His mother said ...) 163

As Cried (If gold falls sick ...) 164

Who Died That Day at Dannemora? 165

The Satirics (They called Jesus ...) 167

As Cried (Sixty years ...) 168

Pharaoh 169

Dereliction (On my spade ...) 170

Dereliction (See how the sledded ...) 171

Discant (So they went up ...) 172

Dereliction and Virgin Spring (Tell where is ...) 173

Satires (Or why not ask ...) 174

Discant (Pregnant women ...) 175

The Marian Year 176

Satires (The laying on of hands ...) 177

Discant (He said to the Don ...) 178

Magnificat. Canticle 179

The Great Man 180

Dereliction (For old Rustibus ...) 181

Dereliction (There is no sanctuary ...) 182

The Honeydew 183

Dereliction (When first I saw Io ...) 184

When First I Saw My Fable 185

Discant (There should be gardens ...) 186

There Should Be Gardens 187

Satires (The Honeydew) 188

Therefore Sisters 189

Satires (High-society ...) 190

Untitled (A Woman Riding Astride) 191

Satires (This roaring sea ...) 192

Descent (The Coupling) 193

Dereliction (When beasts ...) 195

Discontent 196

When the Kissing Flesh Is Gone 197

Satires (Memory has muscles) 198

When I Conjured You 199

Laughing Lamentations of Dan Corbeau 200

Discant (Nothing's as vanquished ...) 201

Satires (Man's member ...) 202

Tom Fool (You have the rough tongue ...) 203

Tom-Fool (Beware Tom-Fool ...) 204

Jackdaw (When I was an infant ...) 205

A Victim Is a State of Decline 207

Viaticum (The victim and the victor stood ...) 208

Ancient Spring (Therefore look not ...) 209

Hearsed Up in Oak 210

Sardonics (Burly ghosts ...) 211

Father 212

Jackdaw: The Eye Bereaves 213

Dereliction (Over in the meadow ...) 214

Viaticum (When he came headlong ...) 215

Satires: Mule Satires 216

Satires (In some noble show ...) 217

Who Does Not Love the Chorister? 218

Satires (Old man cruel ...) 219

Dereliction (Hearing the slow beat ...) 220

Laughing Lamentations (When first I practiced ...) 221

Satires (Man does not save himself ...) 222

As Cried (She was a creature ...) 223

Laughing Lamentations (Laughter under-water ...) 224

Dereliction (Cold comfort ...) 225

As Cried (And others ask ...) 226

Verse 227

Notes toward the Memoirs

Selected Notes on T. S. Eliot 231

Vantage Ground 235

A Way of Life 243

Farewell Paris 249

War in Paris (1939) 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285).

ISBN:

0299212300

0299212343

OCLC:

58055246