Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
viii, 86 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Summary:
Poems on subjects ranging from the writer, Kafka, to the loneliness of the Prairies. In Ocean of Grass, he writes: "Think of her sometimes when you pace the earth, / our mother, where she was laid to rest. / The ground was holy, but the wind was harsh / for those who drowned in an ocean of grass."
Contents:
Blue hydrangea
The poet at seven
Ocean of grass
Iowa flora
American summer
Days of 1968
The burning of the midnight lamp
Orphic rites
The unnaming
Hotel window
Idea of the holy
Two (scholarly) love poems
A painting of Pan
A fundamentalist
Husband and wife
Prologue
Denis Diderot
Giacomo Leopardi
Heinrich Heine
Charles Baudelaire
Margaret Fuller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Meredith
Lafcadio Hearn
Oscar Wilde
Tristan Tzara
Guillaume Apollinaire
Milena Jesenska
D.H. Lawrence
H.D.
Federico García Lorca
Robert Desnos
Gertrude Stein
Dr. X
Bertolt Brecht
Marina Tsvetaeva
Zora Neale Hurston
Oscar Ginsburg
Paul Valéry
Colette.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
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