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Collected poems / Edgar Bowers.
LIBRA - Special PS3503.O8199 A17 1997b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, Edgar.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 168 pages ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1997.
- Summary:
- In The Poet is Reproved for his Complaint, he writes: "Follow Baudelaire's advice, / Never think to please the nice / Or the sullen or the mob / Feeding like the armored crab / On the rotten or the stale. / Take for model the great whale / Diving in the depth for measure, / Leaping high and free for pleasure, / Skeleton to those who see / Neither joy nor mystery, / Who, too selfish, cross or zealous, / Will not hear the voice of Eros."
- Contents:
- John
- Clear-seeing
- Clothes
- Spaces
- Numbers
- Trees
- Alphabets
- Breakages
- Schools
- Dragons
- Mazes
- Ice Ages
- Illusions
- Encyclopedias
- The Falls
- Grasses
- Breaths
- Someone in San Francisco
- On Katherine Harper Mead's Fatal Accident
- Reichenbach in Africa
- A Fragment: the Cause
- The Poet Orders His Tomb
- The Poet is Reproved for his Complaint
- How We Came From Paris to Blois
- For Louis Pasteur
- Hang Gliding
- Mask of the Dan Tribe, Ivory Coast
- The Hill
- The Beach
- The Botanic Gardens
- The Resident
- The Vedanta Temple
- The Campus
- El Camino Cielo
- The Visitor
- Davey Brown Camp
- The Museum of Natural History
- The Courthouse
- The Radiologist
- Epilogue: The Yacht
- Adam
- Eve
- Cain
- Noah
- Jacob
- On Dick Davis' Reading, California State University, Los Angeles
- On Edmund Wrobleski's Concern for His Patient
- On Clive Wilmer's Visit to the Wildfowl Refuge
- Richard
- Thomas
- Mary
- Elegy: Walking the Line
- On Robert Wells' Moving from Tours to Blois
- The Devereux Slough
- A Meditation on "The Devereux Slough"
- Chaco Canyon
- In Defense of Poetry
- Living Together
- Wandering
- Insomnia
- Chorus for the Untenured Personnel
- The Philosophical Life
- An Elegy: December, 1970
- The Astronomers of Mont Blanc
- Adam's Song to Heaven
- An Afternoon at the Beach
- Of an Etching
- To Death
- To the Contemporary Muse
- In a Darkness
- In the Last Circle
- The Mirror
- After Leconte de Lisle
- An Answer
- A Song for Rising
- The Dream
- The Centaur Overheard
- Autumn Shade
- To the Reader
- The Wise Men
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Epigram on the Passing of Christmas
- Late Winter Night
- To Accompany an Italian Guide-Book
- Grove and Building
- For W.A. Mozart
- Dedication for a House
- The Stoic: for Laura von Corten
- Venus
- The Snow Man
- Amor Vincit Omnia
- Two Poems on the Catholic Bavarians
- The Virgin Considered as a Picture
- The Prince
- Aix-la-Chapelle, 1945
- The Mountain Cemetery
- From J. Haydn to Constanze Mozart (1791)
- Dark Earth and Summer
- Elegy: For W.C.S.H.
- The Virgin Mary
- Clairvoyant
- Variations on an Elizabethan Theme
- From William Tyndale to John Frith
- To This Book.
- OCLC:
- 919441885
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