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Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems / William Carlos Williams ; with an introduction by Herbert Leibowitz.
LIBRA - Special PS3545.I544 A9 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 794.
- New Directions paperbook
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 60 pages ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Asphodel, that greeny flower and other love poems
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1994.
- Summary:
- A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."
- Contents:
- Introduction / Herbert Leibowitz
- Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [1955]
- Rain [1930]
- Hymn to Love Ended [1935]
- The Monstrous Marriage [1944]
- Wide Awake, Full of Love [1949]
- The Descent [1954]
- The Ivy Crown [1955]
- Sappho [1957]
- Song (beauty is a shell) [1962]
- Song (you are forever April) [1962]
- To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday [1962]
- The Reawaking [1962].
- ISBN:
- 0811212831
- 9780811212830
- OCLC:
- 30919792
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