The second man : and other poems / by Louis O. Coxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coxe, Louis O., 1918-1993.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1955]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Second Man and Other Poems was first published in 1955. The forty poems which make up this second volume of Mr. Coxe's poetry display an impressive range of subject and technique. He writes of love and religion, of men at sea, of historical moments of violence decision, and of the face of nature. But the predominant themes are those which Mr. Coxe treats with especial authority: the living meaning of his native New England, of its past, and of the people who make it. Mr. Coxe writes many kinds of poetry. There are lyrics, songs, reflective poems, and dramatic monologues.

Contents:

From The sea faring, and other poems : Red right returning ; For M.E.S. before D-day

The veteran (from The second man, and other poems)

From the Wilderness, and other poems : Flying home ; From the window down ; End of the road ; Hero's winter ; Winter headland ; Spring near the airbase ; For my son's birthday

Nelson's pillar

The keep

From The last hero : 1. Ulysses dying ; 5. Ulysses at thirty ; 6. Ulysses at twenty.

Cited in:

Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 48.

ISBN:

0-8166-6200-2

OCLC:

476161409