Portrait of your niece : and other poems / by Carol Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

55 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1959]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Portrait of Your Niece was first published in 1959. Carol Hall wrote her first poem, addressed to Santa Claus, when she was four years old. She has been writing ever since and has contributed poems to many magazines, but this is the first collection of her poetry to be published in book form. The volume contains fifty lyric and dramatic poems. Richard Eberhart comments: "Carol Hall's poems are mature, tightly written and full of thought. She is not afraid to take a hard look at the truth. She can be light-hearted too. There is a sophisticated mind always present in the varying views and evaluations in this book." Another interesting comment on this collection comes from Arnold Stein: "What especially attracts me is the voice I hear in the poems -- distinctive, wonderfully modulated, and remaining somehow itself even while expressing the intensities and surprises of the imagination with skill and force and courage." Among the poems in this volume are some that have appeared previously in Botteghe Oscure (Italy), the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Sewanee Review, New World Writing, Poetry, Western Review, Quarterly Review of Literature, Folder, Perspective, Voices, Experiment, Interim, and Poetry Northwest.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I BOUGHT THE BEACH

COUNTRY WITHOUT RAIN

PORTRAIT OF YOUR NIECE

BEACH AT PASTURE

THE FUNERAL-BAKED MEATS

TWO CHORUSES FROM THE WOODCUTTER'S CHILDREN

SONS AND FATHERS: THE HOMECOMING

EVENTS AT ORAN

I. The Indictment

II. The Trial

III. The Judgment

BACK INSIDE THE LEANING TOWER

WILL YOU GO WITH US TO THE SEA?

DREAMS OF FAIR WOMEN

ON THE CHILDISH MORNING STREETS

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE

THAT SHALLOW, SOFT, AMORPHOUS I

THE SHIP

NOW KNOCK YOUR FORELOCK ON YOUR KNEE

A GIFT OF WINTER APPLES

COUNTRY BREAKS OVER CITY

AS ANGELS FELL AND COULD NOT RISE

FOUR PURCHASES

THE OLD BRAVE MAN WITH THE LEG OF STONE

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK ON THAT OLD BROWN DOG

THE STATIONS OF THE BREATH

THE COTTER'S CHILDREN

YOU WITH THE WORN COIN

YOUR SISTER'S DROWNED, LAERTES

DEATH, DIVE ON THE HISTORY-RIDDEN TREE

A ROOM IN THE CASTLE

A FURTHER ELEGY OF INNOCENCE

A SAVIOR RAVED

THIS IS A COUNTRY SUCH AS NEVER WAS

OFFICE MEMORANDA

EPITAPH FOR OUR LANDLORD

WHEN SHE FELT THE DARK-FURRED SEAL

TO FALL IS TO GO OUT BY THE ROTTEN DOOR

TO A WOMAN SEEN EATING THE EVENING PAPER

POEM IN PRAISE OF SAINTS

AN OLD WOMAN'S WORDS TO HER YOUNG CAT

PRODIGIES OF CIRCUMSTANCE

OLD MAP OF SUMMER

THE FOURTH AGE OF ICE

ANCIENT HISTORY

WARNING OF BIRDS

MARY FREDERICK McCALL: HER BIOGRAPHY

ODE TO A SOLITARY GOLDFISH

WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

GAMES IN THE PARK

TWO BARCLAYS

COMPANY THAT NIGHT

BEFORE MY KEPT HANDS CURVED TO FORM THIS CROSS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-6868-X

OCLC:

646750168