The collected poems and selected prose / Stanley Burnshaw ; foreword by Thomas F Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnshaw, Stanley, 1906-2005.

Series:

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2002

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Burnshaw, Stanley, 1906-2005. Selections.

Burnshaw, Stanley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stanley Burnshaw began to publish poems in the 1920s and founded his own verse journal in 1925. After serving as coeditor and drama critic of the New Masses weekly (1934-1936), he entered book publishing, directing the Dryden Press until 1958, when he joined Henry Holt. The first of his nineteen earlier works, André Spire and His Poetry, appeared in 1934 and the last in 1990, A Stanley Burnshaw Reader, with an introduction by Denis Donoghue. The present volume—the definitive Burnshaw collection—offers all the poems he wishes to preserve and a full representation of his prose, including My Friend, My Father in its entirety. The Collected Poems and Selected Prose is vital reading for anyone wishing to be fully acquainted with the man whom Karl Shapiro called "one of the best-respected men of letters of our time."

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword, by Thomas F. Staley""; ""EARLY AND LATE TESTAMENT (1952)""; ""EARLY AND LATE TESTAMENT""; ""(PREAMBLE)""; ""Time of Brightness""; ""(FIRST TESTAMENT)""; ""Bread""; ""(SECOND TESTAMENT)""; ""The Iron Lands""; ""Do I Know Their Names?""; ""For a Workers' Road-Song""; ""All Day the Chill . . .""; ""Will You Remake These Worlds?""; ""(THIRD TESTAMENT)""; ""A Coil of Glass (I)""; ""Anchorage in Time (I)""; ""(FOURTH TESTAMENT)""; ""This War Is Love""; ""A Coil of Glass (II)""; ""Hero Statues""; ""(FIFTH TESTAMENT)""; ""Dialogue of the Heartbeat""; ""The Bridge""

""Heartbeat Obbligato""""End of the Flower-World""; ""(SIXTH TESTAMENT)""; ""Looking for Papa""; ""Among Trees of Light""; ""Coasts of Darkness""; ""In Strength of Singleness""; ""(SEVENTH TESTAMENT)""; ""Blood""; ""It Was Never This Quiet . . .""; ""When Was It Lost?""; ""Woodpecker""; ""Voices in Dearness . . .""; ""Song Aspires to Silence""; ""Anchorage in Time (II)""; ""(EIGHTH TESTAMENT)""; ""Two Men Fell in the Irish Sea""; ""POETRY: THE ART""; ""ODES AND LYRICS""; ""To a Young Girl Sleeping""; ""Innocence""; ""Wave""; ""Event in a Field""; ""The Fear""; ""Midnight: Deserted Pavements""

""Random Pieces of a Man""""Waiting in Winter""; ""Outcast of the Waters""; ""Restful Ground""; ""Days""; ""Willowy Wind""; ""THE HOLLOW RIVER""; ""SECOND-HAND POEMS""; ""ANONYMOUS ALBA: En un vergier soiz folha d'albespi""; ""ORLEANS: Le temps a laissié""; ""SPIRE: Nudités""; ""SPIRE: Ce n'est pas toi . . .""; ""SPIRE: Nativité""; ""SPIRE: Un parfum éternel . . .""; ""SPIRE: Baisers""; ""SPIRE: Friselis""; ""SPIRE: Volupté""; ""CAGED IN AN ANIMAL'S MIND (1963)""; ""THOUGHTS ABOUT A GARDEN""; ""Historical Song of Then and Now""; ""Summer""; ""Ravel and Bind""; ""Caged in an Animal's Mind""

""Ancient of Nights""""Symbol Curse""; ""The Valley Between""; ""Thoughts about a Garden""; ""Petitioner Dogs""; ""Father-Stones""; ""Night of the Canyon Sun""; ""A Recurring Vision""; ""Midnight Wind to the Tossed""; ""THE AXE OF EDEN""; ""LISTEN:""; ""RANDOM PIECES OF A MAN""; ""Thoughts of the War and My Daughter""; ""A River""; ""Surface""; ""Preparation for Self-Portrait in Black Stone""; ""Mornings of St. Croix""; ""Boy over a Stream""; ""Letter from One Who Could Not Cross the Frontier""; ""Nightmare in a Workshop""; ""Seven""; ""Clay""; ""A Rose Song""

""Guide's Speech on a Road near Delphi""""Song of Nothings: In the Mountain's Shadow at Delphi""; ""I Think among Blank Walls""; ""Seedling Air""; ""Three in Throes""; ""Modes of Belief""; ""House in St. Petersburg""; ""SECOND-HAND POEMS""; ""AKHMATOVA: The Muse""; ""GEORGE: Denk nicht zu viel . . .""; ""ELUARD: L'Amoureuse""; ""VON HOFMANNSTHAL: Eigene Sprache""; ""ALBERT: El ángel bueno""; ""IN THE TERRIFIED RADIANCE (1972)""; ""THE TERRIFIED RADIANCE""; ""The Terrified Radiance""; ""To a Crow""; ""Innocent War""; ""Gulls . . .""; ""Central Park: Midwinter""; ""The Finding Light""

""Erstwhile Hunter""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references index.

ISBN:

0-292-79650-1

OCLC:

932313868