From now on : new and selected poems, 1970-2015 / Clarence Major ; foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Major, Clarence, author.

Komunyakaa, Yusef, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia ; London, [England] : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. Major's works-and this collection in particular-are distinguished by his poetic sociability and his unblinking but generous and affectionate portraiture. In From Now On , a retrospective of poems from the 1950's to the present-including selections from each of Major's previous books of poetry as well as a generous selection of new

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; A Note on the Early Poems; Acknowledgments; From Swallow the Lake (1970); Abbreviation of the Blues; Air; Blind Old Woman; Longlegs; Segregated Self; Something Is Eating Me Up Inside; From Private Line (1971); A Mother's Pride; Private Line; Rock Music USA; From Symptoms and Madness (1971); Picnic; Dream; The Backyard Smelled of Deodorant; Conflict; Not This-This Here!; This Temple; Holy Ghost Woman; Theater; The Distance between Tomorrow and Me; Float Up; My People Are in Centers; The Rose and Satisfaction; From The Cotton Club (1972); 1915 Interior; 1919

In the Interest of Personal Appearance Ladies Day 1902; The Bust; Like Family; Quick History of an Untarnished Sad Moment in Time; Rig; From The Syncopated Cakewalk (1974); Bruce and Nina; Outpost; H; The Ground; I Depart Some Months for Whole Areas; Law Magic; The High Purpose; Doodle; Gothic Westchester; Her Emotional Nature; Zigzag Patterns; Mountain Man; Old Car; Queen Pamunkey; The Jefferson Company; The Other End of the Land; American Setup; Cadillac; From Inside Diameter: The France Poems (1985); Beaulieu; Bouquet for Lovers; Inside Diameter; Losing Control at Nice

Over Drinks at Café au Charbonnage In the City of Motorbikes; Last Days in France; Selected Moments in France; From Surfaces and Masks (1988); III; VI; XI; XV; XX; XXVI; XXIX; XXXII; XXXIV; XXXVIII; XXXIX; XL; XLI; XLII; XLIV; From Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century (1989); Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century; Glossary; From Parking Lots (1992); Parking Lots; From Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998 (1998); Round Midnight; Love against Death; Train Stop; Un Poco Loco; No Time for Self-Pity

September Mendocino Brief Visit to Venice; Drawing from Life; The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage; Bernardston; Frenzy; Bricks and Sleep; The Apple-Maggot Fly; From Waiting for Sweet Betty (2002); Waiting for Sweet Betty; In My Own Language; Unknown Presence; Mendocino; Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving; From the Train Window Going and Coming; Gathering Mushrooms: Cambira; An Eighteenth-Century Moment; From Myself Painting (2008); The Red Bench; Plein Air; Windows and Women; The Young Doctor (1916); East Lansing, Michigan; Black Snake Blues; Difficult Pose

When the Model Does Not Show Three; In Search of a Motif for Expressive Female Figuration; From Down and Up (2013); Down and Up; Evening Newspaper; Father; The Rope; At The Movies; New Poems (2015); Plein Air; Inside Outside (Again); On the Beach; Leisure Dilemma; Alchemy; Holiday at the Beach; Waiting for the Storm; Ancestor Land; Shop or Store; Summer Visit; Morandi; Ava; Facebook; Mirror, Mirror; Domestic Agenda; Today's War; War and Its Effects; Water and Sand; Noon; The Moon; The Seasons; From Now On; Faith; After Light; Bitterroot; The Vegetable King; Hooray!; Wild Music

The Convex Mirror

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

907303860