Collected poems / by James Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, James, 1927-1980.

Series:

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American--20th century.

Poets, American.

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

[1st ed.]

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2007?],c1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; The Quest; Sitting in a Small Screenhouse on a Summer Morning; From: THE GREEN WALL; A Fit against the Country; The Seasonless; The Horse; The Fishermen; A Girl in a Window; On the Skeleton of a Hound; Three Steps to the Graveyard; Father; Elegy in a Firelit Room; Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends; Lament for My Brother on a Hayrake; She Hid in the Trees from the Nurses; To a Defeated Savior; To a Troubled Friend; Poem for Kathleen Ferrier; A Song for the Middle of the Night; A Presentation of Two Birds to My Son; To a Hostess Saying Good Night

A Poem about George Doty in the Death HouseTo a Fugitive; Eleutheria; Autumnal; The Shadow and the Real; Witches Waken the Natural World in Spring; Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl; The Quail; Sappho; A Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name; Mutterings over the Crib of a Deaf Child; The Angel; The Assignation; Come Forth; Erinna to Sappho; A Little Girl on Her Way to School; My Grandmother's Ghost; SAINT JUDAS; I. Lunar Changes; Complaint; Paul; An Offering for Mr. Bluehart; Old Man Drunk; Sparrows in a Hillside Drift; A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack; At Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953

EveningDog in a Cornfield; On Minding One's Own Business; The Morality of Poetry; At the Slackening of the Tide; All the Beautiful Are Blameless; In a Viennese Cemetery; A Prayer in My Sickness; The Cold Divinities; The Revelation; A Winter Day in Ohio; II. A Sequence of Love Poems; A Breath of Air; In Shame and Humiliation; The Accusation; The Ghost; The Alarm; A Girl Walking into a Shadow; But Only Mine; III. The Part Nearest Home; What the Earth Asked Me; The Refusal; American Twilights, 1957; Devotions; At the Executed Murderer's Grave; Saint Judas; SOME TRANSLATIONS

Ten Short Poems (from the Spanish of Juan Ramón Jiménez)1. Rose of the Sea, from Diario de Poeta y Mar; 2. From Eternidades; 3. From Eternidades; 4. Rosebushes, from Diario de Poeta y Mar; 5. Dreaming, from Diario de Poeta y Mar; 6. From Diario de Poeta y Mar; 7. On the City Ramparts of Cádiz, from Diario de Poeta y Mar; 8. From Diario de Poeta y Mar; 9. Moguer, from Diario de Poeta y Mar; 10. Life, from Eternidades; I Want to Sleep (from the Spanish of Jorge Guillén); Nature Alive (Guillén); Love Song to a Morning (Guillén); Some Beasts (from the Spanish of Pablo Neruda)

The Heights of Macchu Picchu, III (Neruda)Trumpets (from the German of Georg Trakl); De Profundis (Trakl); The Rats (Trakl); A Winter Night (Trakl); Sleep (Trakl); I Am Freed (from the Spanish of César Vallejo); White Rose (Vallejo); A Divine Falling of Leaves (Vallejo); Our Daily Bread (Vallejo); The Eternal Dice (Vallejo); The Big People (Vallejo); Down to the Dregs (Vallejo); Not in Marble Palaces (from the Spanish of Pedro Salinas); Anacreon's Grave (from the German of Goethe); THE BRANCH WILL NOT BREAK; As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor

Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-10944-1

9786613109446

0-8195-6983-6

OCLC:

767498552