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Hang-Gliding From Helicon : New and Selected Poems 1948-1988
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffman, Daniel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- When Daniel Hoffman published a brief volume of selected poems in England, the Times Literary Supplement praised "his zestful verbal performance, supple use of rhyme and other sound effects". That same vitality inform Hang-Gliding from Helicon, which presents more than forty new poems and a selection from six of Hoffman's previous books.
- Contents:
- Hang-Gliding From Helicon
- Hang-Gliding from Helicon
- Preface
- Dedication
- The Poem
- From An Armada of Thirty Whales (1954)
- Incubus
- The seals in Penobscot Bay
- An armada of thirty whales
- At Provincetown
- That the pear delights me now
- The clams
- Old Bug up there
- On the extinction of a species
- The larks
- The voice of the woodthrush, played at half speed,
- Auricle's oracle
- Ephemeridae
- I dreamt my love a-dying lay
- From A Little Geste (1960)
- In the Beginning
- The Hermit of Cape Rosier
- Exploration
- Safari
- Flushing Meadows, 1939
- In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin
- Awoke into a Dream of Singing
- From The City of Satisfactions (1963)
- A New Birth
- A Meeting
- The Chosen
- The Unchosen
- Climbing Katahdin
- In That High House
- Saint-Apollinaire
- Dijon
- Vezelay
- 1956
- A Letter to Wilbur Frohock
- Gestures
- Mi-Carême
- The Pursued
- The City of Satisfactions
- The Great Horse Strode Without a Rider
- As I Was Going to Saint-Ives
- From Striking the Stones (1968)
- The Way It Is
- There
- Testament
- In the Pitch of Night
- In Provence
- Instructions to a Medium, to be transmitted to the shade of W.B. Yeats, the latter having responded in a séance held on 13 June 1965, its hundredth birthday:
- Words for Dr. Williams
- A Visitation
- On the Industrial Highway
- Shaking the President's Hand
- Crop-Dusting
- The Peaceable Kingdom
- I
- II
- III
- Open Letter, Returning a Questionnaire Unanswered
- Breathing Purely
- Banished
- Moving Among the Creatures
- Signatures
- At Evening
- Far-Off Light
- Inviolable
- First Flight
- A Solitary
- The Companion
- 'He was the first who had returned'
- The Last Arrival
- 'When my wiser brother'
- The Way He Went
- The Victor
- Lines for Jack Clemo
- The Wastrel
- Keys
- The Summerhouse
- The Tale-Teller
- Another Country
- 'It cannot come because desired'
- A Marriage
- 'Who was it came'
- Another Border
- From Broken Laws (1970)
- Aphrodite
- A Fortune
- Over the rim
- In the Graeco-Roman Room
- A Trip
- A Special Train
- A Natural Philosopher
- A Historian
- A Dreamer
- A Marked Man
- A Casualty
- A Waking
- Resolution
- Northern Lights
- Snow
- February
- Thaw
- An April
- Summer Solstice
- Singing
- The Sounds
- This Silence
- I am the Sun
- Aubade
- Snatches for Charles Ives
- From The Center of Attention (1974)
- After God
- The Twentieth Century
- Dark of the Moon
- The Center of Attention
- The Translators' Party
- The Princess Casamassima
- Power
- The Sonnet
- Print-Out Song
- O Personages
- Comanches
- Brainwaves
- Tree
- Shrew
- Boar
- Dogfish
- Blood
- Egg
- Rats
- Eagles
- Burning Bush
- Shell
- Wherever
- North
- East
- South
- West
- The Wanderer
- Runner
- Sickness
- Evening
- A Dread
- A Woe
- Thought I Was Dying
- Vows
- I [By Hoffman, D., 1923-]
- Himself
- His Steps
- A Stone
- Folk Tale
- The Sacred Fount
- Possession
- Stop the Deathwish! Stop It! Stop!
- II [By Hoffman, D., 1923-]
- The Great American Novel
- Asleep
- A Barn Burnt in Ohio
- High Society
- At the Roman Wall, 1956
- Fontaine-les-Dijon Revisited
- Reasons
- Night Fishing
- Ode to Joy
- III [By Hoffman, D., 1923-]
- The Battle of Hastings
- Witnesses
- Jogger
- Crack!
- Slick
- Mother
- Scrolls from the Dead
- Halflives
- The Finish
- IV [By Hoffman, D., 1923-]
- David's Folly
- Great Owl
- A Stillness
- That Morning
- Old Reprobate
- Last Lynx
- At Don's Garage
- Ants
- Lines for Scott Nearing
- A Felled Tree
- V [By Hoffman, D., 1923-]
- Words
- Problems of Knowledge
- Essay on Style
- Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge
- Mark Twain, 1909
- A Letter to W. H. Auden
- Her Obedient Servant
- Reflections.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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