The Collected Poems Of Theodore Roethke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roethke, Theodore

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, an imprint of Doubleday, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the publication of Open House in 1941, Theodore Roethke began a career which established him as one of the most respected American poets. His subsequent volumes included The Waking, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, Words for the Wind, recipient of a National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of Yale University, and the posthumously published The Far Field, which won a National Book Award in 1965. Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published books as well as sixteen previously uncollected poems. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source in American poetry.

Contents:

Open House (1941) I Open house

Feud

Death piece

Prognosis

To my sister

Premonition

Interlude

Orders for the day

Prayer

Signals

Adamant II Light comes brighter

Slow season

Mid-country blow

In praise of prairie

Coming of the cold 1 Late peach yields a subtle musk 2 ribs of leaves lie in the dust 3 Small brook dies within its bed

Heron

Bat III No bird

Unextinguished

Long live the weeds

Genesis

Epidermal Macabre

Against disaster

Reply to censure

Auction

Silence

On the road to Woodlawn IV Academic

For an amorous lady

Poetaster

Vernal senitminet

Prayer before study

My dim-wit cousin

Verse with allusions V Ballad of the Clairvoyant Widow

Favorite

Reminder

Gentle

Reckoning

Lull

Sale

Highway: Michigan

Idyll

Night journey Lost son and other poems (1948) I

Cuttings

Cuttings (later)

Root cellar

Forcing house

Weed puller

Orchids

Moss-gathering

Big wind

Old florist

Transplanting

Child on top of a greenhouse

Flower dump

Carnations

Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze II My Papa's waltz

Pickle belt

Dolor

Double feature

Return

Last words

Judge not III Night crow

River incident

Minimal

Cycle

Waking IV Lost son 1 Flight 2 Pit 3 Gibber 4 Return 5 It was beginning winter

Long alley

field of light

Shape of the fire From Praise to the end (1951) I Where knock is open wide

I need, I need

Bring the day

Give way, ye Gates

Sensibility! O La!

O lull me, lull me II Priase to the end!

Unfold! Unfold!

I cry, Love Love! From the Waking (1953) O, thou opening, O

Visitant

Light breather

Elegy for Jane

Old Lady's winter words

Four for Sir John Davies 1 Dance

2 Partner

3 Wraith

4 Vigil

Waking From Words for the wind (1958) I Lighter pieces and poems for children

Song for the squeeze box

Reply to a Lady Editor

Dinky

Cow

Serpent

Sloth

Lady and the bear II Love poems Dream

all the Earth, all the air

Words for the wind

I knew a woman

Voice

She

Other

Sententious man

Pure fury

Renewal

Sensualists

Love's progress

Surly one

Plaint

Swan

Memory III Voices and Creatures Shimmer of evil

Elegy

Beast

Song

Exorcism

Small

Walk in late Summer

Snake

Slug

Siskins

IV Dying man Dying man

1 His words 2 What now? 3 Wall 4 Exulting 5 They sing, they sing

V Meditations of an Old Woman

First meditation

I'm here

Her becoming

Fourth meditation

What can I tell my bones? From I am! Says the Lamb (1961) Nonsense poems Ktty-cat bird

Whale

Yak

Donkey

Ceiling

Chair

Myrtle

Myrtle's cousin

Goo-girl

Gnu

Monotony Song

Philander

Hippo

Boy and the bust

Lamb

Lizard

Wagtail

Far field (1964) I North American sequence

Longing

Meditation at Oyster River

Journey to the Interior

Long Waters

Far field

Rose

II Love Poems

Young girl

Her words

Apparition

Her reticence

Her longing

Her time

Light listened

Happy three

His foreboding

Shy man

Her wrath

Wish for a young wife

III Mixed sequence

Abyss

Otto

Chums

Meadow mouse

Heard in a violent ward

Geranium

On the Quay

Storm (Forio d'Ischia)

Thing

Pike

All morning

Manifestation

Song

Tranced

Moment

IV Sequence, sometimes metaphysical

In a dark time

In evening air

Sequel

Motion

Infirmity

Decision

Marrow

I waited

Tree, the bird

Restored

Right thing

Once more, the Round

Previously uncollected poems

Light poem

Meditation in hydrotherapy

Lines upon leaving a Sanitarium

Changeling

Follies of Adam

Three Epigrams 1 Pipling 2 Mistake 3 Centaur

Harsh Country

Rouse for Stevens

Saginaw Song

Gob Music

Reply

Duet

Supper with Lindsay.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

0-307-76047-2

OCLC:

1156048911