White nights / Alan Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Alan, 1955- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

v, 65 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Rhinebeck, NY : The Sheep Meadow Press, [2017]

Summary:

Alan Jenkins was born in 1955 and has lived for most of his life in London, where he works at the Times Literary Supplement. He has taught creative writing in Paris and the United States, and is currently poet-in-residence at St. John's College, Cambridge. His earlier collections of poetry include Harm (1994), A Shorter Life (2005), Revenants (2013), Marine (with John Kinsella) and Paper-Money Lyrics (both 2015). A Short History of Snakes: New and Selected Poems was published in the U.S. in 2001. Book jacket.

Contents:

From Lives of the Poet 1

To Louise 9

Christ in the Olive-Grove 11

Voyage to Cythera 13

Long After (Baudelaire) 15

Long After (Mallarmé) 17

Vesuvins & Co. 18

Epitaph 19

Classical Walpurgisnacht 21

First Soirée 23

The Drunken Boat 24

The Plundered Heart 28

Anadyomene 29

Winter Coming On 30

Long After (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz) 33

Yaravi 35

Long After (Francis Jammes) 37

Elsa at the Mirror 38

Thin 40

The Laforgue of Pearson Park: A Fantasia 42

I Could Write the Saddest Lines 45

Little Bequest 47

Archipelago 48

Barcelona 49

The Breakfast 54

Itch (The Flea's Retort) 60

At the Grave of Joseph Brodsky 61.

ISBN:

9781937679460

1937679462

OCLC:

985974616