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Collected poetry and prose of Lawrence Fixel / Lawrence Fixel ; Edited and with an introduction by Gerald Fleming.

PS3556.I96 C65 2020

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Fixel, Lawrence, author.
Language:: English
Genre:: Poetry.
Physical Description:: 571 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: San Francisco, CA ; Sixteen Rivers Press, [2020]
Contents:: Machine generated contents note: Truth, War, and the Dream-Game: Selected Prose Poems and Parables, 1966; 1990 (1991); Foreword to Truth, War, and the Dream-Game; Tracking Stations: New and Selected Parables, 1966; 1981; pt. One The Flight/The Quest; Flight Patterns; Above It All; Give Up, Give Up; Destruction of the Temple; The Departure/The Return; The Refugees/The Pilgrims; The Base Camp; Absent Without Leave; The Crossing; Leaving the City; pt. Two The Watchers/The Watched; The Invaders; The Situation Room; The Retreat of the Leaders; The Leopards/The Temple; Trading with the Enemy; Caesar's Thumb; The Contest; The Cage: The Performance; The Actor: Farewell & Return; The Trouble with Winds; pt. Three The Codes/The Signals; The Hat, The Indian, The Lizard; The Given Day; The Career of Hands; A Simple, Factual Report; Reading the Text; The Master; The Sacrifice; Protective Measures; The Shrinking City; The Knock; pt. Four The Myths/The Emblems; The Fifth Room; The Message/The Messenger; Angel in the Freezer; Reading Borges; The Choice; The Loaves/The Fishes; The Dark Pattern; The Return of Sadhu; Say We Are Going; The News from Dronesville; The Trial of Two Cities; More Than a Thing; Chance Scripts: Selected Prose Poems, 1970; 1987; The Concert Hall/The Big Tent/The Pasture; Goodbye to a Village; Limbo; The Book/The Mailing; The Error Catastrophe; The Candidate/The Canceled Child; Framis: More or Less Himself; The Lost Parable; Second to the Wolf; No Time for Gestures; A Picture in the Voice?; The Feathers of My Wife; Between Worlds; The Agony of Crevices; One Vote for the Vulture; A Stone Taking Notes; How Tall Was Toulouse-Lautrec?; Among Other Things; Question of a Shovel; Life & Death of a Guide; Say He Arrives There; The Door to Have; The Door to Have (2); The Trouble with Keys; Truth, War, and the Dream-Game; The Place/The Name/The Child; Structural Pursuits: Prose Poems and Parables, 1987; 1990; The Photographers; Words Out of Reach; Kafka's Bridge; The Bridge to Dream/to Remember; The Awakening; Portrait of the Man: As Novelist; More About Stones; Wind, Says the Voice; The Jugglers; The Poet Digs a Hole; The Cheering Section; Who Waits for Whom?; The Universal Delivery Service; The Fourth Step; Next Is This; Afterword to Truth, War, and the Dream-Game; From The Scale of Silence: Parables (1970); The Garden; The Prisoner; The Examination; The Circus/The Zoo; The Travel Agent; The Portrait; From The Edge of Something (1977); The Edge of Something; Notes on Beato Angelico; The House/The Doors; The Graduate; The Man Who Was; Afterword to The Edge of Something; Through Deserts of Snow (1975); The Book of Glimmers (1979); For the Reader; Glimmers One: Unfinished Circumstance; Glimmers Two: Weights/Measures/Affections; Glimmers Three: Mining Shadows; Notes and Further Work-Points to The Book of Glimmers; Afterword to The Book of Glimmers; From Unlawful Assembly: A Gathering of Poems, 1940; 1990 (1994); Letter to a Friend, 1941; In That Which Passes; Looking Backward; Looking Toward; Landing in Idaho; Riding the Bus in Sicily; Italy, 1978; On the Death of Aldo Moro (Rome, May 9, 1978); Year of the Bloodhound; Song for the Ending of the Year; Studying the Season; Speech to the Sentries; News the Body Brings; Beginning; Breathing Lessons; Coming to This Place; Doctor, Doctor; Digging In; On a Recent Suicide (G.A., June 1973); Figure into Form; Rising; Sixty She Says; Left Hand/Right Hand; Water, Sky, and Unmarked Time; Northpoint; As Helmsman; Elsewhere Then It Happens; Encounters on the River; Entering Waters; Evolution; By God and by Guess; The Color of the Sky; Present Shores; Slipping Away; The Stranger: As Balloonist; Echoes and Entrances; The Identity of an Hour; Take This City Now; All at Once; City Between the Lines; Dreaming Gardens; The Fool Not Yet Complete; The Survivors: A Legend; Return to the Air; Beyond the Name and Number; What the Wastebasket Tells; Notes on a Doppelganger; Guesswork; Equations; Born Unattended; The Apex Travel Service; Therefore; Unsaying; The Unnamed; Something That the Name Gathers; Afterword to Unlawful Assembly: A Time to Gather; Among the Missing; Another Time, Another Voyage; Lost Subjects/Found Objects (1998); Foreword to Lost Subjects/Found Objects; pt. One Rope Song; Dreaming the Figure; Morning With/Without Love; The Sleep, the Waking; Chopin in Alaska; Ghost Farm; The Torturer's Horse; pt. Two Assault on the White Frame House; Schliemann at Mycenae; pt. Three One of a Kind; Lines in Praise of an American Novelist; George Oppen: 1908; 1984; An Afternoon in Athens; Seekers Awake; Conversations About a City; From All This Is Here (2003); Ritual of Return; The One-Sided Conversation; Light When It Moves; Directed by a Clown, the Cats Perform; Credo; In Distaste; Meditation on a Stuffed Owl; Time to Destroy/to Discover (1972); Uncollected Works; The Conspirators; See It, Believe It, and It Happens; Goodbye Home. Hello Somewhere; The Lecture; Making the Claim; Concentric Propositions; The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder; In the Land of Un. In the Land of Dis; A Horse Called Burden, A Horse Called Venture; Soundings; The Shield: An Inheritance; The Listener; Reflections on a Drowned City; A Little Kitchen Music; The Arms/The Wings; Here as It Happens; Arrow Light. Target Eyes; On the Recent Unpleasantness at Lake College; Along These Ways; Reactionary Poem; Preparing to Leave; Words on Lawrence Fixel; Lawrence Fixel's "Flight Patterns" / Peter Johnson; Measures & Insistencies: Days with Lawrence Fixel / Christina Fisher; Lawrence Fixel: Master of the Prose Poem / David Lazar; On Lawrence Fixel's Truth, War, and the Dream-Game / Donald L. Soucy; To begin / Edward Mycue; Parable, Parabola, Possible: On Lawrence Fixel / Sharon Coleman; "Let's Start Where We Are" / Peter Money.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:: 9781939639240; 1939639247
OCLC:: 1144105701
Publisher Number:: 99985051066

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