Poems 1955-2005.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Anne

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Women poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tarset : Bloodaxe Books, 2006.

Summary:

Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal feeling, and a sharp wit with an original brand of serious humour. ""Poems 1955-2005"" is a remaking of Anne Stevenson'searlier Collected Poems, drawing on over a dozen previous collections as we

Contents:

Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; The Inn; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; Prologue; Making Poetry; Saying the World; The Sun Appears in November; From an Unfinished Poem; The Fiction Makers; Gannets Diving; North Sea off Carnoustie; Moonrise; If I Could Paint Essences; Swifts; In the Tunnel of Summers; A Report from the Border; Small Philosophical Poem; Vertigo; I : The Way You Say the World; Living in America; Sierra Nevada; Still Life in Utah; Ann Arbor; Going Back; The Dear Ladies of Cincinnati; Harvard; Nightmare in North Carolina; A Summer Place; Ruin; New York

A Hot Night in New YorkJournal Entry: Ward's Island; England; The Women; Fen People; A River; In Middle England; Travelling Behind Glass; From the Motorway; Branch Line; A Tourists' Guide to the Fens; Coming Back to Cambridge; Temporarily in Oxford; Lockkeeper's Island; By the Boat House, Oxford; Walking Early by the Wye; Burnished; Himalayan Balsam; Whose Goat?; Earth Station; The Wrekin; Binoculars in Ardudwy; The Unaccommodated; Phoenicurus phoenicurus; Pity the Birds; A Present; The Wind, the Sun and the Moon; Under Moelfre; Attacking the Waterfall; Why Take Against Mythology (1)

Why Take Against Mythology (2)Spring Poem; Without Me; May Bluebells, Coed Aber Artro; Leaving; Pennine; Shale; A Prayer to Live with Real People; Household Gods; Forgotten of the Foot; Demolition; Spring Song; November; From My Study; Winter Time; Salter's Gate; Claude Glass; Jarrow; North Easter; Skills; Night Walking with Shadows; Spring Again; 17.14 Out of Newcastle; American Rhetoric for Scotland; East Coast; The Mudtower; The Fish Are All Sick; The Man in the Wind; Cramond; Inverkirkaig; Buzzard and Alder; Cold; Path; Resurrection; Enough of Green; In the Weather of Deciduous Souls

II : Seven AgesEpigraph; The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument; The Victory; Stabilities; Poem for a Daughter; To My Daughter in a Red Coat; In March; With My Sons at Boarhills; In the Nursery; To Phoebe; Little Paul and the Sea; Four and a Half Dancing Men; The Holly and the Ivy; The Doctor; A Surprise on the First Day of School; Innocence and Experience; At Thirteen; Incident; Suicide; Transparencies; Sous-entendu; Love; Politesse; Aubade; Reversals; Two Love Poems; Wanted; Posted; Drought; After the End of It; An Impenitent Ghost; 'All Canal Boat Cruises Start Here'; This; In the House

Night Thoughts and False ConfessionsThe Suburb; The Takeover; The Mother; Generations; Five Poems of Innocence and Experience; The Other House; Old Wife's Tale; Eros; Questionable; False Flowers; On Watching a Cold Woman Wade into a Cold Sea; Musician's Widow; The Professor's Tale; Stone Fig; Hadrian's; A Sepia Garden; Bloody Bloody; Black Hole; Lost; A Tricksy June; Granny Scarecrow; To witness pain is a different form of pain; Who's Joking with the Photographer?; After Her Death; Apology; The Loss; Hands; The Minister; Siskin; The White Room; Elegy

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Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781780370033

1780370032

OCLC:

794327641