Collected Poems

by Hayden, Robert; Glaysher, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780871401380
• ISBN10: 087140138X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-07-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Poems deal with dreams, nature, mortality, concentration camps, travel, memory, and the experiences of Black Americans

Table of Contents

The Diver	p. 3
Electrical Storm	p. 5
Full Moon	p. 7
Dawnbreaker	p. 8
The Rabbi	p. 9
Belsen, Day of Liberation	p. 10
Approximations	p. 11
Snow	p. 12
The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield	p. 13
Night, Death, Mississippi	p. 15
"An Inference of Mexico"	p. 17
Day of the Dead	p. 17
Mountains	p. 18
Veracruz	p. 19
Idol	p. 21
Sub Specie Aeternitatis	p. 22
Market	p. 23
Kid	p. 25
La Corrida	p. 26
A Ballad of Remembrance	p. 27
Tour 5	p. 29
Gulls	p. 30
A Road in Kentucky	p. 31
Homage to the Empress of the Blues	p. 32
"The Burly Fading One"	p. 33
"Incense of the Lucky Virgin"	p. 34
Witch Doctor	p. 35
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday	p. 38
"Summertime and the Living..."	p. 39
The Whipping	p. 40
Those Winter Sundays	p. 41
The Web	p. 42
The Wheel	p. 43
Perseus	p. 44
Theme and Variation	p. 45
"From the Corpse Woodpiles, from the Ashes"	p. 46
Baha'u'llah in the Garden of Ridwan	p. 47
Middle Passage	p. 48
O Dacdalus, Fly Away Home	p. 55
The Ballad of Nat Turner	p. 56
Runagate Runagate	p. 59
Frederick Douglass	p. 62
Sphinx	p. 65
The Dream	p. 66
"'Mystery Boy' Looks for Kin in Nashville"	p. 68
The Broken Dark	p. 69
The Mirages	p. 70
Soledad	p. 71
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves	p. 72
Locus	p. 76
On Lookout Mountain	p. 77
Kodachromes of the Island	p. 78
Zeus over Redeye	p. 81
Unidentified Flying Object	p. 83
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz	p. 86
Words in the Mourning Time	p. 90
Monet's "Waterlilies"	p. 101
The Lions	p. 102
October	p. 103
The Return	p. 107
"Lear is Gay"	p. 108
A Plague of Starlings	p. 109
Richard Hunt's "Arachne"	p. 113
The Night-Blooming Cereus	p. 114
The Performers	p. 117
The Peacock Room	p. 118
Smelt Fishing	p. 120
"Dance the Orange"	p. 121
Traveling through Fog	p. 122
Beginnings	p. 125
Free Fantasia: Tiger Flowers	p. 130
For a Young Artist	p. 132
Stars	p. 134
Two Egyptian Portrait Masks	p. 139
Nefert-iti	p. 139
Akhenaten	p. 140
Butterfly Piece	p. 141
The Moose Wallow	p. 142
Crispus Attucks	p. 143
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley	p. 147
John Brown	p. 149
Theory of Evil	p. 154
Paul Laurence Dunbar	p. 156
Homage to Paul Robeson	p. 157
The Rag Man	p. 158
The Prisoners	p. 159
The Tattooed Man	p. 160
Elegies for Paradise Valley	p. 163
Names	p. 171
Double Feature	p. 172
The Dogwood Trees	p. 173
Letter	p. 174
Ice Storm	p. 175
"As My Blood Was Drawn"	p. 176
Killing the Calves	p. 178
The Year of the Child	p. 179
The Point	p. 181
Zinnias	p. 182
The Islands	p. 183
Bone-Flower Elegy	p. 185
from THE SNOW LAMP	p. 186
Astronauts	p. 190
[American Journal]	p. 192
Notes	p. 197
Index of Titles	p. 199
Index of First Lines	p. 203
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