Letters to Ted

by Weissbort, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780856463419
• ISBN10: 0856463418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

remarkable collection of poems in memory of the bestselling British poet of recent times, Ted Hughes.

Author Biography

Daniel Weissbort was born in 1935. He studied History and did graduate work in the politics of post-Stalin Soviet literature. He has published translations of several Russian poets, including Nikolai Zabolotsky, as well as several volumes of his own verse. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Getting There	13	(1)
Flowers	14	(1)
Still	14	(1)
Departure of the Hearse	15	(1)
Intro	15	(1)
Americas	16	(1)
Hyperbole	16	(1)
Ally	17	(1)
``Uncle Wolf''	18	(1)
Winter is Coming In	19	(1)
Your Death?	20	(1)
Silently	20	(1)
Our Magazine	21	(1)
What's Left	22	(1)
Narrative	23	(1)
Remember Cambridge!	24	(1)
The Complete Works	24	(1)
No Alias	25	(1)
Playing the Game	26	(1)
Gordian Knot	27	(2)
Mnemonics	29	(2)
Art Confused	31	(1)
Translation	32	(1)
Clutter	33	(1)
Feng Shui	34	(1)
Sleight of Hand	35	(1)
Hear	35	(1)
Court Green After	36	(1)
Literalness	37	(1)
Pedagogue	38	(1)
A Dedication	39	(1)
Some Thoughts on the Thought-Fox	40	(2)
Another Dedication	42	(1)
Black Ice	43	(1)
Having One's Say	44	(2)
A Bad Mistake	46	(1)
Taking You with Me	47	(1)
Your Voice Inside the Abbey	48	(1)
Our Job	49	(1)
In Greys	50	(1)
Band Stand: Karlovy Vary	51	(1)
Eel-Fishing	52	(1)
Letters from Iceland	53	(1)
Untranslated	54	(1)
Cornucopia	55	(1)
Pity the Man Whom All Men Love	56	(1)
Healer	57	(1)
Not Saint Botolph's: an Antidote	58	(1)
Betrayal?	59	(2)
On Your Retinue	61	(1)
Venice and the Rice Diet	62	(1)
A Translation	63	(2)
Lucky!	65	(1)
Saint Botolph's Review	66	(2)
The Garden	68	(1)
Devon to Wales	69	(1)
Hartland	70	(1)
Ordinary	71	(1)
The Cure	72	(1)
My Curiosity	73	(1)
Was it Nature?	74	(1)
A Hypothesis	75	(1)
Our Cambridge	76	(2)
Silence, Worse	78	(1)
Alexandra House	79	(1)
Not Australia	80	(1)
Bairnwick	81	(1)
Listening to an Interview with You, Taped in Court Green, after the Publication of Wolfwatching	82	(1)
Flagrante Delicto	83	(1)
Now	84	(5)
Notes	89