The Book of Repulsive Women And Other Poems

by Barnes, Djuna; Loncraine, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781857547078
• ISBN10: 1857547071
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-28
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Published together for the first time, this collection features work from 1914 to the 1970smany pieces first appearing in pamphlets and literary journals in New York and Parisincluding illustrations by the author.

Author Biography

Djuna Barnes was born in Great Britain and moved to New York in 1911, where she briefly studied at the Pratt Institute of Art. In the 1920s she moved to Paris, where she lived and worked amongst the literary-expatriate community until she moved back to New York. She is the author of The Antiphon, Ladies Almanack, Nightwood, and Ryder. Rebecca Loncraine is a former research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Sources
Further Reading
The Dreamer	p. 1
Call of the Night	p. 2
Just Lately Drummer Boy	p. 3
'Six Carried Her Away'	p. 4
Solitude	p. 6
The Personal God	p. 7
Jungle Jargon	p. 9
This Much and More	p. 10
From Fifth Avenue Up	p. 11
In General	p. 14
From Third Avenue On	p. 15
Seen from the 'L'	p. 17
In Particular	p. 18
Twilight of the Illicit	p. 19
To a Cabaret Dancer	p. 21
Suicide	p. 23
Death	p. 25
In Conclusion	p. 26
Dust	p. 27
Birth	p. 28
The Yellow Jar	p. 29
The Last Toast	p. 30
To an Idol	p. 31
Shadows	p. 32
Love Song	p. 33
Lines to a Lady	p. 35
The Lament of Women	p. 36
To the Hands of a Beloved	p. 37
To One in Favour	p. 38
To a Bird	p. 39
To the Dead Favourite of Liu Ch'e	p. 40
To One Feeling Differently	p. 41
She Passed This Way	p. 42
Crystals	p. 43
The Child Would Be Older	p. 44
To One in Another Mood	p. 45
I'd Have You Think of Me	p. 46
The Flowering Corpse	p. 47
Song in Autumn	p. 48
First Communion	p. 49
Hush Before Love	p. 50
Antique	p. 51
Pastoral	p. 52
Paradise	p. 54
Six Songs of Khalidine	p. 55
Lullaby	p. 57
Finis	p. 58
Quarry	p. 59
The Walking-Mort	p. 60
Rite of Spring	p. 61
Creatures in an Alphabet	p. 62
When the Kissing Flesh is Gone	p. 66
Portrait of a Lady Walking	p. 67
Lament for Wretches, Every One	p. 68
As Cried	p. 69
As Cried	p. 70
Discant (There should be gardens)	p. 71
Satires (Satires of Don Pasquin)	p. 72
Discontent	p. 73
Dereliction	p. 74
Dereliction (Augusta said)	p. 75
Dereliction and Virgin Spring	p. 76
Laughing Lamentations of Dan Corbeau	p. 77
The Bo Tree	p. 78
Discant (His mother said)	p. 79
Discant (He said to the Don)	p. 80
Verse	p. 81
Therefore Sisters	p. 82
Laughing Lamentations	p. 83
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