Collected Poems Kunitz Pa

by Kunitz,Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780393322941
• ISBN10: 0393322947
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"This volume may be the best that America has to offer today. Buy this book, read it, treasure it."-"Philadelphia Inquirer"

Author Biography

Stanley Kunitz was Poet Laureate of the United States, 2000-2001. He is a recipient of the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes and many other honors, most recently the National Medal of the Arts. He lives in New York City and Provincetown. Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Reflections	13	(4)
from INTELLECTUAL THINGS (1930)
Change	17	(1)
Single Vision	18	(2)
Particular Lullaby	20	(1)
Promise Me	21	(1)
Strange Calendar	22	(1)
Poem	23	(2)
Deciduous Branch	25	(1)
The Words of the Preacher	26	(1)
Ambergris	27	(1)
Approach of Autumn	28	(1)
The Pivot	29	(1)
He	30	(1)
Very Tree	31	(2)
Prophecy on Lethe	33	(1)
Lovers Relentlessly	34	(1)
Nocturne	35	(1)
For Proserpine	36	(1)
Parting	37	(1)
I Dreamed That I Was Old	38	(1)
Night-Piece	39	(1)
Between Me and the Rock	40	(1)
Transformations	41	(1)
First Love	42	(1)
Last Words	43	(1)
Eagle	44	(1)
So Intricately Is This World Resolved	45	(1)
Benediction	46	(2)
In a Strange House	48	(1)
Master and Mistress	49	(1)
Organic Bloom	50	(1)
Beyond Reason	51	(1)
The Lesson	52	(1)
Vita Nuova	53	(4)
from PASSPORT TO THE WAR (1944)
Reflection by a Mailbox	57	(1)
The Last Picnic	58	(1)
Welcome the Wrath	59	(1)
Night Letter	60	(2)
Father and Son	62	(2)
The Hemorrhage	64	(2)
The Harsh Judgment	66	(1)
Confidential Instructions	67	(1)
The Signal from the House	68	(1)
The Tutored Child	69	(1)
The Economist's Song	70	(1)
The Old Clothes Man	71	(2)
The Fitting of the Mask	73	(2)
The Supper Before Last	75	(1)
The Daughters of the Horseleech	76	(1)
Careless Love	77	(1)
The Guilty Man	78	(1)
Between the Acts	79	(1)
This Day This World	80	(1)
The Last Question	81	(1)
How Long Is the Night?	82	(1)
The Reckoning	83	(1)
Open the Gates	84	(3)
from THIS GARLAND, DANGER, IN SELECTED POEMS: 1928-1958
The Science of the Night	87	(2)
Green Ways	89	(1)
When the Light Falls	90	(1)
Among the Gods	91	(1)
As Flowers Are	92	(1)
The Waltzer in the House	93	(1)
Sotto Voce	94	(1)
Grammar Lesson	95	(1)
She Wept, She Railed	96	(1)
Foreign Affairs	97	(2)
The Unwithered Garland	99	(1)
The Man Upstairs	100	(1)
The Approach to Thebes	101	(2)
The Dark and the Fair	103	(2)
The Thief	105	(3)
End of Summer	108	(1)
Goose Pond	109	(1)
The Dragonfly	110	(3)
The War Against the Trees	113	(2)
The Thing That Eats the Heart	115	(1)
By Lamplight	116	(1)
The Scourge	117	(1)
Hermetic Poem	118	(1)
To the Reader (Baudelaire)	119	(2)
The Way Down	121	(3)
The Class Will Come to Order	124	(2)
The Summing-Up	126	(1)
Revolving Meditation	127	(3)
A Spark of Laurel	130	(5)
from THE TESTING-TREE (1971)
Journal for My Daughter	135	(6)
An Old Cracked Tune	141	(1)
The Portrait	142	(1)
The Magic Curtain	143	(3)
After the Last Dynasty	146	(2)
The Illumination	148	(1)
Robin Redbreast	149	(2)
River Road	151	(2)
Summer Solstice (Mandelstam)	153	(1)
Tristia (Mandelstam)	154	(2)
The Mound Builders	156	(3)
The Customs Collector's Report	159	(2)
The Gladiators	161	(2)
The System	163	(1)
Around Pastor Bonhoeffer	164	(3)
Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg)	167	(1)
Three Floors	168	(1)
The Flight of Apollo	169	(1)
King of the River	170	(3)
The Mulch	173	(1)
Indian Summer at Land's End	174	(1)
Cleopatra (Akhmatova)	175	(1)
Dante (Akhmatova)	176	(1)
Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova)	177	(2)
The Artist	179	(1)
The Testing-Tree	180	(4)
The Game	184	(3)
from THE LAYERS, IN THE POEMS OF STANLEY KUNITZ 1928-1978
The Knot	187	(1)
What of the Night?	188	(2)
Quinnapoxet	190	(2)
Words for the Unknown Makers	192	(5)
To a Slave Named Job	192	(1)
Sacred to the Memory	192	(1)
Girl with Sampler	193	(1)
Trompe l'Oeil	194	(1)
A Blessing of Women	194	(3)
The Catch	197	(1)
The Crystal Cage	198	(2)
Signs and Portents	200	(3)
Firesticks	203	(1)
The Lincoln Relics	204	(4)
Meditations on Death (Ungaretti)	208	(4)
The Quarrel	212	(1)
The Unquiet Ones	213	(1)
My Sisters	214	(1)
Route Six	215	(2)
The Layers	217	(4)
from NEXT-TO-LAST THINGS (1985)
The Snakes of September	221	(1)
The Abduction	222	(2)
Raccoon Journal	224	(3)
The Old Darned Man	227	(2)
The Scene (Blok)	229	(1)
The Image-Maker	230	(1)
Lamplighter: 1914	231	(2)
Day of Foreboding	233	(1)
Three Small Parables for My Poet Friends	234	(2)
The Round	236	(2)
Passing Through	238	(2)
The Long Boat	240	(1)
The Wellfleet Whale	241	(8)
from PASSING THROUGH: THE LATER POEMS (1955)
My Mother's Pears	249	(2)
Chariot	251	(2)
In the Dark House	253	(3)
Halley's Comet	256	(2)
Hornworm: Summer Reverie	258	(1)
Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation	259	(2)
The Sea, That Has No Ending...	261	(3)
Proteus	264	(2)
Touch Me	266	(1)
Notes	267	(12)
Acknowledgment	279	(2)
Index	281