The Collected Poems

by Stevenson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780192832511
• ISBN10: 0192832514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Anne Stevenson's The Collected Poems brings together forty years of her best poetry, including Correspondences , Living in America , Reversals , Traveling Behind Glass , Enough of Green , Minute by Glass Minute , The Fiction Makers , and Four and a Half Dancing Men . Well known in the United States and Great Britain for the wide variety of her work and voice, Stevenson is one of the twentieth-century's most versatile and lively poets. Wise, funny, witty, and grave, Stevenson is a poet of many moods and subjects, but always preoccupied with language and its music.

Author Biography

About the Author:
Anne Stevenson now lives in Gwynedd, Wales, and in Grantchester, near Cambridge, England. She is the author of a biography of Sylvia Plath and of many critical essays.

Table of Contents

Living in America (1965)	3	(17)
The Traveller	3	(1)
The Women	4	(1)
To My Daughter in a Red Coat	4	(1)
Living in America	5	(1)
Harvard	6	(1)
Fairy Tale	6	(1)
In Winter	7	(1)
Love	7	(2)
The Garden of Intellect	9	(1)
Two Quatrains	10	(1)
Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Hut	10	(1)
Still Life in Utah	11	(1)
Nightmare in North Carolina	11	(1)
Nuns	12	(1)
Ann Arbor (A Profile)	12	(1)
In March	13	(1)
After her Death	14	(1)
Apology	14	(1)
The Dear Ladies of Cincinnati	14	(2)
Opera Piece	16	(1)
Sierra Nevada	17	(1)
The Grey Land	18	(1)
Reversals (1970)	20	(17)
Reversals	20	(1)
Aubade	20	(1)
Sous-entendu	21	(1)
On Not Being Able to Look at the Moon	21	(1)
Two Love Poems	22	(1)
In the House	23	(1)
The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument	24	(1)
Stabilities	25	(1)
The Victory	25	(1)
The Suburb	26	(1)
The Loss	27	(1)
New York	27	(1)
The Watchers	28	(1)
The Takeover	28	(2)
Morning	30	(1)
One Sunday	30	(1)
England	31	(2)
Fen People	33	(1)
In Middle England	33	(2)
The Return	35	(1)
The Mother	35	(1)
A River	35	(2)
Travelling Behind Glass (Selected Poems, 1974)	37	(15)
Siskin	37	(1)
Generations	38	(1)
At Thirteen	38	(1)
Coming Back to Cambridge	39	(2)
Theme with Variations	41	(1)
Five Poems of Innocence and Experience	42	(2)
The Crush	42	(1)
The Marriage	42	(1)
The Affair	43	(1)
The Demolition	43	(1)
Old Scholars	44	(1)
Travelling Behind Glass	44	(7)
On the Edge of the Island	51	(1)
Enough of Green (1977)	52	(22)
The Sun Appears in November	52	(1)
North Sea off Carnoustie	52	(1)
Fire and the Tide	53	(1)
The Exhibition	54	(1)
To Write It	55	(1)
The Mudtower	56	(1)
Path	57	(1)
Aberdeen	57	(1)
With my Sons at Boarhills	58	(1)
Night Wind, Dundee	59	(1)
By the Boat House, Oxford	60	(1)
Posted	60	(1)
Drought	61	(1)
Ragwort	61	(1)
The Minister	62	(1)
The Doctor	62	(1)
Enough of Green	63	(1)
A Summer Place	64	(1)
People Around	65	(1)
Early Rain	66	(1)
Respectable House	67	(1)
Meniscus	67	(1)
Resurrection	68	(1)
The Sirens are Virtuous	68	(2)
In the Orchard	70	(1)
Cain	70	(1)
Jemporarily in Oxford	71	(1)
The Price	72	(1)
Thales and Li Po	72	(1)
After the End of It	73	(1)
Minute by Glass Minute (1982)	74	(25)
If I Could Paint Essences	74	(1)
Buzzard and Alder	75	(1)
Burnished (A Riddle)	75	(1)
Swifts	76	(1)
The Tree	77	(1)
The Garden	78	(1)
Himalayan Balsam	79	(1)
Walking Early by the Wye	80	(1)
Incident	81	(1)
After the Fall	81	(1)
Whose Goat?	82	(1)
Giving Rabbit to my Cat Bonnie	83	(1)
The Fish are all Sick	84	(1)
Pennine	84	(1)
Ah Babel	85	(1)
From the Men of Letters	85	(1)
kSmall Philosophical Poem	86	(1)
He and It (A Pathetic Fantasy)	87	(1)
The Figure in the Carpet	88	(1)
Poem for a Daughter	89	(1)
The Holly and the Ivy	90	(1)
Transparencies	91	(1)
Lockkeeper's Island	92	(2)
Earth Station	94	(1)
The Man in the Wind	95	(1)
Sonnets for Fjive Seasons	96	(3)
This House	96	(1)
Complaint	96	(1)
Between	97	(1)
Statis	97	(1)
The Circle	98	(1)
The Fiction Makers (1985)	99	(22)
From an Unfinished Poem	99	(1)
The Fiction-Makers	99	(2)
Making Poetry	101	(1)
Waving to Elizabeth	102	(1)
Re-reading Jane	103	(1)
The Blue Pool	104	(1)
Shale	105	(1)
A Dream of Stones	106	(1)
Where the Animals Go	107	(1)
Musician's Window	107	(1)
Gannets Diving	108	(1)
Ailanthus with Ghosts	108	(1)
Two Poems for Frances Horovitz	109	(2)
Red Rock Fault	109	(1)
Willow Song	110	(1)
Demolition	111	(1)
A Prayer to Live with Real People	112	(1)
Signs	113	(1)
In the Tunnel of Summers	113	(1)
Gales	114	(1)
Spring Song	114	(1)
On Watching a Cold Woman Wade into a Cold Sea	115	(1)
Household Gods	116	(1)
November	117	(1)
Claude Glass	117	(1)
Epitaph for a Good Mouser	118	(1)
Divorcing	118	(1)
Hands	118	(2)
Dreaming of the Dead	120	(1)
Winter Time & Other Poems (1989)	121	(5)
Jarrow	121	(1)
This	122	(1)
A Love Sequence	123	(1)
Naming the Flowers	124	(2)
The Other House (1990)	126	(30)
In the Nursery	126	(1)
The Other House	126	(2)
Talking Sense to my Senses	128	(1)
Flegy	128	(2)
Inverkirkaig	130	(1)
Ieon	131	(1)
Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor	131	(3)
North Easter: April, 1989	134	(1)
Night Walking with Shadows	135	(1)
Night Thoughts and False Confessions	136	(1)
And even then	137	(1)
Call them Poppies	137	(1)
All Canal Boat Cruises Start Here'	138	(1)
Inquit Deus	139	(1)
From the Motorway	139	(2)
Stone Fig	141	(1)
Cramond	142	(1)
Three Poems for Sylvia Plath	143	(5)
Nightmares, Daymoths	143	(1)
Letter to Sylvia Plath	144	(3)
Hot Wind, Hard Rain	147	(1)
Seven Poems after Francis Bacon	148	(4)
1 Study for a Portrait on a Folding Bed	148	(1)
2 Study of a Dog	148	(1)
3 Three Figures and Portrait	149	(1)
4 Seated Figure	149	(1)
5 Portrait of a Lady	150	(1)
6 Triptych	151	(1)
7 Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh	151	(1)
Ward's Island	152	(2)
Little Paul and the Sea	154	(1)
Calendar	155	(1)
Four and a Half Dancing Men (1993)	156	(41)
Salter's Gate	156	(1)
From My Study	157	(6)
Cold	163	(1)
Brueghel's Snow	164	(1)
Experimental	165	(1)
Four and a Half Dancing Men	166	(2)
Washing the Clocks	168	(1)
Negatives	169	(2)
The Professor's Tale	171	(1)
Hans Memling's Sibylla Sambetha (1480)	172	(1)
Politesse	173	(1)
Trinity at Low Tide	174	(1)
VISITS TO THE CEMETERY OF THE LONG ALIVE	175	(10)
Hadrian's	175	(1)
A Sepia Garden	175	(5)
Bloody Bloody	180	(2)
Black Hole	182	(1)
Lost	183	(1)
A Tricksy June	183	(1)
To Witness Pain	184	(1)
Binoculars in Ardudwy	185	(1)
When the Camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye	186	(1)
Painting It In	187	(1)
Late	188	(1)
Terrorist	189	(1)
Two Poems for John Cole and One for Annabel cole	190	(3)
Dinghy	190	(1)
Cambrian	191	(1)
After You Left	192	(1)
The Unaccommodated	193	(1)
Alas	194	(3)
Occasional verses	197	(12)
An April Epithalamium	197	(1)
The Parson and the Romany	198	(2)
The Balllad of the Made Maid	200	(1)
The Triumvirs	201	(3)
Celebrity	204	(1)
Eros	205	(1)
A Quest	206	(1)
A Post Taalamium	206	(3)
Correspondences, A Family History in Letters	209