The Flashboat Poems Collected and Reclaimed

by Cooper, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780393320879
• ISBN10: 0393320871
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"To be cherished."-Richard Howard "[A] splendid book."-Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents

Foreword	19	(6)
The Weather of Six Mornings: Poems 1954-1967 (1969)
Morning on the St. John's	25	(2)
Leaving Water Hyacinths	27	(1)
The Faithful	28	(1)
Blind Girl	29	(1)
For My Mother in Her First Illness, from a Window Overlooking Notre Dame	30	(1)
Snow in the City	31	(1)
Rock Climbing	32	(3)
The Builder of Houses	35	(3)
For a Very Old Man, on the Death of His Wife	38	(2)
Bermuda	40	(1)
For Thomas Hardy	41	(1)
Practicing for Death	42	(3)
Acceptances	45	(3)
The Sundial	45	(1)
The Graveyard	46	(1)
The Racetrack	47	(1)
In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman	48	(1)
A Little Vesper	49	(1)
Roman Dream	50	(1)
These High White Walls	51	(1)
In the House of the Dying	52	(1)
My Young Mother	53	(1)
The Figure on the Far Side	54	(1)
Iron	55	(1)
All the Leaves Were Green	56	(1)
Letters	57	(1)
The Weather of Six Mornings	58	(6)
March	64	(11)
Feathers	64	(1)
Hunger Moon	65	(1)
El Sueno de la Razon	66	(1)
Back	67	(1)
No More Elegies	68	(1)
In Silence Where We Breathe	69	(1)
Middle Age	70	(1)
Coda	71	(4)
Maps & Windows (1974)
Mercator's World: Poems 1947-1951	75	(20)
Eve	78	(1)
For a Boy Born in Wartime	79	(1)
P.O.W	80	(1)
The Door	81	(1)
a poem with capital letters	82	(1)
Song	83	(1)
The Urge To Tell the Truth	84	(1)
Twins	85	(1)
The Knowledge That Comes Through Experience	86	(1)
Long View from the Suburbs	87	(1)
After the Bomb Tests	88	(2)
In a Room with Picassos	90	(1)
Gaza	91	(1)
Meteors	92	(1)
A Bedside Rune	93	(1)
Obligations	94	(1)
Nothing Has Been Used in the Manufacture of This Poetry That Could Have Been Used in the Manufacture of Bread	95	(28)
Dispossessions: Poems 1968-1973	123	(48)
Messages	125	(1)
Poetry As Continuity	126	(1)
After the Blackout (1965)	127	(1)
Dream in Which the Routine Quality of My Imagination Is Fully Exposed	128	(1)
Cemetery in Pernambuco: Our Lady of Light	129	(1)
95°	130	(1)
Holding Out	131	(1)
Dispossessions	132	(3)
Things	132	(1)
Souvenirs	133	(1)
Inheritances	134	(1)
A Circle, a Square, a Triangle and a Ripple of Water	135	(1)
Suicide Note	136	(1)
A Nightmare of the Suburbs	137	(1)
The Earthquake	138	(1)
Pencil Sketch of Self & Other	139	(1)
Waiting	140	(3)
Scaffolding: Poems 1975-1983 (1984)
The Flashboat	143	(2)
All These Dreams	145	(1)
Scattered Words for Emily Dickinson	146	(1)
S. Eliason 66: Double Portrait of Emily Dickinson and the Rev. Charles Wadsworth	147	(1)
Evening Star (Georgia O'Keeffe)	148	(1)
Olympic Rain Forest	149	(1)
Starting with a Line from Roethke	150	(1)
The River in All Lights, from an Upstairs Window	151	(1)
Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic---15th Century	152	(1)
A Mission with the Night	153	(1)
Rent	154	(1)
Conversation by the Body's Light	155	(1)
Praise	156	(1)
The Blue Anchor	157	(1)
Threads: Rosa Luxemburg from Prison	158	(13)
Wronke, Spring 1917	158	(3)
Breslau, November-December 1917	161	(4)
Breslau, Spring 1918	165	(6)
Green Notebook, Winter Road: Poems 1981-1993 (1994)
On the Edge of the Moment	171	(16)
The Green Notebook	173	(1)
Ordinary Detail	174	(1)
My friend	175	(1)
My Mother in Three Acts	176	(1)
What the Seer Said	177	(2)
Estrangement	179	(1)
Long, Disconsolate Lines	180	(1)
Mourning Picture	181	(1)
For the Recorder of Suicides	182	(1)
Nothing I Meant To Keep	183	(1)
Bloodroot	184	(1)
The Calling	185	(2)
Family Stories	187	(26)
Hotel de Dream	189	(2)
Mary Coldwell	191	(1)
From the Journal Concerning My Father	192	(5)
Childhood in Jacksonville, Florida	197	(1)
The Hobby Lobby	198	(2)
Class	200	(1)
Wanda's Blues	201	(1)
The Past	202	(1)
Being Southern	203	(2)
Seventeen Questions About King Kong	205	(2)
Clementene	207	(2)
How Can I Speak for Her?	209	(4)
Give Us This Day	213	(18)
The Infusion Room	215	(3)
The Children's Ward	218	(13)
Vocation: A Life	231	(20)
The Winter Road	233	(4)
Vocation: A Life: Suite Based on Four Words from Willa Cather	237	(14)
Desire	237	(3)
Romance	240	(2)
Possession	242	(4)
Unfurnishing	246	(5)
Notes	251	(6)
Acknowledgments	257	(2)
Index	259