Good Morning And Good Night

by Wagoner, David

• ISBN13: 9780252029998
• ISBN10: 0252029992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and personalities, and poetry for all ages, young and old, amidst a vivid array of memories and explorations. Readers will find homages to the poets that have inspired him, as well as the bountiful lyricism that has made Wagoner's poetry one of our most enduring sources of delight and joy.Good Morning and Good Night features poems previously published in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The New Republic, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other leading literary journals.David Wagoner is the author of seventeen books of poems and ten novels, and editor of Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63. He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Eunice Tjetjens Memorial and English-Speaking Union prizes from Poetry, and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, he was the editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 until its last issue in 2002.A volume in the Illinois Poetry Series, edited by Lawrence Lieberman

Table of Contents

1
The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca	3	(2)
Evening Song on Our Street	5	(2)
Visiting the Lady with the Plant	7	(2)
The Cold Doctor	9	(1)
The Message	10	(1)
Curtains	11	(2)
In the Penny Arcade, 1931	13	(1)
The Bean Sprouts	14	(2)
The Toad	16	(2)
Hooverville	18	(1)
Nick	19	(2)
The Three Monkeys	21	(1)
The Magician	22	(2)
My Father Eating Ice Cream	24	(1)
The Guide	25	(2)
Three Sketches in Watercolor	27	(2)
Keep Out, Tresspassers Will Be Jailed After They Get Out of the Hospitle, This Means You!	29	(2)
Home Owner	31	(2)
Tree House	33	(1)
Climbing a Tree	34	(1)
A Skating Lesson	35	(1)
Pressing Leaves	36	(1)
Breakfast	37	(1)
Lunch	38	(1)
Bedtime	39	(4)
2
Introduction to a Poetry Reading	43	(1)
Arranging a Book of Poems	44	(1)
Trying to Make Music	45	(1)
A Date with the Muse	46	(1)
For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop	47	(1)
Poetry in Motion	48	(1)
In Praise of the High Viscosity of the English Language	49	(1)
Under All Speech	50	(1)
On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory	51	(1)
Mr. Emerson Tries to Complete an Essay	52	(1)
The Three Trolls of Henrik Ibsen	53	(1)
Pablo Neruda Catches the Rain	54	(5)
3
The Models	59	(1)
How to Meet Strange Women	60	(2)
Rehearsing the Death Scene	62	(1)
For an Old Woman Singing in the House Across the Street	63	(1)
For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern	64	(1)
Bad	65	(2)
Whistling	67	(1)
Bad Chairs	68	(1)
At Lunch with the Psychiatrists	69	(1)
A Report on the Excavation	70	(1)
An Entomologist's Memo to Death	71	(2)
Epithalamion	73	(2)
Eating a Toad	75	(4)
4
In a Storm	79	(2)
An Invitation at the Edge of a Desert	81	(1)
Moon Dance	82	(1)
In the Fog	83	(1)
Trying to Help a Stranger	84	(1)
Sleeping Alone	85	(4)
5
Wanted	89	(1)
The Lookout	90	(1)
The Kidnapper	91	(1)
The Detective	92	(2)
The Getaway	94	(3)
6
The Fire-bringers	97	(1)
Sentry	98	(2)
The Secret Agent	100	(2)
Floating	102	(2)
What to Do When Surrounded	104	(1)
In Rubble	105	(2)
Sleeping in a Ditch	107	(4)
7
A Woman Driving a Car Full of Flowers	111	(1)
Have You Any Questions about Your Garden?	112	(1)
At the Edge of a Clear-cut Forest	113	(1)
A Falling Tree	114	(2)
Burnt Offering	116	(1)
The Son of a Carpenter	117	(1)
Big Game	118	(2)
That Hunter	120	(2)
Madman	122	(1)
For a Newborn Muskrat	123	(1)
Snakeskin	124	(1)
After the Eruption	125	(1)
Crossing the Divide	126	(3)
8
Self-portrait Ending with a Found Poem from Life Histories of North American Birds	129	(3)
In a Landfill	132	(1)
Standing Above the Fault Scarp	133	(1)
Turning Over an Old Leaf	134	(1)
At the Mirror	135	(1)
Instructions for Whistling in the Dark	136	(1)
Trying to Fall Asleep Beside an Iguana	137	(1)
Almost Waking Up in the Middle of the Night	138	(1)
Good Night	139	(1)
The Old Man of the Woods	140	(2)
At the Foot of a Mountain	142