History of the Invitation : New and Selected Poems : 1963-2000

by Towle, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781931236027
• ISBN10: 193123602X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr
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Summary

Poetry. The wit, power and elegance of Towle's poetry is brought together at last in one definitive volume. One of the clear, authentic voices of American poetry -- Kenneth Koch. Meditative, erudite, stunning with ease and quirky sanity...a phenomenal measure of a poet's nearly four decades -- Anne Waldman. Belongs in every library of poetry, possibly on its own shelf -- Billy Collins.

Table of Contents

1963-65
``A Note on the Early Poems of Tony Towle,''	15	(2)
Ron Padgett
Sequence 1963	17	(1)
Poem of August 1963	18	(1)
Poem (Awake . . . ) 1963	19	(1)
Prologue 1963	20	(1)
Pas de Deux 1963	21	(1)
Skylarks 1964	22	(1)
Lines for the New Year 1964-65	23	(14)
The Hotel 1964	37	(1)
Snow 1964	38	(1)
The Adventure 1964	39	(1)
We Plunged into the Western Hemisphere 1964	40	(1)
Cable and Telephone 1964	41	(1)
The Passion 1964	42	(1)
Poem (An engineer . . . ) 1965	43	(1)
The Review 1965	44	(5)
1965-69
``Tony Towle's New York Poems,''	49	(2)
Charles North
Today 1965	51	(1)
Poem (The sky is cut . . . ) 1965	52	(1)
Elegy 1965	53	(1)
Enchantment 1965	54	(2)
After Dinner We Take a Drive into the Night 1966	56	(1)
New York 1966	57	(1)
Poem (The last idiot elegy . . . ) 1966	58	(1)
Osiris 1966	59	(1)
The Allegorical Figure of Brooklyn 1966	60	(1)
Poem (Here we all are . . . ) 1966	61	(1)
Sunrise: Ode to Frank O'Hara 1966-67	62	(1)
North 1966-67	63	(1)
George Towle 1967	64	(1)
For Irma During April 1967	65	(1)
Macy's 1967	66	(1)
The Country Life 1967	67	(3)
Poem (The lead drains . . . ) 1967	70	(1)
Music 1967	71	(1)
Poem (In beautiful English . . . ) 1967	72	(1)
The City in the Throes of Despair 1967	73	(1)
Daybreak 1967-68	74	(1)
April 24th 1968	75	(1)
Notes on Velazquez 1968	76	(1)
Water Island July 25, 1968 1968	77	(1)
Poem (I am the friend . . . ) 1969	78	(1)
Ode 1968	79	(1)
Scenes from the Life of Christ 1969	80	(1)
Voice, 1968 1969	81	(1)
1970-79
``Tony Towle in the `70s,''	82	(7)
Paul Violi
The Morgan Library 1970	89	(1)
The New York Clouds 1970	90	(1)
The Works of Li Po 1970	91	(1)
Moral Courage 1970-71	92	(1)
Addenda 1971	93	(2)
The Sea and the Wind 1971	95	(2)
Swinburne: End of the Century 1972-73	97	(2)
Piece 1970-73	99	(1)
From Gongora 1972-73	100	(1)
The German Book of Verse 1971	101	(1)
The Despondent Woman 1970	102	(1)
Nearing Christmas 1971-72	103	(3)
On the Moon 1972-73	106	(3)
On His Name 1973	109	(1)
Vacations 1972	110	(3)
Autobiography 1970-73	113	(17)
A Note to Charles North 1973-74	130	(3)
For Rachel 1974-75	133	(1)
Renaissance Air 1975	134	(2)
A Toast from the Anglo-Saxon 1975	136	(1)
Starry Night 1975	137	(1)
``Quotes'' for Jimmy Schuyler 1974-75	138	(2)
The Temple of Fame: Synopsis for Paul Violi 1974-75	140	(2)
Works on Paper 1972-74	142	(12)
Rhapsodic Fragments in Islip 1976	154	(2)
Preface 1978	156	(1)
Long Island Pastoral 1976	157	(1)
The Plot 1977	158	(1)
Tomb 1977	159	(1)
Random (Re-arrangeable) Study for Views 1976	160	(2)
Social Poem 1978	162	(2)
Red Studio after Matisse 1978	164	(2)
Another Poem (New York Revisited) 1979	166	(2)
Epigraph 1977	168	(3)
1980-2000
``Tony Towle Up to Now,''	171	(4)
Jack Kimball
Garlic-Purple/Pink/Cobalt 1980	175	(1)
Victorian Observations 1981	176	(2)
Interior 1980	178	(1)
Illustrated Books 1980	179	(2)
Transcendent Report 1981	181	(1)
The Last of the Lake 1980	182	(1)
Notes for Poems 1981	183	(2)
July 6th 1983	185	(1)
Recapitulation 1982	186	(2)
Vase 1983	188	(1)
Variations for Jean on Gnothic Neophancy 1984-85	189	(2)
Typing Test (2 minutes) 1985-86	191	(1)
Dropping Names 1986	192	(1)
Mysteries 1986	193	(2)
Commentary 1988	195	(1)
Possibilities (Winter) 1988	196	(2)
Rhapsodic Reviews 1989-90	198	(3)
Another Zone (Prelude) 1989-90	201	(2)
Downtown Song 1992-93	203	(3)
New Ageless Fables 1995	206	(1)
Thoughts at Frank O'Hara's City Poet Party, 6/9/93 1993	207	(2)
Storytelling 1992-93	209	(8)
(April) 1994	217	(1)
Scenario 1995	218	(1)
The Art of War 1994	219	(1)
Red Pens 1994-95	220	(1)
Morning (Murray Hill) 1995	221	(1)
Seasonal Ramble 1995	222	(3)
Notions 1994-95	225	(1)
Sonnet (More Tennis) 1996-97	226	(1)
Postmodern Maturity 1992-95	227	(5)
Funny Business (Around Town) 1997-98	232	(2)
McGovern's Sea Chantey (after Melville) 1996-97	234	(1)
Telecommunications 1990	235	(1)
Holiday Depression 1991	236	(3)
Astrology 1993	239	(1)
Aubade 1998-99	240	(1)
Libretti 1996	241	(3)
Municipal Cartography 1997-98	244	(1)
Aus einem April 1997-98	245	(1)
Vista 1999-2000	246	(2)
Timeline 2000	248	(1)
Mini-Jeremiad for the Year 2000 1999-2000	249	(1)
Fugitive Visions 1996-98	250