Models of the Universe

by Friebert, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780932440693
• ISBN10: 093244069X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Oberlin College Pr

Summary

Here at last is a comprehensive anthology of one of the world's most fascinating literary hybrids. Drawing both on the prose poem's chronological development and on its polylingual and multicultural manifestations, this collection will give pleasure and

Table of Contents

Introduction	17	(4)
Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841)	21	(5)
The Five Fingers of the Hand
Moonlight
Lepers
The Tulip Merchant
The Mason
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)	26	(3)
The Sphinx
The Skulls
The Insect
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)	29	(3)
Get High
The Soup and the Clouds
The Clock
A Joker
Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)	32	(2)
The Pipe
Autumn Lament
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)	34	(4)
Bad Blood
Common Nocturne
Bottom
Cities
Ruts
Royalty
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)	38	(3)
Milk
Apple
A Frightful Release
Pink
Key to Closet
A Cousin
Longer
Beside
Had a Horse
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)	41	(2)
Song of the Soul of Chicago
Leon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947)	43	(2)
In Yellow Towns . . .
The Boulevard . . .
Max Jacob (1876-1944)	45	(2)
In the Hill Country
The Beggar Woman of Naples
The Wallpaper of Mr. R. K.
Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957)	47	(2)
The Mouse
Without Heat
Eaten by the Wolf
Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)	49	(2)
Poe's House
The Moon
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)	51	(1)
The Sirens
Robinson Crusoe
Leopards in the Temple
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)	52	(1)
Two Selections From Kora in Hell
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1884-1961)	53	(3)
Strophe
Antistrophe
Epode
Dino Campana (1885-1932)	56	(3)
Florence
Faenza
Toscanita
Hans Arp (1887-1966)	59	(3)
Monomaniacal Possessor of the Firmament
Around the Star's Throne
A Domesticated Egg
The Dragon Carries the Inscription ``Kunigundula'' and is Led on a Leash
The Cities have been Cut Off at the Feet
For That Reason we are Also not Obliged to Polish the Claws, Horns, and Weather Vanes
Snakebread
Georg Trakl (1887-1914)	62	(1)
A Winter Night
From Revelation and Defeat
Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960)	63	(2)
Behind Eyelids
Nocturne
Internal Travels
The Spirit Escapes
Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938)	65	(2)
The Right Meaning
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)	67	(1)
Nora
Eugenio Montale (1896-1982)	68	(3)
Where the Tennis Court Was
Visit to Fadin
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)	71	(1)
Sentences
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)	72	(2)
Toenails
The Witness
Borges and I
Henri Michaux (1899-1984)	74	(3)
The Jetty
``I am Writing to you from a Far-Off Country'' (1, 2, 7, 11, 12)
Francis Ponge (1899-1988)	77	(5)
The Sage's Family
The Last Simplicity
The Candle
The Crate
Rain
The Boat
The Pleasures of the Door
George Seferis (1900-1971)	82	(3)
``Its Time for Me to Go''
Nijinski
Kay Boyle (1902-1993)	85	(1)
Summer
Jean Follain (1903-1971)	86	(6)
Shops
First Grade
The Marshmallow Man
``This Plant, So Exceptional . . .''
``Should The Schoolboy Pull . . .''
``She Stops Short . . .''
``One Day I Suddenly Notice . . .''
``The Landscapes They Walk Through . . .''
``The Women Say: `It Looks Like Rain' . . .''
Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993)	92	(1)
Report on Heaven and Hell
Harry Martinson (1904-)	93	(1)
``The Makers of Perpetuum Mobile . . .''
``Once I Came to Paradise . . .''
Attila Jozsef (1905-1937)	94	(2)
Attila Jozsef
The Dog
Daniel Kharms (1905-1942)	96	(2)
The Beginnings of a Beautiful Day
An Optical Illusion
Incidents
Gilberto Owen (1905-1952)	98	(1)
Interior
Rene Char (1907-1988)	99	(3)
Dyne
At the Gates of Aerea
The Tree Frog
The Dowry of Maubergeonne
Faction Du Muet
Alberto Giacometti
Gunter Eich (1907-1972)	102	(5)
Lauras
The Huge Person
Viareggio
Marketplace
Salt
Rene Daumal (1908-1944)	107	(2)
Jesus Before Pilate
Poetry and Thought
Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990)	109	(2)
Evening Walk
One Skit, Then Another
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)	111	(2)
Strayed Crab
Giant Snail
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-)	113	(2)
Esse
A Poetic State
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)	115	(1)
The Great Sled-Makers
Abraham Sutzkever (1913-)	116	(6)
Between Chimneys
The Death of an Ox
The Peasant Who Saw God
Honey of a Wild Bee
Julio Cortazar (1914-1984)	122	(7)
Instructions on How to Cry
The Lines of the Hand
The Loss and Recovery of the Hair
Clocks
Travel
Therapies
William Stafford (1914-1993)	129	(1)
The Right Time
Juan Jose Arreola (1918-)	130	(1)
The Toad
Deer
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliunas (1919-)	131	(1)
Winter Landscape
Ilse Aichinger (1921-)	132	(2)
Hemlin
H. C. Artmann (1921-)	134	(2)
The Blacksmith's Shop
The Tea Merchant
Agnes Nemes Nagy (1922-1992)	136	(10)
The Proportions of the Street
The Earth Remembers
A Walk at the Museum
Terraced Landscape
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)	146	(6)
Argia
Eudoxia
Octavia
Armilla
Fedora
Zirma
Miroslav Holub (1923-)	152	(6)
A Special Performance for Statues
Teeth
A Brief Reflection on Brief Reflections
Meeting Ezra Pound
Teaching About Diseases
The Funeral
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-)	158	(2)
Words
Prologue to a Comedy
Zbgniew Herbert (1924-)	160	(2)
Armchairs
The Hygiene of the Soul
A Devil
The Emperor's Dream
What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell
Jaime Sabines (1925-)	162	(2)
Adam and Eve (1, 4, 13)
Robert Bly (1926-)	164	(3)
A Potato
Visiting Emily Dickinson's Grave with Robert Francis
August Rain
A Turtle
Allen Ginsberg (1926-)	167	(2)
The Bricklayer's Lunch Hour
A Supermarket in California
Blanca Varela (1926-)	169	(1)
Madonna
John Ashbery (1927-)	170	(2)
For John Clare
Jacques Dupin (1927-)	172	(1)
``I am Forbidden . . .''
``Let Us Salute . . .''
W. S. Merwin (1927-)	173	(9)
The Broken
Postcards from the Maginot Line
Spiders I Have Known
The Weight of Sleep
Hope for Her
The Dachau Shoe
The Good-Bye Shirts
James Wright (1927-1980)	182	(5)
Regret for a Spider Web
The Sumac in Ohio
Honey
Against Surrealism
Old Bud
Philip Levine (1928-)	187	(1)
Travelling Music
Dan Pagis (1930-1986)	188	(5)
Homily
The Souvenir
Devotion
Sominex
The Art of Reduction
Erica Pedretti (1930-)	193	(5)
What Difference Does it Make
No, That Can't Be
``Dogs are Supposed . . .''
Here
``It's Snowing in Plouda''
Heimgarten
Gary Snyder (1930-)	198	(1)
The Ship in Yokohama
Tomas Transtromer (1931-)	199	(4)
At Funchal
For Mats and Laila
Start of a Late Autumn Novel
The Clearing
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca (1932-)	203	(1)
The Hands
A Fusion of Shadows
Otto Orban (1932-)	204	(2)
A Blade of Grass
Chile
The Letter
N. Scott Momaday (1934-)	206	(3)
The Colors of Night
Vern Rutsala (1934-)	209	(1)
Reunion: A Scenario
The House of Cards
Summer
Michael Benedikt (1935-)	210	(3)
The Moralist of Bananas
The Meat Epitaph
Editing the Gazette of the Infinite
Russell Edson (1935-)	213	(5)
The Canoeing
The Cottage in the Wood
The Wheelbarrow
The Wounded Breakfast
The Fall
The Windows of the Castle
Dr. Nigel Bruce Watson Counting
Stratis Haviaras (1935-)	218	(4)
Stone-Throw
Still Life
Easter Feast
Checkmark
Tree
Sarah Kirsch (1935-)	222	(1)
Mail
Thank-You Note
Helga M. Novak (1935-)	223	(1)
The Freezing Pan
Packing Herring
Charles Wright (1935-)	224	(3)
Aubade
The Poet Grows Older
The Voyage
Storm
David Young (1936-)	227	(7)
The Poem Against the Horizon
Four About Heavy Machinery
Four About Metaphysics
Four About Apples
Elke Erb (1938-)	234	(1)
In the Picture
Inedible
Charles Simic (1938-)	235	(2)
``My Mother was a Braid . . .''
``I was Stolen by the Gypsies''
``We were so Poor . . .''
``The Hundred-Year-Old China Doll's Head . . .''
``An Arctic Voyager . . .''
``A Much Dwindled, Starker Annotator . . .''
Margaret Atwood (1939-)	237	(5)
Making Poison
Autobiography
The Victory Burlesk
Fainting
Before the War
Jose Emilio Pacheco (1939-)	242	(2)
From Some Time to this Place
Jim Heynen (1940-)	244	(2)
The Boys Go to Ask a Neighbor for Some Apples
Bloating and Its Remedies
Robert Hass (1941-)	246	(1)
Churchyard
Roy Scheele (1942-)	247	(2)
Thistle
The Prose Poem
The Wake of Plenty
Peter Schjeldahl (1942-)	249	(2)
Dynamite
Talking to Arlene
Michael Brownstein (1943-)	251	(1)
Ninth Symphony
Sandra McPherson (1943-)	252	(2)
Morning Glory Pool
A Sock
Michael
Michael Ondaatje (1943-)	254	(4)
7 or 8 Things I know About Her - A Stolen Biography
Bessie Smith at Roy Thomson Hall
Michael Palmer (1943-)	258	(3)
The Flower of Capital
``A Word is Coming up on the Screen . . .''
James Tate (1943-)	261	(2)
``I Know Someone From Another World . . .''
``There's a Certain Point in Each Evening . . .''
Distance from Loved Ones
Steve Martin (1945-)	263	(2)
Demolition of the Catherdral at Chartres
Cows in Trouble
Carol Muske (1945-)	265	(1)
Dulce Lignum, Dulces Clavos
Ray Amorosi (1946-)	266	(1)
The Good Teacher
Thomas Lux (1946-)	267	(3)
The Fisherman's Pants
Ecstasy Notebook
Jamaica Kincaid (1949-)	270	(2)
The Letter from Home
David St. John (1949-)	272	(1)
Coffee
Bruce Weigl (1949-)	273	(1)
Hand to Hand
Convoy
Sailing to Bien Hoa
Carolyn Forche (1950-)	274	(1)
The Colonel
David Walker (1950-)	275	(3)
Home
Astronomy
Daylight
Mary Anne Cartelli (1952-)	278	(1)
Water
Rita Dove (1952-)	279	(1)
Quaker Oats
Carla Harryman (1952-)	280	(2)
The Master Mind
Privacy
Jayne Anne Phillips (1952-)	282	(2)
Pretty
Night in Gracie's Face
Killarney Clary (1953-)	284	(2)
``Lightning. And the Mile Between''
``Camellia, It's That Moist and Sensitive''
Franz Wright (1953-)	286	(2)
Brugge
The Brother
Knife
The Wedding
Patricia Ikeda (1954-)	288	(2)
Wood
Salt
Three Churches
Timothy Kelly (1954-)	290	(1)
Babe Ruth Pointing
Thylias Moss (1954-)	291	(2)
Goodness and the Salt of the Earth
An Anointing
Leslie Rondin (1954-)	293	(1)
Heraclitus
Anne Marie Macari (1955-)	294	(1)
Counting the Years
After the Rain
Burial Mound
Beth Tornes (1955-)	295	(1)
Sleep
Amy Gerstler (1956-)	296	(3)
Seesaw
The Unforseen
Slowly I Open My Eyes
Bitter Angel
Michael Chitwood (1958-)	299	(1)
Hard Surface Road
The Hardened Arm
Tom Andrews (1961-)	300	(3)
Cinema Verite: The Death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cinema Verite: William Makepeace Thackeray Follows His Bliss
Cinema Verite: Jacques Derrida and God's Tsimtsum
Notes on the Authors	303	(14)
Acknowledgments	317