A New Pleiade: Selected Poems

by Seven, American Poets

• ISBN13: 9780807123300
• ISBN10: 0807123307
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Table of Contents

The Garden	p. 3
The Fields	p. 3
Grace before Meat	p. 6
Another	p. 6
How the Job Gets Done	p. 7
In the Garden	p. 7
I Love You	p. 7
Transmogrification of the Diva	p. 8
Dipperful	p. 8
The Reader	p. 10
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet	p. 11
Third Base Coach	p. 16
Strike Zone	p. 16
Some of It	p. 17
Narcissus and Echo	p. 18
The Story	p. 18
Upon an Amorous Old Couple	p. 19
Wedding Anniversary	p. 19
The Epigrammatist	p. 20
The Ubi Sunt Lament of the Beldame Hen	p. 20
Humility	p. 23
Forever Mountain	p. 24
My Grandmother Washes Her Vessels	p. 25
Hallowind	p. 28
After Catullus I	p. 37
A Bird's-Eye View of Einstein	p. 37
Ithaca	p. 47
History	p. 47
Lines Written on the Eve of a Birthday	p. 48
Memory	p. 48
A Song	p. 49
Blue Air	p. 50
Reading, Dreaming, Hiding	p. 50
Late Afternoon at the Arboretum	p. 51
And There Is Freedom of a Kind Even in Mere Magnitude	p. 52
Grammaire Generale: A Review	p. 52
The Pines Without Peer	p. 54
I Will Cut Out My Heart	p. 55
Lady Macbeth on the Psych Ward	p. 55
Adult Ed. 101: Basic Home Repair for Single Women	p. 56
She Remembers the Tears	p. 58
A Scientific Expedition in Siberia, 1913	p. 58
The Rose	p. 62
After Catullus 85	p. 63
Love	p. 63
Work	p. 64
Golgotha	p. 65
And Then	p. 66
Why Were the Bandit's Eyes Hidden behind a Green Mask?	p. 69
On Mynydd Hiraethog: Afternoon	p. 69
Meditation for a Pickle Suite	p. 70
Construction	p. 71
March Again	p. 72
Gettysburg	p. 73
Talking to Trees	p. 75
What to Do (When You Want to Say So Much and You Do Not Know How)	p. 76
The Greeting	p. 82
21. Montage: His Prayer (from January: A Screenplay)	p. 83
Tips for a Traveller	p. 84
A Dream of Uncles	p. 85
Autumn Letter to London	p. 87
Winter Letter to Bluefield	p. 91
Spring Letter to Paradise	p. 96
Listening to the Edges	p. 99
Pondycherry	p. 103
Skylights	p. 104
For a Daughter Gone Away	p. 105
Some Entertainments Sent with a Gift Snuffbox Carved from an Alligator's Tooth, 1703	p. 106
My Frost Dream	p. 108
The Portuguese Uncle	p. 109
Captain Teabag and the Wellfleet Witches	p. 110
At Ellen Doyle's Brook	p. 114
Pelican	p. 115
Corncrake	p. 116
Saint Brendan's Psalm (from Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boat)	p. 117
Nimblejacks	p. 119
Getting Through	p. 120
Snakebit, 1752	p. 121
Under My Stornoway Hat	p. 124
The Maiden Uncles	p. 125
An American Naturalist Writes to a Londoner, 1758	p. 127
Walter Anderson Sleeping on the Levee	p. 129
Letter Accompanying the Specimen of an Amazing Bird, 1763	p. 130
A Cold Bell Ringing in the East	p. 133
Luck's Shining Child	p. 137
Abraham's Knife	p. 138
Revival	p. 139
Solitaire	p. 140
For a Bitter Season	p. 141
Italian Lesson (from "Some Snapshots")	p. 142
Crows at Paestum	p. 142
Egyptian Gold	p. 143
Buzzard	p. 146
For Tiresias (from "Eight Lyrics")	p. 146
Or Death and December	p. 147
Romantic	p. 148
Fat Man	p. 148
Envoy	p. 149
An Epigram by Martial (from "Three More Short Ones")	p. 150
Manifesto	p. 151
Wonderful Pen: A Snapshot	p. 153
Little Movie without a Middle	p. 154
To a Certain Critic (from "Flashcards")	p. 155
Two Elegies	p. 155
March 1994	p. 158
Figure of Speech	p. 159
A Latin Epigram by Thomas More	p. 160
Some Enormous Surprises	p. 160
Anthologies I (Then and There)	p. 161
Anthologies II (Here and Now)	p. 163
Ride the High Country	p. 167
Epitaph for Goliath	p. 168
Elegy for Walter Stone	p. 168
Sestina for the Last Week of March	p. 172
Le Babouinisme	p. 173
Night Creatures	p. 174
Nursery Rime	p. 174
The Death of Mozart	p. 175
Homage to Luigi Boccherini	p. 176
The Calf and the Ox	p. 177
Numbers 52, 83, and 142 (from Dozens)	p. 178
The Elm	p. 179
Titanic	p. 180
Bloody Murder	p. 181
Plodders	p. 182
Forio	p. 183
History of My Ear	p. 184
Crossroads	p. 187
The Gig	p. 189
Assume a God (from A Gift: The Life of da Ponte)	p. 191
Psalm 34	p. 192
Worry Beads (from "Desk Set")	p. 193
The Second Murderer	p. 194
The Horse Show at Midnight	p. 199
Breakings	p. 202
An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards	p. 202
Buildings and Grounds	p. 206
De Gustibus Ain't What Dey Used to Be	p. 208
To Hear My Head Roar	p. 209
Riding a One-Eyed Horse	p. 211
Landscape with Tractor	p. 212
Taking to the Woods	p. 214
Airing Linen	p. 217
Barbed Wire	p. 217
The Flying Change	p. 218
Hawk	p. 219
At the Swings	p. 219
A Grace	p. 221
Flying over Peoria	p. 222
Understanding Fiction	p. 223
A Voltage Spike	p. 225
After a Movie	p. 226
Night Search for Lost Dog	p. 227
Afternoons with a Boomerang	p. 228
Acknowledgments	p. 231
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