New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska

by Zaturenska, Marya; Phillips, Robert S.; Phillips, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9780815607175
• ISBN10: 0815607172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Comprises 115 poems and twenty translations drawn from eight previous books, including early unpublished poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Early and Uncollected Poems, 1920-1933
Spinners
She Longs for the Country	3	(1)
The Spinners of Willowsleigh	3	(1)
Song of a Factory Girl	4	(1)
A Song for Vanished Beauty	5	(1)
An Old Tale	5	(1)
Memories	6	(1)
Fulfillment	7	(1)
The Girl Takes Her Place Among the Mothers	7	(1)
They Pass
Clock-Beat, Heart-Beat	8	(1)
Symbols	8	(1)
Oath on an Altar	9	(1)
The Empress Marie Louise	10	(1)
Places	10	(5)
From Threshold and Hearth, 1934
Pilgrimage	15	(1)
Strange Captivity	15	(1)
Reflections on a Centaur	16	(1)
For the Seasons	17	(1)
O Lyric March	18	(1)
Chorale for Autumn	18	(1)
The Quiet House	19	(1)
The Narrow Hemisphere	20	(1)
Soul's Haven	20	(1)
Daphne	21	(1)
The Dark Year	21	(1)
Image of a Friend	22	(1)
The Uninvited Guest	23	(4)
From Cold Morning Sky, 1938
The Virgin, the Doe and the Leper	27	(1)
Lullaby	28	(1)
Spring Morning	29	(1)
The Lunar Tides	30	(2)
The Daisy	32	(1)
Cold Morning Sky	32	(1)
Dialogue	33	(2)
The Island	35	(1)
Voyage	36	(1)
The Emigres	37	(1)
The Dream	38	(1)
Death Is the Serpent	39	(1)
Afternoon of a Doll	39	(1)
Girl and Scarecrow	40	(1)
The Runaway	41	(4)
From The Listening Landscape, 1941
The White Dress	45	(1)
Quiet Countries: The World of Hans Christian Andersen	46	(1)
Child in the Crystal	47	(1)
Forest of Arden	48	(1)
Interview in Midsummer	49	(2)
The Seance	51	(1)
Snowstorm in January	52	(1)
The Casket of Pandora	53	(1)
The Head of Medusa	54	(1)
Background with Harpsichord	55	(1)
The Familiar	56	(1)
The Interpreter of Silence	57	(1)
Silence and the Wayfarer	58	(1)
The Listening Landscape	59	(1)
The Unsepulchered, 1914-1918	60	(2)
Leaves from the Book of Dorothy Wordsworth
First Memories	62	(1)
The Soul's Journey	63	(1)
Footprints of the Invisible	64	(1)
Procession of the Seasons	64	(1)
Coleridge	64	(1)
Shadows of the End	65	(1)
Bells of Vision	66	(1)
Finale	67	(4)
From The Golden Mirror, 1944
The Castaways	71	(1)
Future in Miniature	72	(1)
Woman at the Piano	73	(1)
Variations on a Theme by George Herbert	73	(1)
The Old House	74	(1)
The Winter Rose	75	(1)
Epitaph for a Careless Beauty	76	(1)
Dream Message	77	(1)
For a Child	78	(1)
``All Is Well with the Child''	79	(1)
The Blue Flower	79	(1)
Luna and Leopardi	80	(2)
The Afflictions of William Cowper	82	(2)
The Golden Mirror	84	(1)
The Imperfect	85	(4)
From Selected Poems, 1954
May Morning: Hudson Pastoral	89	(1)
A Friend's Song	90	(1)
The Mirrored Room	91	(1)
Siren Music	92	(1)
Song of the Forsaken Lilac Tree	92	(1)
The Twisted Tree	93	(4)
From Terraces of Light, 1960
Girl in a Library	97	(1)
The Snowy Woods	97	(1)
Variation on a Polish Folk Song	98	(2)
Four Ghosts	100	(1)
Late Arrival	100	(1)
Elegy and Nocturne for Lora Baxter	101	(1)
Song	102	(1)
Song for a Season	103	(1)
Voices in Air	104	(1)
Virgin with a Lamp	104	(1)
The Question	105	(1)
From ``The Fountains of Rome''	106	(1)
Hymn to Artemis, the Destroyer	106	(1)
From a Winter Journal	107	(1)
A Theme from Louise Labe	108	(1)
Terraces of Light	108	(2)
The Flowing of the River	110	(1)
The Garden at Cliveden	111	(1)
Cascades and Fountains	112	(3)
From Collected Poems, 1965
Spellbound	115	(1)
The World of the Salamanders	116	(1)
Metaphysics of the Night	116	(1)
Chorale for the Seasons	117	(1)
Homage to Christina Rossetti	118	(5)
From The Hidden Waterfall, 1974
A Shakespearean Cycle
Prospero's Soliloquy	123	(1)
Perdita's Song	124	(1)
Cordelia's Song	125	(1)
Mariana's Song	126	(1)
Ophelia's Song	127	(1)
Miranda's Song	128	(1)
A Young Girl Singing	129	(1)
Water Lilies: A Nocturne	129	(1)
The Young Dancers	130	(1)
O Like a Young Tree	131	(1)
Another Snowstorm	132	(1)
I Know an Island	133	(1)
Lament of Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII	134	(1)
From ``The Madness of Jean Jacques Rousseau''	134	(2)
The Invaders	136	(1)
Bird and the Muse	137	(2)
Once in an Ancient Book	139	(4)
Translations, 1960-1974
From the Italian of Claudio Achillini	143	(1)
From the Italian of Cardinal Pietro Bembo	143	(1)
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti	144	(1)
From the Italian of Lorenzo de'Medici (I)	145	(1)
From the Italian of Lorenzo de'Medici (II)	145	(1)
From the Italian of Vincenzo Monti	146	(1)
From the Italian of Gaspara Stampa (I)	147	(1)
From the Italian of Gaspara Stampa (II)	147	(1)
From the Italian of Torquato Tasso	148	(1)
Nine Variations on Themes from Petrarch	149	(6)
Two Adaptations from Frederich Holderlin	155	(4)
Works	159	(2)
Marya Zaturenska
Index of Titles and First Lines	161