Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me

by PLUMLY STANLEY

• ISBN13: 9780060938055
• ISBN10: 0060938056
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-06
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Thirty years of visionary verse from one of America's most memorable lyric poets.From the pastoral to the familial, from the mundane to the transcendent, "Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 is a musical, multifaceted, and deeply moving series of poems, presenting a panoramic view of Plumly's three decades of poetic inquiry.

Author Biography

Stanley Plumly's work has been honored with the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award and nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Maryland

Table of Contents

Grievers	1	(2)
Naps	2	(2)
Piano	4	(2)
November 11, 1942-November 12, 1997	6	(2)
Turn, Counterturn, Stand	8	(2)
Kunitz Tending Roses	10	(2)
In the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague	12	(1)
Comment on Thom Gunn's ``In Santa Maria Del Popolo'' Concerning Caravaggio's The Conversion of St. Paul	13	(2)
Strays	15	(2)
Wight	17	(1)
Movie	18	(1)
Cheer	19	(2)
Catbird Beginning with a Cardinal	21	(2)
Cardinal	23	(2)
Sickle	25	(1)
Woman on Twenty-Second Eating Berries	26	(1)
Reading with the Poets	27	(2)
Will Work for Food	29	(2)
Snipers	31	(2)
Souls of Suicides as Birds	33	(2)
Conan Doyle's Copper Beeches	35	(2)
Humility Elm	37	(2)
For My Father, Dead at Fifty-six, on My Fifty-sixth Birthday	39	(1)
Dove	40	(1)
Dwarf with Violin, Government Center Station	41	(1)
Alms	42	(2)
Keats in Burns Country	44	(2)
Shadower	46	(1)
Panegyric for Gee	47	(2)
One-Legged Wooden Redwing	49	(2)
The Art of Poetry	51	(3)
Doves in January	54	(1)
In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel	55	(1)
Lazarus at Dawn	56	(2)
The Last Parent	58	(1)
Drunks	59	(3)
The Marriage in the Trees	62	(1)
Nobody Sleeps	63	(2)
Cardinals in a Shower at Union Square	65	(2)
Detail Waiting for a Train	67	(1)
Field	68	(1)
Farragut North	69	(1)
Complaint Against the Arsonist	70	(2)
William Matthews's Armistice Poppies	72	(2)
Constable's Clouds for Keats	74	(2)
Hedgerows	76	(2)
Analogies of the Leaf	78	(2)
Against Starlings	80	(3)
Cedar Waxwing on Scarlet Firethorn	83	(2)
The Wyoming Poetry Circuit	85	(3)
Toward Umbria	88	(2)
Birthday	90	(1)
Cloud Building	91	(2)
Infidelity	93	(1)
Above Barnesville	94	(4)
Pityriasis Rosacea	98	(1)
The Foundry Garden	99	(2)
Men Working on Wings	101	(2)
Fountain Park	103	(1)
With Stephen in Maine	104	(1)
Four Appaloosas	105	(1)
Early and Late in the Month	106	(2)
The James Wright Annual Festival	108	(2)
Coming into La Guardia Late at Night	110	(1)
Boy on the Step	111	(7)
Tree Ferns	118	(1)
After Whistler	119	(2)
Wildflower	121	(2)
In Passing	123	(2)
Posthumous Keats	125	(2)
Promising the Air	127	(1)
My Mother's Feet	128	(1)
Sonnet	129	(1)
Summer Celestial	130	(2)
Fifth and 94th	132	(1)
Blossom	133	(2)
For Judith on Valentine's Day	135	(3)
American Ash	138	(2)
Another November	140	(1)
The Iron Lung	141	(2)
Rainbow	143	(1)
Say Summer/For My Mother	144	(1)
Peppergrass	145	(1)
For Esther	146	(5)
Wrong Side of the River	151	(1)
Out-of-the-Body Travel	152	(1)
Giraffe	153	(2)
Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me	155