Other Land Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience

by Lloyd, David

• ISBN13: 9781905762224
• ISBN10: 1905762224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Parthian Books

Summary

Poetry dealing with the 'matter of Wales' and the 'matter' of being Welsh-American, developed through divergent poetics and perspectives; as attuned to degrees of difference as those of connectedness.

Author Biography

David Lloyd is professor of English at Le Moyne College and a poet who has received the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and a Distinguished Scholar Fulbright Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
William Greenway
Otherworld	p. 3
Pit Pony	p. 4
Welsh Courier Braves Daylight	p. 6
Worm's Head	p. 8
Halloween in Wales	p. 10
At Arthur's Stone	p. 12
Llyn y Fan Fach	p. 14
The Train to Neath	p. 16
Power in the Blood	p. 18
Fancy View	p. 20
Footpaths	p. 22
Jon Dressel
The Holy Well	p. 27
Synopsis of the Great Yanklo-Welsh Novel	p. 29
Why I Live in Lansteffan	p. 31
A Bedtime Story	p. 33
Note from a Soldier	p. 35
Two Hoots for a Huntress	p. 40
Dai, Live	p. 45
Note to a Character	p. 47
Dai on Holiday	p. 48
Children, Night, Lansteffan	p. 49
Denise Levertov
The Sea Inland	p. 53
An Arrival (North Wales, 1897)	p. 54
The Vron Woods (North Wales)	p. 56
Inheritance	p. 57
Nightingale Road	p. 58
David Lloyd
Bedtime Stories	p. 63
The First House I Knew	p. 65
The Second House I Knew	p. 67
London, 1962	p. 69
Once Again in Remsen, NY	p. 71
Two poems from Father and Son
The Past	p. 72
Deity	p. 73
Four poems from The Gospel According to Frank
This Way	p. 74
The House that Frank Built	p. 76
Unleashed	p. 78
Uncreation	p. 79
Sarah Kennedy
Maps from The Universal Magazine	p. 83
Illumination: Mary Perason's Recipe Book, 1755	p. 85
Louisa Morgan's Inheritance, 1793	p. 87
Coffin, 1749	p. 91
From The Farm Accounts of Mrs. C. Jones	p. 94
Elizabeth Slougher's Heart	p. 95
Mary Owen: Home Remedies, 1712	p. 97
William Virgil Davis
Landscape	p. 101
First Light	p. 102
Pilgrimage	p. 103
Living Away	p. 104
A Far Field	p. 106
A Visit to the Sea	p. 107
Days	p. 108
Driving Through Wales	p. 109
Standing Lookout Above Graves End	p. 110
Margot Farrington
Work	p. 113
For Sale	p. 115
The Lark	p. 116
Crosscuts: St. Teilo	p. 118
Selkie	p. 120
Joseph Clancy
The Visitors	p. 125
The Graves	p. 126
At Sunset	p. 128
Museum Piece	p. 130
Tourists	p. 132
Margaret Lloyd
They are not here but I think of them here	p. 135
Near the Shore	p. 137
The Organ Player	p. 138
Line of Yellow	p. 139
Law and Grace	p. 140
What She Knows	p. 141
Cardigan Bay	p. 142
Six poems from A Moment in the Field: Voices from Arthurian Legend
Merlin Speaks of Nineve	p. 143
She Speaks of Merlin	p. 144
Merlin Imprisoned in the Cave	p. 145
Morgan Heading Toward Trouble	p. 147
Guinevere Lies with Arthur	p. 148
Arthur's Hands	p. 149
Anne Stevenson
A Present	p. 153
Binoculars in Ardudwy	p. 155
May Bluebells, Coed Aber Artro	p. 157
From Green Mountain, Black Mountain	p. 158
Without Me	p. 160
Notes	p. 161
Acknowledgements	p. 167
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