Rusty Needle

by Jones, Francis R; Lalic, Ivan V

• ISBN13: 9780856462412
• ISBN10: 0856462411
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Born in 1955, Francis R. Jones lectures in linguistics at the University of Newcastle in England.

Author Biography

Born in 1955, Francis R. Jones lectures in linguistics at the University of Newcastle in England. Born in 1931, Lalic studied law in Zagreb, where he first began to publish poetry. He died in 1996.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Names as a Bribe to Time: The Poetry of Ivan V. Lalic	p. 13
A Rusty Needle	p. 29
How Orpheus Sang	p. 30
Stranger	p. 31
Ophelia	p. 32
Wind	p. 33
Prayer	p. 34
Requiem for a Mother	p. 34
A Voice Singing in Gardens	p. 36
This Great Big Moon	p. 37
Rider	p. 37
Four Epitaphs	p. 38
The Home of the Swans	p. 39
from Orpheus on Deck: Summer	p. 40
from Orpheus on Deck: Of Eurydice	p. 41
from Orpheus on Deck: Song for the Dead	p. 42
Wick	p. 43
Fresco	p. 47
Byzantium	p. 48
Smederevo	p. 50
Letter from the Knight Sinadin	p. 51
Death with a Falcon	p. 52
The Danube by Smederevo	p. 53
Resava	p. 54
1804	p. 55
Princip on the Battlefield	p. 56
Requiem	p. 57
Chamber Poem for a City	p. 59
1 Bees	p. 63
2 The Secret of the Loaves	p. 63
3 Star	p. 64
4 North Wind	p. 64
5 Horse	p. 65
6 Wall	p. 65
7 Recognition	p. 66
8 Face	p. 66
9 Man	p. 67
10 Waking	p. 67
14 South	p. 68
15 Summer	p. 68
16 Voices of the Dead I	p. 69
17 Voices of the Dead II	p. 69
18 Voices of the Dead III	p. 70
19 Voices of the Dead IV	p. 70
20 Morning	p. 71
21 Slavery	p. 71
22 Questions	p. 72
25 An Everyday Sorcerer	p. 72
28 Solemn Words	p. 73
29 The Loveliest Bird	p. 73
30 Rose/Torch	p. 74
31 The Flower of Beginning	p. 74
Four Psalms	p. 77
Love	p. 79
Wind	p. 80
Bird	p. 81
Places We Love	p. 82
Love in July	p. 83
Winter Letter	p. 84
Rain After Us	p. 85
The Argonauts	p. 89
Marine	p. 90
September	p. 90
Birth	p. 91
Tyrrhenian Sea	p. 92
Inventory of Moonlight	p. 93
A Perfect Autumn	p. 94
Roman Quartet	p. 95
The Sea After Rain	p. 99
Prolegomena to Waking: Shores	p. 101
Algol	p. 109
Snowy Night	p. 112
March	p. 113
Spring Liturgy for a Dead Poet	p. 114
The Singer and the King	p. 116
Young Woman from Pompeii	p. 117
Marine II	p. 118
Belgrade Airport, June	p. 119
Orpheus' Second Descent	p. 119
Nereid	p. 121
Kalemegdan	p. 127
A Bitter Summer's Fires Still Wheel	p. 137
Cypress in Pocitelj	p. 138
Plateau	p. 139
Lyric	p. 140
Report on Icarus	p. 140
The Guard in Colchis	p. 141
Odysseus Among the Phaeacians	p. 142
To Elpenor	p. 143
Ocean	p. 143
Joanna from Ravenna_n	p. 144
Wanderer's Night Song	p. 146
Holy Fool	p. 146
Abraham to Himself	p. 148
The Dark Province	p. 148
Of the Builders	p. 149
Traveller Before Dubrovnik, January	p. 153
The Scribe	p. 153
Voices-Finis Reipublicae	p. 154
Argosy	p. 155
Onofrio	p. 155
Saint Blaise	p. 156
The Masons	p. 157
The Ramparts of Dubrovnik	p. 157
Portal: Pieta	p. 159
Pustijerna	p. 160
Ahasuerus in Dubrovnik	p. 161
Homage to Dubrovnik	p. 162
Lament of the Chronicler	p. 165
Evening on the Ramparts	p. 165
Stylite	p. 166
De Administrando Imperio	p. 167
Byzantium II	p. 167
Of the Works of Love	p. 169
Memory of an Orchard	p. 169
'Then you may have said...'	p. 170
Three Verses	p. 170
Byzantium III	p. 171
Word of the Warrior on the Battlements	p. 172
Cistern	p. 172
Song of the Statue in the Earth	p. 173
Autumn	p. 173
Byzantium IV	p. 174
The Masons of Babel	p. 175
Jacob's Stone	p. 175
Orpheus on the Ramparts	p. 176
Dark Heraclitus	p. 177
Byzantium V	p. 177
Homeland	p. 178
The Sea Described from Memory	p. 179
Raska	p. 180
Catena Mundi	p. 180
Byzantium VI	p. 181
Inscription on a Fountain_n	p. 182
In the Presence of the Dead	p. 182
Travellers in Winter	p. 183
Written in the Silver of the Sea	p. 184
Byzantium VII	p. 185
Translator's Notes	p. 187
Index of Titles	p. 195
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