The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis

by Lewis, Janet; Barth, R. L.; Barth, R. L.

• ISBN13: 9780804010238
• ISBN10: 0804010234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Summary

Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors.

Critics as disparate as Kenneth Rexroth, Timothy Steele, Theodore Roethke, Larry McMurtry, N. Scott Momaday, and Dana Gioia have sung the praises of her work over the decades. Her career as a poet was remarkable not only for its longevity but also for the fact that even well into her tenth decade she wrote poems that stand with her very best work.

Characterized by the vigor and sharpness of her images and the understated lyricism that permeates her rhythmic lines. The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis is a survey of modern poetry unto itself.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xix
1918---1927
The Indians in the Woods	3	(1)
The Wife of Manibozho Sings	4	(1)
The Grandmother Remembers	5	(1)
Nightfall among Poplars	6	(1)
Manibush and the Grandmother	7	(1)
He Goes Away Again	8	(1)
Like Summer Hay	9	(1)
Anishinabeg in the Cranberry Swamp	10	(1)
Ojibway Village	11	(1)
The Rocky Islands	12	(1)
The Threshing Wind	13	(1)
October Morning	14	(1)
Fossil, 1919	15	(1)
For Carl Rippin	16	(1)
Lullaby, Sunmount	17	(1)
Days	18	(1)
Ulysses in the Land of the Phaeacians	19	(1)
Lost Garden	20	(1)
Girl Help	21	(1)
The Reader	22	(1)
The Manger	23	(1)
The Tennis Players	24	(1)
Remembered Morning	25	(1)
The Candle Flame	26	(1)
The Earth-Bound	27	(1)
Meadow Turf	28	(1)
Love Poem	29	(1)
During Illness	30	(1)
May in the Desert	31	(4)
1927---1930
Time and Music	35	(1)
Country Burial	36	(1)
Hymns by Firelight	37	(1)
Lines to a Kitten	38	(1)
Baby Goat	39	(4)
1930---1944
The Clock	43	(2)
To a Young Husband	45	(1)
Morning Devotion	46	(1)
Child in a Garden (III)	47	(1)
For Margaret Hamilton	48	(2)
Lines with a Gift of Herbs	50	(1)
Carmel Highlands	51	(1)
A Farewell	52	(1)
Music at a Concert	53	(1)
The Hangar at Sunnyvale: 1937	54	(2)
A Lullaby	56	(1)
For Elizabeth Madox Roberts	57	(1)
To the Poet, Clayton Stafford, for His Verse	58	(1)
``Rosemary, bay and redwood spray''	59	(1)
In the Egyptian Museum	60	(2)
Winter Garden	62	(1)
Old Love	63	(1)
Helen Grown Old	64	(3)
1971---1978
For the Father of Sandro Gulotta	67	(1)
For Louise Chenery	68	(1)
For John Muir, a Century and More after His Time	69	(2)
Fossil, 1975	71	(1)
Kayenta, Arizona, May 1977	72	(1)
The Ancient Ones: Betatakin	73	(2)
The Chord	75	(1)
Snail Garden	76	(2)
In a Convalescent Hospital	78	(2)
Melissa's Bouquet	80	(1)
Travel Note	81	(4)
1979---1994
Lenore's Bear	85	(1)
Garden Note: Los Altos, November	86	(1)
For the Potter	87	(1)
For Clara Atkins on Her 91st Birthday	88	(1)
Rose	89	(1)
Elegy for Two Friends	90	(1)
Early Morning	91	(1)
The Locket	92	(2)
Trophy, W.W.I	94	(2)
Forsan et haec	96	(2)
Calendar	98	(1)
The Rivals	99	(1)
The Dear Past	100	(1)
Non Omnis Moriar	101	(1)
Out of a Dark Wood	102	(1)
Building the Cabin, Everens Point	103	(1)
Dios No Se Muda	104	(1)
A Cautionary Note	105	(1)
For Lucy	106	(1)
River	107	(2)
Bibliography of Janet Lewis's Books of Poetry	109	(2)
Notes	111	(10)
Index of Titles and First Lines	121