Spring Garden : New and Selected Poems

by Chappell, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780807119495
• ISBN10: 0807119490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Summary

Spring Garden selects poems from six of Fred Chappell's previous collections and adds to them some thirty new ones.

Table of Contents

The General Prologue	p. 3
In the Garden	p. 9
Susan's Morning Dream of Her Garden	p. 11
The Garden	p. 14
Nettle	p. 15
Marigold	p. 15
Honeysuckle	p. 15
The Fields	p. 16
Patience	p. 19
Literature	p. 21
The Good Life	p. 25
Grace Before Meat	p. 27
How the Job Gets Done	p. 27
My Hand Placed on a Rubens Drawing	p. 28
The Good Life	p. 31
Rejoinder	p. 31
Dialogue of Naughty and Nice	p. 32
Voyagers	p. 33
The Virtues	p. 34
The Garden of Love	p. 37
The Fated Lovers: A Story	p. 40
Ave atque Vale	p. 47
In the Garden	p. 47
I Love You	p. 48
The Stories	p. 48
A Glorious Twilight	p. 49
Recovery of Sexual Desire After a Bad Cold	p. 50
Poems of Character	p. 53
Transmogrification of the Diva	p. 57
Dipperful	p. 58
Remodeling the Hermit's Cabin	p. 60
The Presences at Sunset	p. 63
The Widow	p. 64
The Voices	p. 64
The Reader	p. 65
An Old Mountain Woman Reading the Book of Job	p. 66
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet	p. 68
Overheard in the Tea Room	p. 72
Third Base Coach	p. 72
Fast Ball	p. 72
Junk Ball	p. 73
Spitballer	p. 74
Strike Zone	p. 74
Dr. Bones	p. 76
Tiger in the Field of Flame Grass	p. 78
Latencies	p. 79
Some of It	p. 80
Score	p. 81
Meanwhile	p. 82
Teller	p. 83
The Bible of the Unlucky Sailor	p. 84
Poems of Fantasy	p. 87
The Sea Text	p. 92
Slow Harbor	p. 93
Visitation	p. 94
The Rose and Afterward	p. 95
Scarecrow Colloquy	p. 96
Observers	p. 98
(Prologue)	p. 100
The Transformations: A Fairy Tale	p. 101
Moonswarm	p. 107
Rider	p. 109
Narcissus and Echo	p. 110
The Story	p. 111
Pierrot Escapes	p. 112
The Tipsy Diva Remembers Pierrot	p. 114
Epigrams	p. 117
Going Through Zero to the Other Side	p. 118
Fleurs-des-Livres	p. 119
Upon a Confessional Poet	p. 120
No Defense	p. 120
Literary Critic	p. 121
Another	p. 121
Another	p. 121
Rx	p. 122
Upon an Amorous Old Couple	p. 122
U.S. Porn Queen (Ret.)	p. 123
Sex Manual	p. 123
Epitaph: Lydia	p. 123
Threads	p. 124
Satire	p. 124
The Epigrammatist	p. 125
Poems of Memory	p. 129
Humility	p. 134
A Prayer for the Mountains	p. 135
Seated Figure	p. 136
Abandoned Schoolhouse on Long Branch	p. 137
Child in the Fog	p. 138
Nocturne	p. 139
Message	p. 140
Cathedral	p. 141
Avignon and Afterward	p. 142
Heath at Two: Learning to Talk	p. 144
Afternoons with Allen	p. 145
Heath at Eight: New Drum Set	p. 146
Forever Mountain	p. 147
Epilogue	p. 151
Notes	p. 157
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