Time and Again: Poems 1940 - 1997

by HONIG EDWARD

• ISBN13: 9780738840246
• ISBN10: 0738840246
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Replica Books

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	19	(24)
I EARLY POEMS
On the Great River	24	(1)
Grammar of Memory	25	(1)
World View	25	(1)
Poetry and Pedantry	26	(1)
Vehicles	26	(1)
Green Sermon	27	(1)
Arey's Cove	28	(1)
Pastoral	29	(1)
Horse	30	(1)
Pleas	30	(1)
Failure	31	(1)
Monuments	32	(1)
Witnesses	33	(1)
Mission	34	(1)
Have You Watched Your Hand?	35	(1)
Shut	36	(1)
Noonday Prey	37	(1)
Pragma	38	(1)
The Tragic Flaw	39	(1)
Ballads for Janus	40	(1)
Reconversion	41	(1)
Original Sin	42	(1)
My Witness, My Lady	43	(2)
Absence	45	(1)
A Grave Story	45	(2)
Ego	47	(3)
II THE MORAL CIRCUS (1955)
First Morning	50	(1)
Hamlet	51	(1)
Quest	52	(1)
Sleepers	53	(3)
The Man Who Died	56	(1)
As A Great Prince	57	(1)
Corrida	58	(1)
The Tall Toms	59	(1)
The Moral Circus	60	(3)
Walt Whitman	61	(2)
Ditty to His Love	63	(1)
Happening	64	(1)
Summer: University Town	64	(1)
Lease and Loss	65	(1)
Thirtieth Year	66	(2)
Rustler	68	(1)
Ancestors	69	(1)
A Man	70	(1)
``In Divided and Distinguished Worlds''	71	(1)
Prayer	72	(1)
``Do You Love Me?''	73	(2)
Winter Sticks	75	(1)
The Marriage	76	(1)
Last Act	76	(4)
III FROM THE GAZABOS (1959-1961)
Jawing of Genesis	80	(1)
Three Sides of a Sunset	80	(2)
Island Storm	82	(2)
Through a Winter Island Window	84	(1)
Speech	84	(1)
Averages: A Pantomime	85	(1)
Odyssey	86	(1)
May 1945	87	(1)
Jane Retreat	88	(1)
For an Immigrant Grandmother	89	(1)
When My Sorrow Came Home	90	(1)
Grammarian Thumbing an Old Text	91	(1)
Pray Eros	92	(2)
Outer Drive	94	(1)
Advice from a Comic Book	95	(1)
Across the Street	96	(1)
Scape: By Auto & Camera Through Navajo Country	97	(1)
A Beauty That Rages	98	(2)
Reading Miss Moore's La Fontaine	100	(1)
A Passing Snowbird Asked	101	(1)
Corrales, 1948	102	(1)
What's Good Waits Long	103	(1)
Short Hymn to the Breath	104	(1)
Snowbird Blues	105	(3)
The White Explorers	108	(1)
Near Hope in Providence	109	(1)
The Gazabos	110	(4)
IV Survivals (1964)
I
Doom Walks	114	(1)
Vehicles	115	(1)
TEte-a-TEte	116	(1)
Quarry	117	(1)
Young December in Old Pollentia	118	(1)
Asleep in Spain	118	(2)
Fall of a House	120	(2)
Glad Day	122	(1)
II
Desertions	123	(1)
The Island	124	(5)
A Housekeeping Novel	129	(2)
Abel	131	(2)
Lightning and the Stony Night	133	(1)
Winter Rounds	134	(1)
The Weather's Criminal	135	(5)
III
Elegy	140	(3)
The Furnace	143	(1)
It Cannot Be It Is	144	(1)
Absence	145	(1)
Ode to the Poets and Critics of Lisbon	146	(1)
God Wishing Man	147	(1)
Don't Be Wounded	148	(1)
Relocating the Statues	148	(2)
IV
ForC.	150	(1)
Wife	150	(1)
My Love is Asleep	151	(1)
What Changes, My Love	152	(1)
Death with its Cup of Hopefulness	153	(1)
Unless Love Die	154	(1)
Being Complex, Unsure	154	(1)
Arrears	155	(1)
For Now	156	(2)
Passing	158	(1)
Now, Before the End, I Think	159	(1)
Our Last Dream Alive	160	(3)
Now, My Usefulness Over	163	(2)
V FROM SPRING JOURNAL POEMS (1968)	165	(398)
I
The Dead	166	(1)
To Dream	167	(1)
King of Death	168	(2)
Her Hand	170	(1)
Eurydice	171	(1)
Wind to Wind	172	(1)
Returning to the Old House	173	(1)
The Gift	174	(1)
Back to ``Tahiti''	175	(1)
II
For Margot	176	(2)
Birth Song: In the Wing Seat, at Night	178	(3)
Second Son Day	181	(2)
Nativity	183	(1)
Race	184	(1)
Back to Bodega	185	(1)
Mornings in April and May	186	(1)
Messages	187	(1)
Late, Late	188	(1)
November Through a Giant Copper Beech	189	(1)
Bodega, Goodbye	190	(1)
Grand Tour-Package Deal	191	(1)
Ah Life, This Lowgrade Infection	192	(2)
Cuba in Mind	194	(1)
Polyglot Israel and Back	195	(4)
VI FOUR SPRINGS (1972)
Note	198	(1)
Spring One	199	(16)
Spring Two	215	(19)
Spring Three	234	(13)
Spring Four	247	(11)
VII THE AFFINITIES OF ORPHEUS (1976)
Through You	258	(1)
Orpheus Below	259	(30)
A Verse Play in Four Scenes	259	(1)
On the way to Pluto's kingdom	260	(12)
In Pluto's kingdom	272	(3)
The same as Scene II	275	(10)
The same as Scene II	285	(4)
Shake a Spear with Me, John Berryman	289	(5)
Another Orpheus	294	(12)
His Chain	294	(1)
His Dream	295	(1)
Another	295	(1)
A Wind Dies	296	(1)
His Song	297	(1)
The Silence	298	(2)
Her Remoteness	300	(1)
After Eurydice	301	(1)
Melting Song	302	(1)
After Orpheus	303	(1)
Another Orpheus	304	(1)
Joy: an End Song	305	(1)
Asking Eurydice	306	(16)
Who	306	(2)
Lines for Dancers	308	(2)
Lines for Her Living	310	(1)
In Afterlight	311	(1)
Now Back Then	312	(1)
Eurydice Thought	313	(3)
Movements of the Appassionata	316	(3)
Beyond Recall	319	(3)
VIII THE ANTICATASTROPHES OF EDWIN HONIG (1978)
Anon	322	(1)
A Poem About Texas	323	(1)
Ballad	324	(1)
Caught You	325	(1)
Comment	326	(1)
Cool Fountain: the Spanish Fonte Frida	327	(1)
Cow Lines	328	(4)
Dawn After a Full Moon	332	(1)
Eat the Bean	332	(2)
Explaining Stevens	334	(1)
Five Erotics for Jack's Fiftieth	335	(3)
Homecoming	338	(1)
How It Was To Be With Ogden The Editor As A Visitor In China	338	(1)
In the Cellarway	339	(2)
Insult and Vengeance	341	(1)
Intimidations at Fifty	342	(3)
Is	345	(1)
It Might Have Been Sunday	345	(2)
My Face Looks Out	347	(1)
On Rosmarie's ``No Hurry to Struggle''	347	(1)
An Old Man Is Snoring	348	(1)
Praise This Crescent Moon	349	(1)
Serving Supper Naked	350	(1)
Sounds	351	(1)
The End of Romance	352	(1)
The Sixteen-Year-Old Poet Sploshed on a Seaman's Pint of Germs Joys Juice	353	(2)
The Tendencies	355	(1)
Three Documentary Poems for James Schevill	356	(4)
Three Monkeys at a Watergate	360	(3)
Watering the Garden	363	(1)
Wisdom Against Wisdom	364	(1)
Yesterday	365	(3)
IX FROM INTERRUPTED PRAISE (1983)
I
To Restore a Dead Child	368	(7)
The Abstract Man Encounters the Adjutant	375	(4)
Soldier	379	(2)
By Sea Stone	381	(4)
Teetering	385	(1)
II. Poems (1976-1980)
Promise	386	(1)
After the Letter	387	(2)
Listen	389	(1)
Being Somebody	390	(3)
Letter from New Hampshire	393	(3)
An Art of Summer	396	(3)
Starting the Hostilities	399	(1)
Passionflower	400	(1)
Opening	401	(1)
I Need You	401	(1)
After the Separation	402	(1)
The House	403	(2)
Monster Talk	405	(1)
Dialogue in the Sleeping House	406	(1)
Without Love	407	(1)
Passes for Nicanor Parra	408	(2)
Partita	410	(1)
The Painter in the Mountain	411	(1)
For His Mother Flying into Her Seventy-Seventh	412	(1)
Stumbling out of the Prado	413	(1)
Rilke's White Horse	414	(1)
Another March	414	(1)
Come	415	(1)
Night Island	416	(1)
Sweeping the Room	416	(1)
Last Song	417	(1)
G. W. M.	417	(1)
Pablo Neruda	418	(1)
Three Moments for George Sullivan	419	(7)
X GIFTS OF LIGHT (1983)
Gifts of Light	426	(34)
XI THE IMMINENCE OF LOVE (1993)
I The Imminence of Love
The Recognition	460	(1)
Santa Teresa	461	(1)
Below Mount Zion	462	(1)
As It Is	463	(1)
Night Flight	463	(5)
Apollo in the Defeated Town	468	(1)
Looking for the Son of Minos	469	(1)
the Silence	470	(1)
Who She Was	471	(1)
A Single Love	472	(4)
Remembering Hornets	476	(7)
Words in the Hallway	483	(1)
For Abe Honig at 95	484	(1)
How Morning Comes	485	(2)
Leftover Seed	487	(2)
Light Changes	489	(2)
After a Poem	491	(1)
Luis Cernuda
Late Wedding Dance	492	(1)
Imaginary Loves	493	(3)
The Learned Body	496	(2)
Light Changes	498	(3)
II So Much Floating Underneath
Cries from Home in China	501	(1)
Pessoa's Last Masquerade	502	(1)
Remember the Famous Chinese Water Torture?	503	(1)
Cathedral Country	504	(1)
A Late Visit to Robert Graves	504	(2)
History of the Book	506	(1)
From the Dark	507	(1)
Emptying the Bead	507	(1)
God Talk	508	(3)
The Old New War	511	(2)
The Shout	513	(1)
Now and Then	514	(1)
Bagatelles I	515	(2)
Bagatelles II	517	(1)
Bagatelles III	518	(3)
IV The Flimsy Mountain Stream Waltzes Through the Meadow
Minotaur	521	(2)
Under Sirius	523	(1)
Making the Rounds in the Hugged House of Mind	524	(6)
Mao's Snow	530	(1)
God Is My Eraser	531	(1)
Making It	531	(1)
Some Knots	532	(1)
A Country Tale	532	(2)
Moles Progress	534	(7)
October Out of Jaffrey	541	(1)
V Assuming Survival
Beginnings Are Fragile	542	(1)
In the Mojave	543	(2)
Origins of the Universe	545	(2)
The Insufferable Allness of What Was	547	(2)
Assuming Survival	549	(1)
Near the Pacific, Earth Dreams	550	(13)
XII NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1997)	563	(37)
Time Before the Aftertime	564	(1)
Future Scan	565	(1)
Late Portraits of the Bard	566	(4)
How To	570	(1)
Chapter in the Life of	571	(5)
Last Guide Gone	576	(1)
Changing Your Address?	577	(1)
Angel Adam	578	(1)
Adam's Position	578	(1)
Angelic Adjustments	579	(3)
Who Needs Angels?	582	(1)
Arising at Mount San Angelo	583	(1)
Watching Her Go	584	(2)
After Charlotte-1964	586	(1)
Some Day Tomorrow	587	(1)
A Groaning Thing	588	(1)
A Shout for Al	588	(2)
The Silence	590	(1)
Last Poem	591	(1)
Toward Noon	591	(1)
Wapping 1972	592	(1)
The Snake Charming Bee	593	(1)
The Hinting of Lot's Daughters	594	(1)
Displacement	595	(1)
In the Twenties	596	(1)
Fall-and Rise	597	(1)
Now	597	(1)
Parts of the Song	598	(1)
Late Is Soon Enough	599	(1)
Hymn to Her	600