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A Wild Peculiar Joy The Selected Poems

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    9780771049484

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-23
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
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Summary

A Wild PeculiarJoyis Irving Layton's poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada's most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and political conscience, and an intensely humanistic view of the world. This is poetry that is timeless and universal. Drawn from his entire body of work, and now reissued in this handsomely redesigned volume, this edition includes a new introduction by Sam Solecki, and selected short excerpts from Irving Layton's writings on the craft of poetry.A Wild PeculiarJoyonce again makes available to readers the poetry of Irving Layton and stands as the author's definitive selected.

Author Biography

<b>Irving Layton</b> was born in 1912 and has lived most of his life in Montreal. One of Canada’s most highly celebrated and prolific poets, having authored over forty books of poetry, many of which have appeared in translation, Layton has been the recipient of numerous awards for his poetry and for his continuing contribution to Canadian literature. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Sam Solecki xv
The Birth of Tragedy 1(2)
The Swimmer 3(1)
Vexata Quaestio 4(1)
The Black Huntsmen 5(1)
Love the Conqueror Worm 6(1)
Street Funeral 7(1)
Against This Death 8(1)
New Tables 9(2)
To the Girls of My Graduating Class 11(1)
Paraclete 12(1)
Mont Rolland 13(1)
Rain at La Minerve 14(2)
Look, the Lambs Are All Around Us! 16(2)
Misunderstanding 18(1)
Composition in Late Spring 19(2)
In the Midst of My Fever 21(2)
Now That I'm Older 23(1)
Maxie 24(2)
Song for Naomi 26(2)
For Louise, Age 17 28(1)
The Bull Calf 29(2)
Seven O'Clock Lecture 31(1)
The Improved Binoculars 32(2)
The Cold Green Element 34(2)
La Minerve 36(1)
The Poetic Process 37(2)
Keewaydin Poetry Festival 39(2)
The Mosquito 41(1)
Golfers 42(1)
On Seeing the Statuettes of Ezekiel and Jeremiah in the Church of Notre Dame 43(2)
From Colony to Nation 45(1)
The Fertile Muck 46(2)
Boys Bathing 48(1)
Song for a Late Hour 49(1)
Nausicaa 50(1)
Bargain 51(1)
The Convertible 52(1)
Woman 53(1)
Letter to a Librarian 54(1)
On Being Bitten by a Dog 55(1)
Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom 56(2)
My Flesh Comfortless 58(2)
Cain 60(2)
Cat Dying in Autumn 62(2)
Cote des Neiges Cemetery 64(2)
Sheep 66(2)
Family Portrait 68(1)
For Mao Tse-Tung: A Meditation on Flies and Kings 69(2)
Berry Picking 71(1)
Butterfly on Rock 72(1)
Paging Mr. Superman 73(3)
Still Life 76(1)
The Predator 77(2)
Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959 79(1)
The Cage 80(1)
Political Economy 81(1)
Divine Image 82(1)
A Tall Man Executes a Jig 83(4)
There Were No Signs 87(1)
Plaza de Toros 88(1)
Ballad of the Old Spaniard 89(2)
El Gusano 91(2)
The Day Aviva Came to Paris 93(3)
An Old Nicoise Whore 96(2)
Iroquois in Nice 98(2)
Rhine Boat Trip 100(1)
The Skull 101(1)
Ithaca 102(1)
Stella 103(2)
Heraclitus 105(2)
The Graveyard 107(1)
For Musia's Grandchildren 108(1)
A Strange Turn 109(1)
For Natalya Correia 110(1)
End of the White Mouse 111(2)
Like a Mother Demented 113(2)
Centennial Ode 115(2)
Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1940) 117(2)
To Maoists 119(1)
Journey into the Long Night on Castors 120(1)
Absence 121(1)
The Silence 122(1)
Signs and Portents 123(2)
Bodhidharma 125(1)
The Shark 126(1)
The Haunting 127(1)
Shakespeare 128(4)
For Auld Lang Syne 132(1)
The Arch 133(2)
Catacombe dei Cappuccini 135(2)
Parque de Montjuich 137(2)
Cabalist 139(1)
Midsummer's Dream in the Vienna Stadtpark 140(1)
For 7515-03296 141(1)
Europe 1976 142(1)
The Haemorrhage 143(1)
To the Victims of the Holocaust 144(1)
After Auschwitz 145(1)
For My Sons, Max and David 146(2)
Israelis 148(1)
For My Brother Jesus 149(2)
The Luminous Bagel 151(2)
Xianity 153(1)
The Sinner 154(1)
The Galilean 155(1)
Dialogue 156(1)
Recipe for a Long and Happy Life 157(1)
Hells 158(1)
The Dark Underside 159(1)
O Jerusalem 160(1)
Synagogue in West Palm Beach 161(1)
The Puma 162(2)
Yeats in St. Lucia 164(2)
Figs 166(1)
Narcissus 167(1)
Flies 168(2)
Grand Finale 170(1)
Night Music 171(2)
Where Was Your Shit-Detector, Pablo? 173(3)
Dracula 176(1)
The Slaughterhouse 177(1)
Meditation of an Aging Lebanese Poet 178(1)
La Commedia 179(1)
Flytrap 180(1)
The Human Cry 181(1)
Senile, My Sister Sings 182(2)
The Garburetor 184(2)
How a Poem Moves 186(1)
Proteus and Nymph 187(1)
L'Envoi 188(1)
The Annunciation 189(1)
North of Eden 190(1)
The Search 191(2)
Anarch 193(2)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 195(2)
For My Neighbours in Hell 197(1)
Sunflowers 198(1)
Sempre 199(1)
Early Morning Sounds 200(1)
Greetings 201(1)
Blossom 202(1)
Nominalist 203(1)
Samantha Clara Layton 204(1)
The Garden 205(2)
When Hourly I Praised 207(1)
Everything in the Universe Has Its Place 208(1)
Vita Aeterna 209(1)
The Breaststroke 210(1)
The Wheel 211(2)
I Think of Ovid 213(2)
Inspiration 215(1)
Party at Hydra 216(2)
Rupert Brooke: 1887-1915 218(2)
Fortuna et Cupidas 220(2)
The Cockroach 222(2)
The Tightrope Dancer 224(1)
When Death Comes for You 225(1)
Bridegroom 226(1)
Two Women 227(2)
Fascination 229(1)
Medusas 230(1)
The Prize 231(1)
In Plato's Cave 232(1)
Letter to a Lost Love 233(2)
Operation Barbarossa 235(1)
Expurgated Edition 236(2)
Out of Pure Lust 238(1)
Dead Souls 239(1)
New Shining Worlds 240(1)
Blind Man's Bluff 241(1)
Perfection 242(1)
The Dazed Fly 243(2)
Descent from Eden 245(2)
Sex Appeal 247(1)
Odd Obsession 248(2)
Portrait of a Modern Woman 250(2)
To Make an End 252(2)
Epistle to Catullus 254(2)
Zucchini 256(2)
Boris Pasternak 258(1)
Aristocrats 259(1)
From the Nether World 260(2)
For the Wife of Mr. Milton 262(1)
The Seesaw 263(2)
The Carillon 265(1)
I Take My Anna Everywhere 266(1)
Yeats at Sixty-Five 267(1)
Kali in the Suburbs 268(1)
Greek Fly 269(2)
August Strindberg 271(1)
Dionysians in a Bad Time 272(1)
Elegy for Marilyn Monroe 273(3)
For Ettore, with Love and Admiration 276(1)
Reingemacht 277(2)
Boschka Layton: 1921-1984 279(1)
Eternal Recurrence 280(1)
Elephant 281(2)
Funeraria "Olea" 283(1)
Peacock 284(1)
Music Hath Such Charms 285(1)
Tristezza 286(1)
Fellini 287(1)
Final Reckoning: After Theognis 288(2)
Paul Verlaine 290(1)
Nostalgia When the Leaves Begin to Fall 291(1)
Old Men 292(1)
The Lesson 293(1)
Bottles 294(2)
Arabs 296(2)
Molibos 298(1)
Twentieth Century Gothic 299(1)
Black Tourist in Tinos 300(1)
On the Death of Pope Paul VI 301(1)
La Condition Humaine 302(1)
Budapest 303(2)
With the Money I Spend 305(2)
Beutel's Name Is Inscribed for Eternal Life 307(1)
Attending Suzanne's Funeral 308(2)
Late Invitation to the Dance 310(2)
Lillian Roxon 312(1)
Birthday Poem for John Newlove 313(2)
Sandcrab 315(1)
Etruscan Tombs 316(2)
A Wild Peculiar Joy 318(3)
Irving Layton on Poetry 321(14)
A Note on the Text 335(2)
Index of Titles 337

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Excerpts

THERE WERE NO SIGNS

By walking I found out
Where I was going.

By intensely hating, how to love.
By loving, whom and what to love.

By grieving, how to laugh from the belly.

Out of infirmity, I have built strength.
Out of untruth, truth.
From hypocrisy, I wove directness.

Almost now I know who I am.
Almost I have the boldness to be that man.

Another step
And I shall be where I started from.

Excerpted from A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems by Irving Layton
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