In the stoneworks : [poems].

Author/creator Ciardi, John
Other author Ciardi, John, 1916-1986 inscriber
Other author Smith, David former owner
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1961]
Description83 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents The sea shines -- The dolls -- Back home in Pompeii -- A memory of the sad chair -- Song for an allegorical play -- In the garden of the hurricane's eye -- The tree -- The little one -- Dialogue -- Bedlam revisited -- Tick -- Aunt Mary -- a dialogue in the shade -- It took four flowerboats to convoy my father's black -- Song -- The graveyard of Saint X in January -- At a hospital window -- It is spring, darling -- In the stoneworks -- Epitaph -- Showing a foreigner through his studio Leonardo answers a question -- Hamlet in the wings -- My countryman Marco Polo -- Launcelot in hell -- George Gordon of Gight -- Damn her -- A plea -- The conqueror speaks -- A voice said -- Divorced, husband demolishes house -- The eleventh hour news -- A rhetoric for Danny Keough to recite at the bar -- On meeting Miss B -- Dogmatism -- An island galaxy -- At cocktails -- Faces -- Everywhere that universe -- Watching a kettle boil -- Joshua on Eighth Avenue -- A sick geranium -- Returning home -- Dragons -- Beagles -- The bird in whatever name -- Peaks -- An Antarctic hymn -- Goodnight.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy inscribed "for David Smith-- with all good wishes on a fine night-- and beyond. John Ciardi, Gainesville, Nov. 6, 1981." Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #70.1. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Local noteLittle-113875 - $7.50
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
LCCN 61010256

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS3505.I27 I5 1961 ✔ Available Request Material