| Other author/creator | Hall, Donald, 1928-2018 inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017 signer. |
| Other author/creator | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Eberhart, Betty, former owner. |
| Series |
Penguin poets ; D67
Penguin poets D67. ^A712669
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| Contents |
William Stafford. Travelling through the dark ; Returned to say ; At cove on the crooked river ; Strokes ; Near ; With my crowbar key -- Robert Lowell. Christmas Eve under Hooker's statue ; The holy innocents ; New Year's Day ; Katherine's dream ; After the surprising conversions ; Memories of West Street and Lepke ; For sale ; Man and wife ; Skunk hour -- Robert Duncan. A poem beginning with a line by Pindar -- Reed Whittemore. Still life ; A day with the Foreign Legion ; On the suicide of a friend ; The party ; The walk home -- Howard Nemerov. Storm windows ; The statues in the public gardens ; A singular metamorphosis ; The view from an attic window ; The fall again -- Richard Wilbur. Tywater ; "A world without objects is a sensible emptiness" ; Museum piece ; After the last bulletins ; She ; The undead ; In the smoking car ; Shame -- Anthony Hecht. Alceste in the wilderness ; Samuel Sewall ; The vow ; The end of the weekend ;"More light! More light!" -- James Dickey. The performance ; Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek -- Denise Levertov. Overland to the islands ; Sunday afternoon ; The springtime ; The grace-note ; The world outside ; Six variations ; A map of the western part of the county of Essex in England -- John Logan. The picnic ; A trip to four or five towns -- Louis Simpson. Early in the morning ; The ash and the oak ; To the western world ; The riders held back ; Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain ; There is ; My father in the night commanding no -- Edgar Bowers. The mountain cemetery ; The prince ; The centaur overhead ; Adam's song to heaven ; Le Rêve -- Donald Justice. Beyond the hunting woods ; On the death of friends in childhood ; Here in Katmandu ; Another song ; Counting the mad ; On a painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane -- Robert Bly. Where we must look for help ; Sunda in Glastonbury ; Awakening ; Poem against the British ; Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River ; Hunting pheasants in a cornfield ; A busy man speaks ; Poem in three parts ; The possibility of new poetry ; After the Industrial Revolution, all things happen at once ; Sleet storm on the Merritt Parkway ; Andrew Jackson's speech -- Robert Creeley. After Lorca ; I know a man ; The hill ; The signboard ; The cracks ; For love ; Kore ; The rain -- James Merrill. The power station ; Angel ; Childlessness ; After Greece -- W. D. Snodgrass. From Heart's needle ; The examination ; Monet : "Les nymphéas" -- John Ashbery. Some trees ; The picture of little J.A. in a prospect of flowers ; A vase of flowers ; Thoughts of a young girl ; Our youth ; The young prince and the young princess -- Galway Kinnell. From The avenue bearing the initial of Christ into the new world ; Flower-herding pictures on Mount Monadnock -- W. S. Merwin. Leviathan ; Low fields and light ; The bones ; Small woman on Swallow Street ; Grandfather in the old men's home ; Views from the high camp ; Departure's girl-friend -- James Wright. A gesture by a lady with an assumed name ; At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953 ; Saint Judas ; Confession to J. Edgar Hoover ; Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me ; The blessing ; Miners -- X. J. Kennedy. First confession ; Nude descending a staircase ; Little elegy ; B negative ; In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day -- Adrienne Rich. The insusceptibles ; Readings of history -- Gary Snyder. All through the rains ; Piute Creek ; Above Pate Valley ; Milton by firelight ; Hay for the horses -- Robert Mezey. The funeral home ; Epitaph of a faithful man ; Late winter birthday ; Dark head ; The lovemaker ; To Philip Levine, on the Day of Atonement. |
| Local note | Inscribed on half-title "for Dick [i.e., Richard] & Betty [Eberhart] ... Don [i.e., Donald Hall] April 20, 1963" and autographed on title page "Richard Wilbur." Paperback. Stuart Wright Book Collection #35.23. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
