The descent / Ann Stanford.

Author/creator Stanford, Ann author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Viking Press, 1970.
Copyright Date©1970
Descriptionxi, 83 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American poetry--20th century.

Contents By the woods, reading -- Voices inescapable -- Double mirror -- Memorial -- In the Black Forest -- Fathers -- And I came to a field -- Done with -- Given child -- Self betrayed -- Letter from Portugal -- Cassandra's wedding song -- Intruder -- To Carolina -- Before -- Flood -- Night rain -- Arrayal -- Beating -- Friend -- Escape -- On the way -- Committee -- Lecture -- "The passenger pigeon" / John James Audubon -- "View of Ballston Spa, New York" / William Strickland -- "Snap the whip " / Winslow Homer -- "Plate the second" / Robert Fulton -- Untitled / Dolly Hazlewood -- "American tragedy" / Philip Evergood -- "The peaceable kingdom" / Edward Hicks -- On the death of the president -- Speed of planes -- From the air -- Informer -- Three poems for a read-in -- Discourse -- Descent -- In the husk -- By the waters -- Rod -- Organization of space -- In the Lenten season -- Late visitor -- Gift -- Morning -- Mirror -- Postcard from Venice -- Birthday -- Night of souls -- Numbers -- Going away -- To her spirit at the winter solstice -- Weeds.
Local noteIncludes dust jacket. Laid in is a business card for Barbara Burn of Viking Press. Stuart Wright Book Collection #66a.10. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General notePoems.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Issued in other formOnline version: Stanford, Ann. Descent. New York, Viking Press [1970]
Genre/formPoetry.
LCCN 71094853
ISBN0670267058
ISBN9780670267057

Availability

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PS3537.T18 D4 1970 ✔ Available Request Material