Research Catalog

Title

Tide and continuities : last and first poems, 1995-1938 / Peter Viereck.

Author

Viereck, Peter, 1916-2006.

Publication

Fayetteville, AR : University of Arkansas Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xix, 320 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many poems never before published and work - some with stunning revisions - from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early as his 1948 Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, Terror and Decorum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Rhymed Foreword / Joseph Brodsky -- At My Hospital Window -- Dionysus in Old Age -- Goat Ode in Mid-Dive -- Pluto Incognito -- Continuities -- Counter-Continuities -- Rogue -- Full of Life -- Welcome to Tarsus -- Up -- Down -- Old Fool, Die Quicker -- Re-feel -- Song to the End -- Which of Us Two? -- Ore -- Hut Wait -- Autumn: A Dialogue on Three Levels -- To Helen (of Troy, N.Y.) -- Birth of Song -- Eyelids -- By the Way -- Small Perfect Manhattan -- In Earth Who Wallows Like Its Borrowers? -- The Shaggy Somnambulists -- Fiftieth Birthday -- Portrait of the Artist as an Old Dog -- Massachusetts Seventeeners -- To Womanly Beauty in Motion -- The Day's No Rounder Than Its Angles Are -- Athos or Assisi? -- Four Translation Samples -- Space-Wanderer's Homecoming -- Love Song to Eohippus -- Is Mary Everybody? -- Again, Again: The Old Renewed -- Honorable Daftness -- Gladness Ode -- Release -- Two Elegies -- The Lost Self -- Modbard @ Westciv -- Tug of War --
• Metapolitics, 1938 -- Straitjacket -- Ballad of Maggie Jones -- Lot's Wife -- Now That Holocaust and Crucifixion Are Coffee-Table Books -- Two Tombwomb Poems -- Line against Circle -- Kilroy -- Ennui -- In Awe of Marriage -- Last Day of Childhood -- Ripeness Is All -- Finis: The Old Adam -- Like Boaz -- The Planted Poet -- Antistrophe to "The Planted Poet" -- To My Underwater Moon -- Dance of the Haemophiliacs -- For Two Girls Setting Out in Life -- Coming Attractions -- Hard Times Redeemed by Soft Discarded Values -- Crass Times Redeemed by Dignity of Souls -- Decorum and Terror -- In the Month of March the Snails Climb Tender Trees -- The Persimmon Tree -- Vegetable Frenzies -- The Insulted and the Injured -- I Alone Am Moving -- The Slacker Apologizes -- My Gentlest Song -- Paysage Moralise -- To My Playmate, with Thanks for All Those Carefree Days Together -- The Delphic Gallows-Oak -- Saga -- I Am an Old Town-Square -- River: The First Morning --
• Snow against Rain -- Leaf-Drift Rhythms -- Tuscan Loam -- Tree Ballad -- Stanzas in Love with Life and August -- A Walk on Moss -- Walks in Rome -- Stanzas of an Old Unrest -- Borghese Gardens, Lago di Esculapio -- Castel Sant' Angelo -- Frutta di Stagione -- Walks on the Edge -- The Entropy Song -- A Wreath for a Plunge -- More Wings Than Wings Can Bear -- Last Walk: Resist -- Tide -- Crossbow -- Persephone and Old Poet.

ISBN

• 1557283133 (alk. paper)
• 1557283141 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95006773

OCLC

ocm32166112

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries