Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Simon Pettet.

Author

Pettet, Simon.

Publication

Jersey City, New Jersey : Talisman House, ©1995.

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Details

Description

x, 110 p. : ill.; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Contents

• An Enigma -- Gas Leak -- Poem (Take off ... the red shoes) -- Poem (When your friend takes all the pills) -- Blue Room -- Photographs -- Poem (the music ... loud) -- Wireless -- Sonne -- Spleen -- Love Poem (I too a bum and an albatross) -- Rivers of the Nile -- This Poem -- poor ... per -- Will you submit -- Poem (Four the clock the city) -- My Fourth Moorish Disaster -- (We're shooting for the eighties) -- Worship -- Poem (When you ... permit me ... to see) -- Epitaph -- Elegy (So well you're young and so you die) -- Poem (Of narrow streets and tall commanding buildings) -- Poem (In my heart) -- A Fine Madness -- Poem (How It Goes) -- Self Portrait 1978 -- Nocturne -- Yearning even in Paradise ... -- sick so -- Communications -- Poem (What it all comes down to ...) -- Pale Imitations -- Cyril -- Poem (She stoops to fire-hydrant) -- Poem (I wear my best pressed suit) -- Dismembering Gradations of Rank -- On My Mental Block -- Stuyvesant Park Studies -- Educente --
• A Storm Approaches -- Poem (Since leaving you ...) (So February has gone) -- Annul -- Poem (Piano concerto No. 1 in C Major ...) -- Snow -- Two Valentines -- Invocation -- Poem (I'm this dumb schmuck) -- Poem (Night follows low down and horizontal) -- Poem (mad lady on the steps) -- Rose Garland Sonnet -- Poem (We physical...) -- Evergreen -- In brown smoke stain -- Poem (In Idaho) -- (If ever love was made ...) -- Metaphysics -- Couplets -- Poem (more difficult than Japanese arithmetic) -- Poem (wept over Delacroix's watercolors) (Blue Room reprise) -- (The Bullfighter's Secret) -- February 5 1985 -- The Sentence -- Poem (and all the lover ever/wanted to know) -- Supplication -- Jazz -- Poem (First of May) -- Poem (The blue monkey ...) -- Logan's Song -- Alba -- Poem (In a universe of objects ...) -- Poem (The elected members rise) -- Star Crossed Lovers -- Amended Sermon -- Poem (The Gods told Thetis) -- Poem (O look) -- Erotics -- Poem (Sweet heart/ steam heat) --
• Poem (I am lying in my wooden bed) -- Poem (oil of clove/ oil of love) -- Poem (One day at a time) -- Poem (The mathematics of birdsong) -- A Dream -- Buddha for Breakfast -- Poem (sad to have to remember ...) -- Prayer (Invocation) -- His Resolve -- Poem (Dante is sentenced to death on my birthday) -- Poem (the sense of impermanence ...) -- Psora -- Complaint -- The Fool -- New Amsterdam -- Poem (The big bear holds the baby gently) -- Poem (Clear Quartz Mountain Crystal) -- Poem (Relying solely on divine providence) -- Bartleby -- Poem (Auld Reeky's at the juice again) -- Mevlana -- After the Persian -- Echo.

ISBN

• 1883689317 (hc : alk. paper)
• 1883689309 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95040300

OCLC

• 33079083
• ocm33079083

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries