Research Catalog

Title

Red actions : selected poems, 1960-1993 / Robert Kelly.

Author

Kelly, Robert, 1935-

Publication

Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Economou, George
• Owens, Rochelle
• Black Sparrow Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Description

398 p.; 24 cm

Note

• Design by Barbara Martin.
• "This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 cloth trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & there are 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original holograph poem by the poet. These holograph poems make up a series called Postcards from Mnemosyne."--Colophon.
• Rare Book copy 1: No. 12 of the 100 numbered, signed copies.
• Rare Book copy 2: Paper wrappers. Inscribed to George [Economou] and Rochelle [Owens] by the author.

Contents

• Measure those distances: Of this night -- Measure those distances: The church -- Measure those distances: The boat -- Measure those distances: Going -- Poem for the Jews -- Sun of the Center -- The Alchemist -- Hui-neng Chops Bamboo -- "The Exchanges": Section V: "a black flower" -- The Law -- An Epitaph -- Dr Sunyata's Poem -- The Process -- By the River -- To Her Body, Against Time -- Haruspex -- Reaching the Limits -- Face in the Rock Wall -- [a gathering of lunes from the first years] -- from Up on Autumn -- State of the Nation -- Devotions: Section XVIII: The Wood Man -- [from the Book of the Kings, the Five-line stanzas] -- A Lesser Art -- A Spell -- "Against death this density" -- Alpha: Sections 1-4 -- Prefix: Finding the measure -- Stanzas from Dante -- The Death of Rasputin -- Alba -- Last Light -- Sonnet 18 -- Song XXI -- Injune -- Of William Mount, the "Luminist" -- The Moon -- Mudra -- A Fable -- from The Book of the Running Woman --
• An die ferne Geliebte -- A Constant Telling of the Father and His Widdershins -- The Pastorals Section 2: An Elevation -- The Pastorals Section 3: Claude Lorraine -- Against the Code -- Elgar's Second Symphony -- The Sound -- In Mahler's Sleep -- Ralegh -- Linguistics -- The Customs Inspector -- Eve of St Mark's -- The Centerfielder -- Love Song I -- The Loom from Section 3: The Sea Machine -- The Loom from Section 9, Sonata in A[flat]: The Essay on Form -- Ode 15 -- Ode 16 -- The Lady Of -- The Tears of Edmund Burke -- The Last Religion -- Chastity -- A My Name -- The Origin of It -- The Acquisition -- Les Joueurs de Foot-Ball, 1908 -- "It might have been that he was near death" -- from "Orpheus," 3: Eurydice speaks -- The Book of Persephone Section 3: (Aria of Plutone) -- The Book of Persephone Section 10: "Earth is a woman who imagines us" -- The Book of Persephone Section 16: (Fourth Ode to Persephone) -- "The birds told me" -- Texts: 23 -- The Long March --
• A Woman from Connaught -- Studies from the Mishnah: III -- Early Spring Day Along the Housatonic -- Gacela -- The Shortstop -- The Dismembered -- Sentence: Section 3 -- Evening -- Cathedral of the Incarnation -- Gethsemani -- The Tower of Babel -- Spring Sonnet -- Elements of Moral Semiotics -- "Seek out the far capillaries" -- "My boyhood was a raft of poems" -- "When the brokers were raining on Wall Street" -- The Nature of Metaphor -- from Postcards from tbe Underworld: Postcards 1, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 24 -- The Head of Orpheus -- Ode to Language -- Variations on a Poem of Stefan George -- "I want to tell you" -- from A Stone Wall in Providence: Sections 1, 3, 9, 10, 11, 20 -- Looking -- from Those Who Are Beautiful/A Sonata -- The Rainmakers -- Dampier's Voyages -- The Man Who Loved White Chocolate -- Towards the Day of Liberation -- The Cloudherd's Song -- Elegy -- The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence: [twenty-five sections] -- In the Light -- Melencolia --
• Windows -- The Hunter -- From the Resting Place of the Grail -- A Flower for the New Year -- Horse -- Afterdeath -- Ariadne: [the first part] -- Prince Andrei Looks at the Sky -- Set on War -- Reading Li Shang-yin -- Patmos -- Mapping -- The Phantom of the Opera -- Satyr Mourning a Nymph -- Voyage to the Center of the Earth -- The Triads -- Man Sleeping -- Holy Sonnets -- The Door -- Devotions and Permissions: Some notes on these Selected Poems.

ISBN

• 0876859775 (paper : alk. paper)
• 0876859783 (cloth trade : alk. paper)
• 0876859791 (signed cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

95035351

OCLC

• 32926214
• ocm32926214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries