Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems : 1955-1997 / Charles Tomlinson.

Author

Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-2015.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiv, 226 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook original, NDP855"--P. [4] of cover.
• Includes index.

Contents

• Preface / Charles Tomlinson -- Aesthetic -- Venice -- Nine Variations in a Chinese Winter Setting -- Sea Change -- Fiascherino -- The Atlantic -- Winter Encounters -- Oxen: Ploughing at Fiesole -- The Mediterranean -- How Still the Hawk -- Glass Grain -- Tramontana at Lerici -- Northern Spring -- The Crane -- Paring the Apple -- More Foreign Cities -- A Meditation on John Constable -- Frondes Agrestes -- Farewell to Van Gogh -- Cezanne at Aix -- At Holwell Farm -- On the Hall at Stowey -- Civilities of Lamplight -- from 'Antecedents': VI Something: A Direction -- The Churchyard Wall -- Winter-Piece -- Canal -- John Maydew or The Allotment -- The Hand at Callow Hill Farm -- The Picture of J. T. in a Prospect of Stone -- Up at La Serra -- Sea Poem -- Head Hewn with an Axe -- Over Brooklyn Bridge -- Ode to Arnold Schoenberg -- The Snow Fences -- The Door -- The Weathercocks -- A Given Grace -- The Cavern -- Arizona Desert -- A Death in the Desert --
• Las Trampas USA -- Mr Brodsky -- Ute Mountain -- A Garland for Thomas Eakins -- The Well -- The Oaxaca Bus -- Idyll -- Swimming Chenango Lake -- Prometheus -- Eden -- Adam -- Assassin -- Against Extremity -- In the Fullness of Time -- The Way of a World -- Descartes and the Stove -- On the Principle of Blowclocks -- A Sense of Distance -- The Fox Gallery -- To be Engraved on the Skull of a Cormorant -- The Chances of Rhyme -- On Water -- The Lighthouse -- Stone Speech -- The Compact: at Volterra -- At Sant'Antimo -- Ariadne and the Minotaur -- Hawks -- Of Beginning Light -- Autumn Piece -- Event -- During Rain -- The Way In -- At Stoke -- Gladstone Street -- The Marl Pits -- After a Death -- Hill Walk -- How Far -- Of Lady Grange -- Charlotte Corday -- For Danton -- Casarola -- Prose Poem -- Images of Perfection -- The Faring -- The Metamorphosis -- Mushrooms -- Sky Writing -- In Arden -- The Shaft -- The Scream -- Snow Signs -- Their Voices Rang --
• For Miriam -- Hay -- Under the Bridge -- San Fruttuoso: the Divers -- Above Carrara -- Fireflies -- Thunder in Tuscany -- The Littleton Whale -- The Flood -- The Epilogue -- Above Manhattan -- All Afternoon -- To Ivor Gurney -- Black Brook -- Poem for my Father -- Night Fishers -- The Moment -- Writing on Sand -- Valle de Oaxaca -- In the Borghese Gardens -- Revolution -- Fountain -- The Return -- Catacomb -- The Miracle of the Bottle and the Fishes -- In Memory of George Oppen -- The Tax Inspector -- from 'Winter Journey' -- A Rose for Janet -- The Well -- The Hawthorn in Trent Vale -- Ararat -- Annunciation -- The Blade -- Above the Rio Grande -- The Plaza -- Far Point -- Carrara Revisited -- The House in the Quarry -- At the Autumn Equinox -- The Butterflies -- Harvest -- Letter to Uehata -- Orion over Farne -- Chance -- The Headland -- For a Godchild -- The Operation -- Siena in Sixty-Eight -- Paris in Sixty-Nine -- Blaubeuren --
• The Door in the Wall -- Geese Going South -- The Stair -- Hacienda -- Response to Hopkins -- Song -- Second Song -- Before the Concert -- Picking Mushrooms by Moonlight -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 1 On the Terrace -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 2 To be Read Later On -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 3 Jessica Learned to Kiss -- from 'For A Granddaughter': 6 To My Daughter -- Against Travel -- To Vasko Popa in Rome -- Valestrieri -- Down from Colonnata -- A Retrospect: 1951-91 -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 1 Alto Minho -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 2 Ponte de Lima -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 3 Soajo -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 4 Swallows -- from 'Portuguese Pieces': 6 In Lisbon -- Zipangu -- Snapshot -- Jubilacion -- The Track of the Deer -- The Shadow -- Walks -- A Doggerel for My Seventieth Birthday -- A Backward Glance.

ISBN

0811213692 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97025373

OCLC

• 37109266
• ocm37109266

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries