Research Catalog

Title

Configurations : new and selected poems, 1958-1998 / Clarence Major.

Author

Major, Clarence.

Publication

Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

xi, 323 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry

Contents

• Swallow the Lake -- Kitchen Chair Poem #4 -- Kitchen Chair Poem #5 -- My Seasonal Body -- Waiting in the Children's Hospital -- The Doll Believers -- None of It Was -- Bill's -- Sailing -- Dismal Moment Passing -- Eighteen-Dollar Taxi Trip to Tizapan and Back to Chapala -- The Nerve -- The Rainy Season -- Madman of the South Side -- Food for Thought; or, Death Is Physical -- Mother Junkie -- The Cotton Club -- Giant Red Woman -- Words into Words Won't Go -- The Expanded Composition -- Read the Signs -- The Way the Roundness Feels -- A Life Story -- Funeral -- A Guy I Know on 47th and Cottage -- The Wounded Bullfighter -- Coon Showman -- Sexual Conduct -- Flowers for My Date -- Beyond Impasse -- In the Armpit of the Hill -- Ballroom Dark -- Pupa -- Little Rock -- Matthew -- Young Woman -- The Syncopated Cakewalk -- At Pointe de Rompe Talon -- Divine Law: A Blue Beach Sermon -- In Absence of the Tree -- Home on Rue du Bourg-Tibourg -- Balance and Beauty --
• Montalban: Near the Ancient Fort -- Revelation at Cap Ferrat -- Seine Split -- Dancing under the Stars at Nice -- Atelier Cezanne -- En Promenade des Anglais -- On the Old Roman Road -- Dressed to Kill -- "and who must remain" -- "He gave the Fascisti salute" -- "and as the memory of each" -- "There he was, a boy, looking over" -- "The theme of Carnevale is a secret" -- "Little places" -- "We climbed the hill to the carriages" -- "In Salute again" -- "You set out on a morning bright" -- "In a blazing sunset" -- "and the single reality" -- "See that stern castle" -- "The old woman comes" -- "They cut down the last tree" -- "They canal, this one" -- "Alone, I went into that special" -- "A Venice dream of the mainland" -- "In the hidden garden" -- Lost in the Desert -- In Hollywood with the Zuni God of War -- A Gallup Swill-Hole; or, Cantina Blues -- Tewa Victories -- Sign Language -- Saving Just the Real -- First -- Sand Flesh and Sky -- Pencil Sketch -- Riders --
• Posing -- Round Midnight -- Study for a Geographical Trail -- The Other Side of the Wall -- Bernardston -- The Swine Who's Eclipsed Me -- Love against Death -- Apple Core -- Honey Dripper -- Frenzy -- Wyoming -- Train Stop -- Un Poco Loco -- In Walked Bud with a Palette -- Being and Becoming -- The String -- Unwanted Memory -- Dance Floor -- Bricks and Sleep -- A Slow Process -- The Apple-Maggot Fly -- The Great Horned Owl -- The Jake Flower -- No Time for Self-Pity -- September Mendocino -- Descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba -- Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant -- Brief Visit to Venice -- No Single Thing by Itself -- Clay Bison in a Cave -- Stillness and Vertigo -- View from His Room -- At the Zoo in Spain -- Arriving Uninvited -- Santa Maria dei Frari -- Birds -- Darwin's Dream -- Heartland Music -- On the Nature of Perspective -- Downwind -- Looking at Images Reflected in the Showcase Plate Glass -- The Perfect Match --
• Hazy Day in the Composition -- Drawing from Life -- Harps -- Three Views of Horse -- The Textures of Space -- The Dispute -- Measure -- Aging Together -- The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage.

ISBN

1556590903 (pbk.)

LCCN

98040085

OCLC

• 39714822
• ocm39714822

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries