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In the pines : lost poems, 1972-1997

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3569.A4536 I52 1998	Off-site

Description

174 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Here, David St. John has gathered poems that first appeared as limited edition chapbooks and uncollected work. Spanning twenty-five years in St. John's career, the work reflects the progression of a major voice in American letters in poems that predate Hush to those that follow the publication of his selected poems in 1994. In earlier poems reflecting the decadence of their times to recent work that embodies the world in which we presently live, St.
John's fresh imagery draws the reader into elegant poems that resonate with the mysteries of life.

Contents

A Prologue: The Dragon in the Lake -- California -- 33 -- Thinking of Cuba -- The Party's Over -- Dancing -- Lavender -- The Ash Tree -- Waltz -- Acadian Lane -- Stand By Me -- Providence -- Nothing Personal -- The Orange Piano -- After Esenin -- Departure -- Adrift -- Little Saigon -- My Parisian Aunt -- The Marais -- Louis XVI's Library -- My Days at the University -- Oriental Brushstrokes in a French Chateau -- Quote Me Wrong Again & I'll Slit the Throat of Your Pet Iguana -- Celestine in the Rain -- Anna Temoigne -- A Message From Monique -- Radio Eros -- Her Watch -- The Hotel -- London Flat -- The Avenue of Limes -- Don't Talk To Me, Touch Me -- Tears Before Their Time -- Lonely People in Lonely Places -- The White Pony -- Stairways and Fountains -- Lunch -- From the Notebook -- Seeing You -- A Winter Sermon -- Homage to Robert Johnson -- Welcome -- Heartbeat -- The Missionary -- An Afternoon: The Hotel at Portage-la-Prairie -- Casino --
Broken Gauges -- Symphonie Tragique -- Christmas in Taos -- A Distant Tune -- A Fortunate Man -- Disquiet Fortunes -- Cavalcanti's Dream: World's End -- Mirror -- Aspects Of Solange -- Lost Magic -- Elegy -- My Grandfather's Cap -- Lavender Disaster -- The Widow Of Peter the Great -- In The Pines.

ISBN

1877727903 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99019088

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries