Research Catalog

Title

Something shining : new poems / by Daniel Halpern.

Author

Halpern, Daniel, 1945-

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Ramdom House, 1999.

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Details

Description

83 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "These poems explore relations between lovers, between friends, between fathers and children. Written by the light of a young daughter's presence these poems ponder the fading of the body and the struggle that consciousness wages to keep the self afloat. And into this intimate world also enter a surprising array of characters: ancient Chinese poets and modern Cuban musicians, Charlie Parker, Chekhov, and the dervish mystic Rumi.
• But it is the poet's awareness of his own frailty ("the days run out - no longer oneself," he writes in "Fugue"), that, together with the extraordinary beauty he discovers in environments familiar and exotic, unifies this collection."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

Zeno's Lemur -- Her Body -- After the Vigil -- To a Daughter -- The New Road -- Moon Over Squibnocket -- Keepers -- Hot Tea -- Marriage Poem -- After Rumi -- Love Song -- My Eyes your Eyes -- Fugue -- Dusk -- Midnight: Triadic Ghazal -- Just Another Darkening -- Resurrection -- Thaw -- Real Estate -- Infestation -- All City -- Cinema Verite -- Dance -- Careless Perfection -- Nature Lover's Lament -- Hungry as Dogs -- A Place to Eat -- Desperados -- Abiding Memento -- First Fever -- Daughter & Chair -- Carnival Food -- Carnival Mood -- Tattoo -- A Bad Year -- Here at Fifty -- Direction -- Rusted Tin -- The Eternal Light of Talk -- In Season -- New Strangers -- Beauty & Restraint -- Late -- Measures she has Taken -- Hoeg's Island -- Air, '56 -- Buena Vista Social Club -- Dinner for Two -- Bravura Lament -- Foreseeable Futures -- Homage to N.

ISBN

0375407332

LCCN

99015601

OCLC

ocm41278354

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries