Research Catalog

Title

Five seasons of obsession : new & selected poems / Ned O'Gorman.

Author

O'Gorman, Ned, 1929-2014.

Publication

New York : Books & Co., [2001], ©2001.

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Details

Description

xvi, 245 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Faith > Poetry
• Nature > Poetry
• Love poetry

Note

• Poems.

Contents

• The Aunt -- The Swing -- A Description of the Sea for Lena Lenzi Who Has Never Seen It -- The Kiss -- Agamemnon as Arcady -- An Art of Poetry -- Two Homilies -- An Incident Early in the World's History -- Myth -- Hero -- L'Annunciazione -- On Saint Theresa's Difficulty in Keeping Her Feet on the Ground -- On Turning the Page of a Jeweled Book -- The Complaint of a Young Priest -- The Tree House -- I Am a Falcon, Hooded ... -- A Poem in a Time of Deepest Pondering -- To the Post Who Concurred in Dragons -- Paolo Learns Gravity at Twelve O'Clock Noon -- Two Visions -- Adam before His Mirror -- A Poem of Paula and a Poem to Ned -- A Movement of Peoples -- A Reflection on the Paraclete -- The Death of a Poor Man -- Spring -- The Summer -- The Ear in Autumn: An Instruction for the Wild Sara -- Winter -- Adam's Hymn to His Body -- Great Grandfather, Clam Diggers and Homer -- Two Poems on the Creation of a Statue of a Maenad -- Through the Steel Haze --
• The Tent, the Song, the Sign, the Element -- The Boyhood of Nguyen Van Vinh -- Johanna, the Big Cow -- Webbed, Yellow-Billed and Aquamarine -- The Toad with the Blind Eye -- Vegetable-Life -- A Child of Light, a Child of Dark -- Counsels to a Benedictine Novice -- A Rectification of the Lyric -- Two Holy Incidents -- The Sea - East Hampton -- The Heretic and the Dancer -- Hunting Hawks in Ethiopia -- Corn, Wine and Oil -- The Virgin's House -- The Dark Dialogue -- As It Was Then It Will Not Be Now -- The Burning Bush -- The Architect Speaks to the World -- Written on the Occasion in Cairo When a Man Rode through Heavy Traffic on a Bicycle Carrying on His Shoulder a Pane of Plate Glass Five Feet Square -- The Black Lady -- The Teacher -- A Beauty Meditates on Beauty -- In Honor of the Mother of God -- Stonegrave, Yorkshire -- To the Memory of Lydia Hoffman -- To Bernard the Huntress -- Paolo Climbing Down through a Tree -- The Memorable Thing about Love -- The Blue Shutter --
• The Prayer of a Friend Whose Loves Are Sorrows -- Toward You I Fall -- Looking Upward at a Waterford Glass Chandelier -- The Harvesters' Vase -- Plenitude -- A Conversation between Willa Muir, Rudolph Nureyev, and Ned O'Gorman about Excess -- The House of Victoria -- Signs -- The Galilean Light -- The Paralytic -- Hands -- To X Who Never Existed Except in Reality -- Haircutting -- At the Tomb of Ha'ari -- The Donkey -- The Eden of the Vegetables -- Color -- The Horse -- Nine Prayers to the Trinity to be Sung by the Nuns of Regina Laudis at Matins -- On Reform -- The Mud Bird -- A Philosophy -- The Metaphysician -- Sandcastle -- The Resurrection Day of a Brown Bear -- To Sister Ann on the Occasion of Her Being a Nun for One Day -- Drunk on the Lord's Wine -- The Eagle -- When I Would Love and Cannot Love -- I Bronzi di Riace: Threnody for a Poet Who Died After She Had Seen Them -- The Cave -- Some Thoughts of a Monk in the Cloister of Vietri Sul Mar --
• Peace, after Long Madness -- Biting Down on Fish -- This Alchemy -- Examinations into the Maniacal Self -- A Journey -- A Dream: Barrington Rhode Island -- How to Put Out a Fire -- The English Poet's French Lover -- The Bather -- Panther -- Sitting There -- The Vessel of Light -- This Great Vat of Sense -- States of Mind -- Objets de la vie de tous les jours -- Fulco di Verdura: A Vanity -- Tulips -- The Eyes of Shetland Ponies -- Ram -- She Had Seen It First in the Sky -- Rubens Peale's Glasses -- Three Poems for Jane Howe of Red Horse Farm: Alexander -- Three Poems for Jane Howe of Red Horse Farm: Cones of the Cedar of Lebanon -- Three Poems for Jane Howe of Red Horse Farm: Cook -- Portrait of a Lady in Yellow -- Poems upon Poems -- Wittgenstein Reads Finnegans Wake in Provence: A Pauline Reflection -- Adopt a Visibility Sight -- Poems on a State of Final Distraction -- Sassetta in Vermont -- The Photo Shoot -- Proust Dying -- The Sleeping Lifeguard --
• I Have Thoughts about the Density of Mountains -- The Green Trumpet -- The Sound of the Launching of a Thousand Ships -- The Mount Athos Poems -- The Building that the Body Is -- The Rainbow -- Whew! -- Three Poems for Nicos Stravroulakis -- Too Hot, Too Hot -- An Ecstasy: Bernini in Mind -- Dreams Erotic, Dreams Not -- Love -- After Birth -- These Tumultuous, These Erratic, These Crazy Waters -- When I Had Thought of Fire -- Expenses -- A Spiritual Experience -- Desire -- Swans in the Dark -- Rounding It Out, Paring Down, Letting Go -- Les situations nettes -- Aber wozu dann dies komplizierte ding? -- Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances -- The Five Seasons of Obsession.

ISBN

1885586558

LCCN

2001131204

OCLC

• ocm47905499
• SCSB-4255311

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries