Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Ciaran Carson.

Author

Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019.

Publication

Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

137 pages; 25 cm

Contents

• An Early Bed -- The Holiday -- The Car Cemetery -- To A Married Sister -- Soot -- The New Estate -- Dresden -- Judgement -- Calvin Klein's Obsession -- Whatever Sleep It Is -- Belfast Confetti -- August 1969 -- Campaign -- Slate Street School -- Asylum -- Loaf -- 'Plains and mountains, skies ...' -- Snow -- 'Eleven horsemen ...' -- Ambition -- 'Darkness never flows ...' -- Hairline Crack -- Bloody Hand -- The Knee -- 'I've just put on this ...' -- Bed-Time Story -- 'Wild rough seas tonight ...' -- Hamlet -- Second Language -- Two to Tango -- Drunk Boat (after Rimbaud) -- The Ballad of HMS Belfast -- Eesti -- Letters from the Alphabet: D,H,K,L,M,O,S,U,Y,Z -- Graecum Est: Non Legitur -- Cave Quid Dicis, Quando, et Cui -- Labuntur et Imputantur -- Quod Erat Demonstrandum -- The Poet as Snow-Merchant (after Stefan Augustin Doinas) -- A Pair -- Opera: Delta, Oscar, Tango, Zulu -- The Sleeper in the Valley (after Rimbaud) -- On the Road (after Rimbaud) --
• Travellers (after Baudelaire) -- The Lid (after Baudelaire) -- O Happy Death (after Baudelaire) -- At the Sign of the Swan (after Mallarme) -- The Sonneteer (after Mallarme) -- The Maid of Brobdingnag (after Baudelaire) -- I Had a Life (after Baudelaire) -- The Dongless Bell (after Baudelaire) -- Beauty (after Baudelaire) -- Tib's Eve -- The Poppy Battle -- Salt of the Earth -- Nine Hostages -- The Rising of the Moon -- The Rising Sun -- Dark Rosaleen -- The Tailor's Twist -- Catmint Tea -- 1798 -- 1998 -- Sake -- Digitalis -- Sayers, or, Both Saw Wonder -- Crack -- Twelfth Day -- The Ay O'Haitch -- The Londonderry Air -- Fear -- Fuji Film -- Picador -- Mustard -- The Display Case -- The Groves of Blarney -- Banners -- Spraying the Potatoes -- Heart of Oak -- Envoy.

ISBN

• 1930630034 (cloth)
• 1930630026 (pbk.)

LCCN

00111853

OCLC

• ocm47185374
• SCSB-4270031

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries