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Beyond silence : selected shorter poems, 1948-2003

Title
Beyond silence : selected shorter poems, 1948-2003 / Daniel Hoffman.
Author
Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-2013.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003.

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Description
xi, 226 pages; 24 cm
Contents
  • The Poem -- In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin -- The Twentieth Century -- Flushing Meadows, 1939 -- The seals in Penobscot Bay -- Blood -- The Battle of Hastings -- A Special Train -- Crop-Dusting -- The Pursued -- The Victor -- Shaking the President's Hand -- A Historian -- In Memory of Lewis Corey -- The Princess Casamassima -- Power -- Violence -- Mean Street -- A Sidewalk Scene -- The City of Statisfactions -- Rats -- Egg -- Crack! -- Mother -- Ants -- A Riddle -- After God -- Aphrodite -- The Flutist's Breath Turns Reverie to Sound -- First Sight -- Musebaby -- It Cannot Come Because Desired -- Yours -- Night Fishing -- Alone -- A Marriage -- As I Was Going to Saint-Ives -- Reasons -- Who Was It Came -- Over the rim -- Another Border -- Ignorant of Source -- In the Beginning -- The Hill of Tara -- In That High House -- Burning Bush -- Folk Tale -- Ode to Joy -- Incubus -- An armada of thirty whales --
  • Cape Breton -- At Provincetown -- Icarus, Icarus -- That the Pear Delights Me Now -- The Larks -- The Clams -- Old Bug Up There -- The voice of the woodthrush, played at half speed -- Auricle's Oracle -- Shell -- Ephemeridae -- The Everlasting -- Exploration -- Safari -- Climbing Katahdin -- Eagles -- Before the Fall -- Blizzard -- A Meeting -- In Provence -- The Wastrel -- Moving among the Creatures -- Inviolable -- Signatures -- Identities -- O Personages -- Himself -- His Steps -- A Solitary -- He Was the First Who Had Returned -- The Last Arrival -- When My Wiser Brother -- The Way He Went -- The Companion -- A True Confession -- Vows -- A Stone -- Another Country -- Evidence -- The Tale-Teller -- Stop the Deathwish! Stop it! Stop! -- A Barn Burnt in Ohio -- The Cape Racer -- The Hermit of Cape Rosier -- At Don's Garage -- Old Reprobate -- Lines for Scott Nearing -- Scott Nearing's Ninety-Eighth Year --
  • Bob -- I Am the Sun -- Aubade -- Summer Solstice -- Singing -- The Sounds -- The Gift of Tongues -- Speech -- The Peaceable Kingdom -- On the Industrial Highway -- The Center of Attention -- The Great American Novel -- Possession -- A Dreamer -- A Dread -- A Woe -- The Summerhouse -- Evening -- Brainwaves -- Thought I Was Dying -- A Resurrection -- Emblems -- Fables -- On First Looking into Lattimore's Homer -- Poe's Tomb -- Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge -- Snatches for Charles Ives -- Mark Twain, 1909 -- Concordance -- Instructions to a Medium, to be transmitted to the shade of W. B. Yeats ... -- Her Obedient Servant -- Words for Dr. Williams -- The Translator's Party -- A Letter to W. H. Auden -- The Sonnet -- Delusions -- Lines for Jack Clemo -- High Society -- Summer -- A New Birth -- Treasure -- A Visitation -- In the Pitch of Night -- A Comfort -- Devotion -- Literature -- In the Graeco-Roman Room --
  • First Flight -- The Finish -- Saturday -- Owed to Dejection -- Breathing Purely -- At Evening -- Going -- Who We Are -- Called Back -- A Witness.
ISBN
  • 0807128600 (alk. paper)
  • 0807128619 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002034090
OCLC
  • ocm50669484
  • SCSB-4342071
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries