Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Justice, Donald, 1925-2004.

Description

1. xxiii, 180 p.; 21 cm.

Contents

1. The Last Man -- Subtitle -- Statement with Rhymes -- Two Cities -- The Speakers -- Corsage -- The Inquiry -- The Situation Clarified -- Variations on a Theme by Joyce -- Praise to the Mind -- What the Spider Heard -- White Collar Ballad -- For My Daughter -- The Scene of the Crime -- For H.V. (1901-1927) -- June 1940 -- After the Trial -- The Party -- A Cornucopia for Daily Use -- Resort -- The Caterpillar and the Men from Cambridge -- On a Painting by Rousseau -- Aunt Elizabeth -- Early Winter -- To the North -- Scream as You Leave -- When the Lease Is Up -- Henry James at Newport -- Stale Weather -- Midnight -- Obituary -- Fugue -- Insectae Borinquenses -- The Forests -- The View of the Castle -- To a Contemporary -- Homage to Arthur Waley -- The City as Hero -- Lines for an Album -- The Smiles of the Bathers -- The Fall of the Magicians -- Eight Variations -- The Conversation in the Drawing Room -- The Contours of Fixation -- Moving Target -- The Patient is Rallying -- Report of the Meeting -- Robinson -- The Ambassadors -- Dynamite for Operas -- Sestina: Travel Notes -- Five Villanelles -- A Brief Introduction to the History of Culture -- Poem Instead of a Letter -- That Winter -- Abstracts of Dissertations -- Girl at Midnight -- Crime Club -- Xantha Street -- A Good Chord on a Bad Piano -- River Song -- The Heat in the Room -- The Bell from Europe -- The Doctor Will Return -- Year's End -- Death Under Glass -- Routes to Headquarters -- Poems 1947-1954 -- The Hourglass -- The Lives -- The Testimony of James Apthorp -- Round -- Turtle -- A Pastiche for Eve -- Return of the Ghost -- 1926 -- The Upstairs Room -- Guide to the Symphony -- Land's End -- Saratoga Ending -- Dog -- Testimonies -- Travels in North America -- La Vita Nuova -- Back -- Dead March -- The Locusts, the Plaza, the Room -- Weather for Pilgrims -- Interregnum -- Problems of a Journalist -- A Late History -- Aspects of Robinson -- The Clinic -- Speeches and Lyric for a Play -- The Beach in August -- Robinson at Home -- A Distance from the Sea -- A Salvo for Hans Hofmann -- The Darkness -- The Coming of the Plague -- The Furies -- Wet Thursday -- Equinox -- Relating to Robinson -- January -- Farrago -- The Base -- Colloquy -- The Umbrella -- Small Prayer -- To Build a Quiet City in His Mind -- To A Noisy Contemporary -- The Older Programs that We Falsified -- Place of Execution -- That Figure with the Moulting Beard -- The Bunyip -- First Anniversary -- Covering Two Years -- A Nameless Place -- The Exposed Reef -- Rites for Winter -- If This Room Is Our World -- The End of the Library -- Late Evening Song -- A Musician's Wife -- The Cats.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries