Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvi, 436 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. "Irving Feldman's body of work exhibits his mastery of language from the biblical to the conversational, his Yiddish flair for the comic, his profound social insight and lucidity. He writes about everything from the Coney Island days of his childhood and his bohemian years in postwar New York to the art of Picasso and George Segal, from the Holocaust to its aftermath." "The gathering of poems displays Feldman's entire career in all its variety and passion, and confirms his place among the great poets of our time."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform title

1. Poems. Selections

Alternative title

1. Poems.

Subject

1. Poets, American > 20th century

Contents

1. The prophet -- Non-being -- Arabian night -- A poet -- Goya -- The lost language -- Prologue -- Artist and model -- "Portrait de femme" -- In time of troubles -- The messengers -- The double -- The return -- Scene of a summer morning -- The Pripet Marshes -- To the six million -- Song -- Magic papers -- The word -- Psalm -- Colloquy -- Girl singing -- Dressing Hornpout -- Four passages -- Dunkerque 1951 -- The father -- The heir -- Reredos showing the assumption into heaven of Frank O'Hara -- Seeing red -- The warriors and the idiots -- Night and the maiden -- Elegy for a suicide -- To waken you with your name -- As fast as you can -- The Titanic -- My Olson elegy -- Hump -- The jumping children -- Morton's dream -- The marvel was disaster -- X -- Birth day -- The party -- Rue Git-le-Coeur -- The tenor -- After the flight from Rockaway -- Our leaders -- Meeting in Lyon -- A balcony in Barcelona -- Six sailors -- Bembu a su amada -- To S., underground -- Waking words -- The handball players at Brighton Beach -- Was. weasel. isn't. is -- Stanzas : the master's voice -- Beethoven's bust -- Leaping clear -- An era of laughter -- The prodigal -- The good life -- Who's who (and what's what) -- Antonio, Botones -- The secret work -- Egg -- Father and son -- The thief of poetry -- Avenue of the Americas -- The city and its own -- A player's notes -- A tale of a needler and a nailer -- The golden schlemiel -- This way to the egress -- Sons et Lumieres -- The gift of life -- The thousand nights and the one night -- The ecstasies -- Three tales -- Family history -- Cloud of brightness -- Rowing on the Acheron -- The human circle -- From Elegies -- Ever after -- The tortoise -- Millions of strange shadows -- The bathers -- They -- A crone's tale -- Eberheim -- The biographies of solitude -- In Old San Juan -- The salon of famous babies -- Beauty -- To what's-her-name -- Albert Feinstein -- The drowned man -- Teach me, dear sister -- Just another smack -- Fresh air -- The all-stars -- Read to the animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA -- Conversation on a yam -- Elena -- The memorable -- The epiphanies -- Happiness -- The grand magic theater finale -- Talking to Fernando -- All of us here -- Oh, it's all so -- Or this might be Oafland -- Oh, here and there -- Of course, we would wish -- They were not alive -- Or perhaps it's really theater -- The bystander at the massacre -- The whirlwind we wouldn't enter -- Surely they're just so large -- Native soil, we say -- Dust, pallor, drabness -- Alone, alive in a tomb -- Lovely times, heroic -- - It's obvious obvious -- The light that took the snapshot -- Simple outlines, human shapes -- Stretched out at length -- This couple strolling here -- Did they love one another? -- They say to us -- Our father -- River -- An Atlantiad -- The judgment of Diana -- Summer's sublet -- The call -- The flight from the city -- Art of the Haiku -- The dream -- The life and letters -- Immortality -- Street scene -- The runners -- Warm enough -- Only then -- Story -- The affair -- Variations on a theme by May Swenson -- The little children of Hamelin -- Malke Toyb -- The knot -- In the manger -- Good morning America -- Outrage is anointed by levity, or two laureates a-lunching -- No big deal -- In theme park America -- The celebrities -- Interrupted prayers -- West Street -- The girfriend -- Even in Eden -- She knows -- Widow -- After empires -- In the mental ward -- Poems of the Old Avant-Garde -- Adventures in the postmodern era -- WWI (writing while under the influence) -- Terminal laughs -- Kiss and tell -- Small talk for a sage -- How wonderful -- Fragment -- The recognitions -- Voluptas -- "Sono un poeta... Scrivo" -- Beautiful false things -- Solange mistral -- Testing the waters -- These memoirs -- Laura among the shades -- Lives of the poets -- Wisdom (not for beginners) -- Honors! prizes! awards! etc.! -- Oedipus host -- Desiring power where surrender failed -- The switch -- Tantrum -- Of this and that, and the other, and the fall of man -- Cartoons -- Words out of place -- The lowdown -- Joker -- Heavenly muse -- Les grandes passions manquees -- Bad brunch -- Episode -- Bust-up -- City of good neighbors blues -- They say and they repeat -- The parting -- You know what I'm saying? -- Funny bones, or Larry Dawn's 1001 nights in Condolandia -- The retirement -- Praising opens -- For J.M., his poems -- Speed of words -- Dance in the dark -- Briseis -- Came to nothing -- Poem with refrain -- Say pardon -- Fifteen minutes -- Chaos theory, or karmic chutzpah -- State of the union -- The needy rich are always with us -- Ideologue -- Don't you admire me? -- [Sic] Transcript Gloria, or the body politician -- When the lion dies -- Gigsburg -- The return of the repressed -- Happening -- The interruption -- Prometheus at fourteen -- Old ivy and arsenic -- Man with blue catarrh -- The brother -- Culprit conscience -- The weakest hands seize the heaviest ax -- Arslan & Arpad : on the question of craft -- To a grave, unquietly -- Old wife tale -- Versions of Proteus.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Includes indexes.