Research Catalog

Title

Late poems, 1968-1993 : attitudinizings verse-wise, while fending for one's selph, and in a style somewhat artificially colloquial / Kenneth Burke ; edited by Julie Whitaker, David Blakesley.

Author

Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.

Publication

Columbia : University of South Carolina, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whitaker, Julie, 1945-
• Blakesley, David.

Description

xxvii, 228 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Uniform Title

Studies in rhetoric/communication.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Julie Whitaker -- Introduction : Kenneth Burke, word-man / David Blakesley -- An eye-poem for the ear, with prose introduction, glosses, and after-words ("eye-crossing - from Brooklyn to Manhattan") -- A count-in -- Statements of attitude -- Vietnam -- Histories - with or without rhyme -- Major lobotomy -- A juxtaposition -- On his 'scutcheon : Neanmoins -- Towards freedom -- [Oh, she wasn't very pretty] -- Her will -- An aging versifier to his verses -- Three poems of abandonment -- One more autumnal -- An anti-Pentecostal deposition -- [How could those times be now so wholly gone] -- [What in God's name can I do with me] -- The future can never have been different than it was -- Out of backwards sidewise towards fromwards -- On climbing to an over-all - which then to come back down from -- Apostrophe, address unknown -- To any author, however ancient, however great -- Burking the issue -- Invictus -- Mind and body - or some such -- Im Empfang war der Anfang -- A profile -- Shop talk -- Sick mind in slightly less sick body -- Further shop talk -- An old man's spring song -- Petitioning, of a sort -- Towards total gallantry -- Brain-storm -- A batch of virgins ... -- Advice to the young -- S*l*nc* -- Minority reports -- [Suave power of persuasion] -- High estate -- To the apprentice -- Ms. Universe -- Steps along the way -- Mother earth -- A kind of pilgrimage -- In behalf of precision -- The rebel -- On the other hand -- A valentine -- Libido, the transformations of -- On forfeiture -- [To praise is to love] -- [They can put a man on the moon] -- 7/13/72 -- On giving thanks (XI/22/73) -- Owing to the dialectic of things -- [With the / the second fall] -- Social justice -- Occam's razor -- But for these lucky accidents -- Genre portraits -- Local talent -- The Amazon -- The virgin Amazon is to become a mother -- Getting and giving, the ins and outs of -- Routine for a stand-up comedian -- The purloined letter -- A diagnostician -- I never told you, pap -- To a darling grandchild -- Old-fashioned apostrophe -- Rented rooms -- Summer now gone, only the insects sing -- The night after Christmas, '76 -- Lines in search of a title -- Data for further study -- A gallantry -- Three phases of womanhood -- Essence and existence -- Alone, lonesome, a loner / remembering -- On all our having lived -- On faring Fo(u)rth -- Anent our ultimate duplicity -- Passing thoughts, of a pious infidel -- Invocation for a convocation -- A diarism -- To do with mirror-images -- A further epistolation -- My distant uncle Charlie -- On giving up the ghost -- Nocturne, with noise -- As with an-one who could "borrow" something -- Mystic moment in reverse -- To a nice girl who no longer is -- Epic similes -- More epic similes (in a non-heroic age) -- Some not-so epic similes -- Tributes of an oldster to his dearling Cynthevieve -- Formal invocation -- The divine af/inflatus -- An invocation in principle -- An Ovid, in exile -- A nostos in November -- Always face reality -- Peace by pacification -- [Out of the cavern of silence] -- On and off the record -- Advice for accountants -- A December devotion -- [I remember an one] -- Epoch simile -- Spring -- An oldster's apostrophe -- An epistolation -- Now that the tide -- A clima(c)tic situation -- All I want -- A critical load, beyond that door, or before the ultimate confrontation, or when thinking of deconstructionist structuralists, or a hermeneutic fantasy -- A reminisce (1979) -- Belated entrance -- A solemnity -- An idealization -- Thoughts to an octogenarian in transit -- Creativity - awoke -- Heroics (query) -- A Delphic (m)utterance -- Lines suggested (by the spiritual, "same train") -- In retrospective prospect -- A ritual of thanksgiving -- Flowerishes -- Quinquains -- Quinquains : quequessi, quaint quinquains -- Thoughts on an incident in Grand Central Station -- A quasi-finale, owing to the added line -- To aitch and wordsward -- Salutes and salutes -- Thoughts of the Chicago convention -- Evil to him who evil thinks -- On the occasion of a solstitial night in December -- Bemus Point, Chautauqua, circa 1914 -- Thoughts on music, softly piped into a place of business -- The benefactor -- A case -- One (twenty-hour) day's work VII/21-22/74 -- An odd lady -- "White house says tapes are Nixon's property" -- Anent line from first continental Congress (1774) - on new ten-cent bicentennial stamp -- Each day new - born to what? -- On steering the middle course and not rocking the boat -- On the slope of sorrow-hollow, autumnally ablaze.

ISBN

157003589X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005006700

OCLC

• OCM58457009
• SCSB-5218845

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries