Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Anne Stevenson ; Andrew Motion, editor.

Author

Stevenson, Anne, 1933-2020.

Publication

[New York] : Library of America, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Motion, Andrew, 1952-

Description

xxii, 205 pages : portrait; 20 cm.

Summary

"Anne Stevenson's is a poetry of vivid sensuality and uncompromising emotional force, rich in observation of the natural world and exact in charting the pressures of public and private history. Distilled from the work of decades, this volume gives American readers the chance to rediscover a major American poet." "Anne Stevenson is the second recipient of the Neglected Masters Award established by The Poetry Foundation, and this volume is published in conjunction with that award."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• American poets project ; 26
• Neglected Masters Award ; 2

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• American poets project ; 26.
• Neglected Masters Award ; 2.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Note

• "Winner of the Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation"--Jacket.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes biographical information (p. 199-200) and index.

Contents

Selected Shorter Poems -- Living in America -- The Garden of Intellect -- Still Life in Utah -- Ann Arbor -- Sierra Nevada -- The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument -- Poem for a Daughter -- The Mother -- Siskin -- Generations -- Coming Back to Cambridge -- North Sea off Carnoustie -- By the Boat House, Oxford -- Ragwort -- The Minister -- Enough of Green -- Path -- Between -- The Circle -- The Sun Appears in November -- Meniscus -- The Price -- If I Could Paint Essences -- Small Philosophical Poem -- Ah Babel -- Swifts -- Himalayan Balsam -- The Fish Are All Sick -- In the Tunnel of Summers -- Waving to Elizabeth -- After the Fall -- Two Poems for Frances Horovitz -- Red Rock Fault -- Willow Song -- Dreaming of the Dead -- The Fiction Makers -- Making Poetry -- A Dream of Stones -- Trinity at Low Tide -- Salter's Gate -- Cold -- Washing the Clocks -- Politesse -- Bloody Bloody -- Black Hole -- Lost -- Journal Entry: Impromptu in C Minor -- Letter to Sylvia Plath -- The Other House -- Elegy -- When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye -- Where the Animals Go -- As I Lay Sleeping -- Saying the World -- Vertigo -- A Surprise on the First Day of School -- Arioso Dolente -- Moonrise -- Skills -- An Angel -- Granny Scarecrow -- Leaving -- On Going Deaf -- To witness pain is a different form of pain -- Postscriprum -- A Report from the Border -- Haunted -- Hearing with My Fingers -- A Marriage -- Washing My Hair -- Who's Joking with the Photographer? -- To Phoebe -- In the Weather of Deciduous Souls -- Stone Milk -- Before Eden -- The Enigma -- Orcop -- Inheriting My Grandmother's Nightmare -- Beach Kites -- Variations on a Line by Peter Redgrove -- Correspondences: A Family History in Letters.

ISBN

• 9781598530193 (alk. paper)
• 1598530194 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007941727

OCLC

• ocn213813694
• ocn218496250
• 218496250
• 213813694
• SCSB-5398618

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries