Research Catalog

Title

The fugitive self : new and selected poems / John Wheatcroft.

Author

Wheatcroft, John, 1925-

Publication

Wilkes Barre, Pa. : Etruscan Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

218 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Fugitive Self is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning forty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion. John Wheatcroft's work is seminal to understanding violence now and in the second half of the 20th century."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

New Poems -- Reply to a Personal -- On Borrowed Time -- Night Music after La Belle Epoque -- Waiting -- The Soul Changer -- Song of the Alhambra -- Soaking in History -- Unauthorized Version -- The Other Side of the Story -- Nativity Quintet -- i. A Merchant's Tale -- ii. Adoration of the Donkey: A Song without Words -- iii. Thief at the Nativity -- iv. Fathering -- v. Childbirth Song -- Accounting for Absence -- Lear at Dover -- Latin Lover -- An Irreverent Meditation on the End of Time -- Variation on a Theme of Wallace Stevens -- Wallace Stevens' Swan Song -- Over His Dead Body -- Wolves -- In Time of Torment -- Hands -- Reflection -- Fugitive Self -- "The readiness is all" -- Touchstones -- Man in a Cage -- "My father moved through dooms of love" -- Horehound and Fox Fur -- Beyond Words -- Day by Day -- Passage of a Painter -- Requiem for a Composer -- Sao-Min Kim Plays a Violin Sonata -- Far Away the Train-Birds Cry -- A la recherche du temps perdu -- Eros and Thanatos -- Dazzling -- from Random Necessities (1999) -- Blue Mushrooms -- Alfresco -- Love and War -- Bastards -- Christmas Eve -- My Father's Time and Mine -- On Becoming Orphaned -- Young Widow -- Hannah -- Hooked Ram -- Sign in the London Underground -- Organ Prelude -- The Caryatid -- Ballet Aleatoric -- On Business from Porlock -- from The Stare on the Donkey's Face (1990) -- Runagate -- Recreant at Winchester -- De Mowbray's Men Re-Consecrate a Church -- Village Church, Yorkshire -- Making Out the Stones -- Infidel in Rome -- Unbecoming in Italia -- The Second-Best Hotel in Chambery -- On the Cornish Coast -- The Cutting -- Oysters -- from Ordering Demons (1981) -- Blue Drive -- Seeing My Father Get the Evening Paper -- Drive Home -- Nullius Filius -- At a Certain Table in a Bar -- Lancelot Tonsured Walks the Field at Dover -- What Metaphor Exposes -- Pro Chaos -- Night Howl -- Ballet of the Little Crooked Leg -- Wanting To -- Maud Gonne to William Yeats -- from A Voice From the Hump (1977) -- The Return -- Ixion -- Gawain -- Beauty and the Beast -- Proem -- Rummage for My Brother -- Once by Seaside -- Entering Madame Bovary -- One-Way Conversation with Randall Jarrell -- Flower Pyre: When Roethke Died -- de Berryman's Posthumous Delusions -- from Prodigal Son (1967) -- Among the Avocado Trees -- Hitting a Pheasant on the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- Anathema: For the Bombers of Lambs -- Kamikaze -- Fulbright Student -- "Some say in ice" -- Emily Dickinson -- Meditation -- Gulls -- Fraternity -- Prodigal Son -- Self-Portrait on Mt. Pocono -- from Death of a Clown (1964) -- Death of a Clown -- Carousel -- Rachel on Long Island Sand Dune -- A Prayer for My Anguished Father -- Ancestor -- Cords -- I Know an Old Crone -- Bruce Mitchell Paints -- No Line Is Straight -- The Rollercoaster -- Anniversary Proclamation.

ISBN

• 9780979745096
• 0979745098

OCLC

• ocn261176596
• 261176596

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries