Research Catalog

Title

This scribe, my hand : the complete poems of Ben Belitt.

Author

Belitt, Ben, 1911-

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xii, 222 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• This volume brings together a lifetime's achievement by one of America's outstanding poets of the twentieth century. Though his earliest poems were published more than sixty years ago, Ben Belitt's works in sum are likely to strike readers today with the force of unprecedented encounter. A poet of abundance and sometimes carnivalesque riotousness, Belitt also calls to mind the intensity and eruptiveness of Hopkins, the double passion for the infinite and the empirical exemplified by Neruda, and the lustrous word-painting associated with Keatsian Romanticism. But as these diverse predecessors suggest, Belitt is altogether an original, whose derivation is as multiple as his figuration.
• His concerns range from the appalled enthrallment with violence and disorder to the rage to learn how one can live in chance and confront the mandates of mortality.

Uniform Title

Poems

Alternative Title

Poems

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Thoreau on Paran Creek -- Voyage of the Beagle -- March Willows -- Sumac -- Walker -- Annunciation to Joseph -- Possessions -- This Rock -- Brutto Tempo: Bellagio -- Esmiss Esmoor -- Graffiti -- Crossing the Ice: Acapulco -- The Bathers: A Triptych 1. Marat's Assassination (David) -- The Bathers: A Triptych 2. The Swimming Hole (Eakins) -- The Bathers: A Triptych 3. Woman Bathing (Degas) -- Lily Briscoe: A Failed Painting -- Displaced Person -- Xerox -- Kites: Ars Poetica -- Swan Lake -- The Repellant -- Double Poem of the World's Burning 1. "Ah, Sunflower!" -- Double Poem of the World's Burning 2. Glare: Atlacomulco -- The Guanajuato Mummies -- An Orange in Merida -- From the Firehouse -- Cat's Cradle -- A Suicide: Paran Creek.

ISBN

• 0807123234 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807123242 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98042512^

OCLC

39763466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library