Research Catalog

Title

Urban myths : 210 poems : new & selected / John Tranter.

Author

Tranter, John E.

Publication

St. Lucia, Qld. : Univeristy of Queensland Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xiii, 321 p.; 20 cm.

Subject

• Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

After Holderlin -- The moment of waking -- The city, the tree -- The visit -- Kabul -- Rescue -- Whitey -- The plane -- The non-commercial traveller -- Mary Jane -- Machine -- Paint -- Balance -- Bestiary -- Ward five -- On the track of the attainable -- Red movie -- The Guadalcanal Motel -- Poem ending with a line by Rimbaud -- Compromise -- The alphabet murders -- Starlight -- The bus -- The Chicago Manual of Style -- Art -- Artefact -- The moated grange -- Ballistics -- I know a man who lives in the dark -- The doll -- The spy -- Position : poet -- The painting of the whole sky -- The blues -- 1968 -- By the pool -- At the laundromat -- Ode to Col Joye -- The un-American women -- The revolutionaries -- Leavis at the London Hotel -- Sartre at surfers' paradise -- Foucault at the Forest Lodge Hotel -- Enzensberger at 'Exiles' bookshop -- The wind -- The germ -- The great artist reconsiders the homeric simile -- A Jackeroo in Kensington -- Backyard -- Country Veranda -- North light -- Widower -- Debbie & Co -- Voodoo -- Fine arts -- The creature from the black lagoon -- High school confidential -- Stratocruiser -- Laminex -- Lufthansa -- On looking into the American anthology -- Shadow detail -- Parallel lines -- Having completed my fortieth year -- Boarding school -- Papyrus -- After the dance -- Haberdashery -- Poolside -- At the Newcastle Hotel -- Affairs of the heart -- Lullaby -- Dirty weekend -- La Pulqueria -- Breathless -- Journey -- At the Florida -- God on a bicycle -- Dark harvest -- Ariadne on Lesbos -- Days in the capital -- A marriage -- Falling -- Anyone home? -- The Romans -- Storm over Sydney -- Opus Dei -- North Woods -- Con's cafe -- At Naxos -- Two views of Lake Placid -- Snap -- Old Europe -- Box contaminant -- A plume of ash -- Chicken shack -- Cable chimp -- Bells under water -- Aurora -- The duck abandons Hollywood -- Neuromancing Miss Stein -- The howling twins -- Blackout -- Black leather -- Gallery -- Halogen -- Locket -- Miss Proust -- My story -- Off radar -- On the road -- Package tour -- Per Ardua ad Astra -- South farm -- Under the trees -- Lavender ink -- After Laforgue -- Brussels -- Address to the reader -- After Rilke -- Invitation to America -- On La Cienega -- Festival -- Night -- Harry's bar -- What the Cyclops said -- Where the boys are -- Notes from the late Tang -- The twilight guest -- Paid Meridian -- The green buick -- Moonshine Sonata -- Trastevere -- Radium -- In praise of sandstone -- Chinese poem, after Mark Ford -- Christopher Brennan -- Epitaphs -- See Rover Reach -- Grover leach -- Elegy i.m. M.J. -- The beach -- Five modern myths -- Three poems about Kenneth Koch -- Black sugar -- The new season's patterns -- Like advertising -- Rimbaud in Sydney -- The waiting room -- Amulet -- The seasons -- spring -- The seasons -- summer -- The seasons -- autumn -- The seasons -- winter -- Small animal poem -- The white hole paradox -- Two Haikus -- Two short poems, after Li Po -- Two poems for Mr. Stevens -- What mortal end -- Her shy banjo -- Fin de Siecle -- An American in Paris -- Benzedrine -- The master of the black stones -- Flying high -- Pussy willow -- Smaller women -- Transatlantic -- Under Tuscan skies -- Year dot -- The urn of loneliness -- At the Tomb of Napoleon -- Bats -- Care and feeding of a small poem -- Manikin de Vin -- On a noted vista -- A poet in the reading room -- Stage door -- Thistles -- Whisper -- Anguish -- Bottom of the harbour -- Deluge -- Departure -- Horticulture -- Lives -- Marinara -- Metro -- Movements -- Parade -- Pronto -- Royalties -- Scenes -- Shames -- Sorehead -- Story -- Subcontinent nocturne -- Villas -- Shadow of a doubt -- North by northwest -- Dark passage -- Girl in water -- Black and white -- The popular mysteries.

ISBN

0702235571 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006411931

OCLC

• 70123001
• SCSB-11071473

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library