Research Catalog

Title

Straw for the fire : from the notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63 / selected and arranged by David Wagoner.

Author

Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wagoner, David

Description

viii, 259 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Theodore Roethke died in 1963, leaving behind 277 spiral notebooks filled with poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialogue, quotes from other writers, commentary, and fugitive miscellany. Within these notebooks the Pulitzer prize-winner allowed his mind to rove freely, to play, plan, and experiment while moving from the practical to the transcendental, from the halting to the sublime. His friend, [fellow poet, and colleague] David Wagoner chose just twelve of these notebooks and distilled them into an energetic, wise, and rollicking collection that shows Roethke to be a truly phenomenal creative source in American poetry."--Back cover.

Subjects

• Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
• Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc

Genre/Form

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Note

• "A Lannan literary selection"--P. [4] of cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Straw for the fire (1953-62). -- Poetry: In the lap of a dream (1948-49) ; A nest of light (1948-49) ; The loveless provinces (1948-49) ; All the semblance, all the loss (1948-49) ; The stony garden (1949-50) ; The wrath of other winds (1949-50) ; In the bush of her bones (1949-50) ; The dark angel (1950-53) ; Love has me haunted (1950-53) ; The dance of the one-legged man (1951-53) ; Father-stem and mother-root (1951-53) ; The root of the wind (1951-53) ; Heart, you have no house (1951-53) ; The middle of a roaring world (1954-58) ; I sing other wonders (1954-58) ; Recall this heaven's light (1954-58) ; She took my eyes (1954-58) ; The plain speech of a crow (1954-62) ; In the large mind of love (1954-62) ; The things I steal from sleep (1954-62) ; Between the soul and flesh (1957) ; The mire's my home (1959-63) ; The desolation (1959-63) ; My flesh learned to die (1959-63) ; And time slows down (1960-63) ; The thin cries of the spirit (1959-63) ; My instant of forever (1959-63). -- Prose: All my lights go dark (1943-47) ; The cat in the classroom (1943-47) ; The turn of the wheel (1943-47) ; The poet's business (1943-47) ; Words for young writers (1948-49) ; The proverbs of purgatory (1948-49) ; I teach out of love (1949-53) ; First class (1950-53) ; The right to say maybe (1948-53) ; The hammer's knowledge (1954-58) ; From Roethke to Goethe (1954-58) ; The teaching of poetry (1954-58) ; These exasperations (1954-58) ; A psychic janitor (1959-63) ; The beautiful disorder (1954-63) -- About the author.

ISBN

• 1556592485 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781556592485

LCCN

^^2006019773

OCLC

• 70167612
• SCSB-10546877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library