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Additional authors

1. McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018

Description

1. xiv, 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This collection offers selections from the seven books of poetry of an American poet who as a soldier during World War II helped liberate concentration camps and whose poems combine formal elegance with deep emotion and a concern for history.

Uniform title

1. Poems. Selections

Alternative title

1. Poems.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. American poetry > 20th century
3. Poetry

Genre/Form

1. poetry.
2. Poetry
3. Poésie.

Contents

1. From A Summoning of Stones, 1954. Double Sonnet -- Japan -- Samuel Sewall -- A Poem for Julia -- Christmas is Coming -- The Gardens of the Villa D'Este -- Alceste in the Wilderness -- From The Hard Hours, 1967. A Hill -- Third Avenue in Sunlight -- Tarantula, or, the Dance of Death -- The End of the Weekend -- Message from the City -- Behold the Lilies of the Field -- The Dover Bitch -- Three Prompters from the Wings -- The Vow -- Rites and Ceremonies -- A Letter -- The Seven Deadly Sins -- "More Light! More Light!" -- "It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It." -- From Millions of Strange Shadows, 1977. The Cost -- Black Boy in the Dark -- Green: An Epistle -- Somebody's Life -- A Birthday Poem -- Coming Home -- "Auguries of Innocence" -- Peripeteia -- After the Rain -- The Feast of Stephen -- The Odds -- Apprehensions -- The Ghost in the Martini -- "Gladness of the Best" -- From The Venetian Vespers, 1979. The Grapes -- The Deodand -- The Short End -- Still Life -- Persistences -- The Venetian Vespers -- From The Transparent Man, 1990. Curriculum Vitae -- Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos -- Terms -- Devotions of A Painter -- Destinations -- Meditation -- See Naples and Die -- Crows in Winter -- The Transparent Man -- The Book of Yolek -- From Flight Among the Tombs, 1996. From the Presumptions of Death -- Death Sauntering About -- Death the Archbishop -- Death the Poet -- Death the Painter -- Death the Whore -- Death the Film Director -- Death the Carnival Barker -- The Whirligig of Time -- Prospects -- La-Bas: A Trance -- Matisse: Blue Interior with Two Girls, 1947 -- Proust on Skates -- From The Darkness and the Light, 2001. Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love -- Mirror -- A Fall -- A Certain Slant -- Saul and David -- Despair -- Judith -- Look Deep -- Sacrifice -- The Ashen Light of Dawn -- The Road to Damascus -- Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven -- "The Darkness and the Light are Both Alike to Thee."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain