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Title

Taking Leave : Poems / David Jaffin.

Author

Jaffin, David, 1937-

Publication

Bristol : Shearsman Books, 2014.

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Description

397 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

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Contents

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She -- The gifts of -- Sunday morn -- Interviewed -- Mirrored -- When Terstee (for Thomas) -- Who maintain -- Prose never -- A Tightness of word -- For Rosemarie' -- A "Judaic-Christian culture"? -- The god of -- Christ -- Suddenly -- Winter rain -- Shostakovich' -- Corot' -- Our lithely -- Fra Angelico' (for Chung) -- The Washerwoman (Chamisso) -- New Years Eve -- Novalis as -- Heine and Eichendorff -- As a Student -- Why celebrate -- Do faces -- The mannequin' -- Does the -- One could al -- A winter -- The picture -- Late afternoon (2) -- a). Late after -- b). Late after -- A motionless -- He had the -- J.C. Bach -- Ours an age -- A voice out- -- For Rosemarie -- Moon-resolv -- Wishing the -- Rigel' -- Those darkly -- When with age -- 2nd Commandment (Moses) -- If the idea -- Birnbaum -- A dreary -- For Rosemarie -- Desert-feel -- The eternal -- White tulips -- Beach-comb -- "Money isn't everything" -- Why did -- For Neil -- Wild flower -- Those Friday -- Sleep sus -- Second-rate -- So lost in -- World War I' -- That baby' -- Poems from Florida -- Inhabiting -- Old-timers -- Good-doers -- Success-story -- F.D. -- A lone -- Rock-sound -- A low-tide -- Quiet-sound -- The eternal -- These chronic -- Bicycling -- Walking the -- Palm- -- Snakes -- Lizard -- Personing -- Flat sand -- Alligator- -- On the beach- -- A sparkling -- Whisper -- Shostakovich' -- Tulips -- Night and -- This oncom -- Self-pity' -- "Try to see it my way" -- Young ladie -- Fatherly -- Always on the (for George) -- Now these -- Wood -- The palm -- With the -- Seen-it-all -- They knew -- Pelican -- The great -- Late after -- His over- -- This night -- For Michael -- Admiring a -- The pains -- Still-life -- The increas -- Some poet -- Even the -- The length -- Not even -- If body soul -- A sparrow -- G.D. -- The sea -- The calm -- A fence' -- If eye -- American -- Schuffling -- Sand-smooth -- A birth in -- X-rays -- Pepper -- Les Jeux sont fait (Sartre) -- Flat sand -- Spaces be -- They tried -- A swarm -- Are cultur -- Here with -- A wake -- Ships-at- -- Garrison -- Rhetori -- Old men' -- Something -- It's -- That giant -- Owl's -- Stella (for R.P.) -- Full-length -- Low-tide -- Window -- Death still -- Leaves fall -- In memory W.W. -- Royal Palm -- Darknesses -- He fished -- Are each -- Caged -- A dutiful -- The giant -- Are we the -- He kept-up- -- The white e -- Walking with -- Keep your eye -- Little girl -- Painful -- Pelican out- -- Is it describ -- The eternal -- She chang -- Monoton -- They never -- A work-of- -- In the har -- The waltz (Dvorak's 7th) -- The eternal -- She so bod -- When the -- Are people -- Back again -- Achille -- Do the aging -- Steady-ground -- Ship-of-fool -- If Columbus -- If as Leroy -- Origins -- Rape-culture -- Birds of a -- 25 years -- Digging-down -- If we con -- Dedicat -- From a long -- Are all our -- Life's -- Does time -- Poetry at -- Animal -- For Rosemarie -- Open-ending -- The impress -- The eternal -- He sang so -- The same language -- Discarded -- Can we as -- Transcient -- Pelican -- Sand impress -- Only the in -- Some small -- The daught -- When word -- Gerald Manley (for Warren) -- Sand-distan -- He called -- An uncommon -- Old-timer -- Who speak -- In what God -- Games (8) -- a). 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Annunication -- (Paolo Veneziano) -- b). St. Francis and bishop saint (Fra Angelico) -- c). St. Andrew (Masaccio) -- d). Coronation of the Virgin (Fabriano) -- e). Annunciation (Dieric Bouts) -- f). Slain Lion and Faun -- (Cranach) -- g). Portrait of a Halberdier -- (Pontormo) -- h). Woman and Boy (De Hooch) -- i). Bridge with a sluice (Ruisdael) -- j). Woman in blue reading a letter (Vermeer) -- k). Girl with gold-trimmed cloak (Rembrandt) -- l). Two watermills ... (Ruisdael) -- m). The Virgin and St. John (German 1420) -- n). The Nativity (Fabriano) -- o). Christ in Majesty -- (French 1188) -- p). Portrait of Barbara Kissen (1544) -- Plane -- L.A.'s -- For C.F. -- Some women -- His rosy -- Winter -- That specifi -- This deeply -- For C.M. -- A life of co -- Snowed- -- Death can' -- "She always -- He wrote anon -- All-of-us -- Shostakovich -- Freedom-spaces -- String Quintet (Bruckner) (4) -- a). As if the -- b). Bruckner -- c). It began by -- d). 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ISBN

• 9781848614253
• 184861425X

OCLC

899244690

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library