Collected Poems 1939-1989 - Hardcover

Smith, William Jay

9780684191676: Collected Poems 1939-1989

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684191679 ISBN 13: 9780684191676

Publisher: Scribner, 1990

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Poems from each period of the author's career deal with nature, travel, the past, myths, love, art, and mortality

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Review:

3 For 25
Abruptly All The Palm Trees Rose Like Parasols
Academic Procession
After The Hurricane
American Primitive
The Angry Man
The Antimacassar And The Ottoman
The Arrow
At Delphi
At The Terminal
At The Tombs Of The House Of Savoy
Au Tombeau De Marechal Pet-de-nain
Autumn
Bachelor's-buttons
Ballad From Bedlam
The Barber
Barber, Wartime
Bay-breasted Barge Bird
Chrysanthemums
The Closing Of The Rodeo
Columbus Circle Swing
Convoy
Cupidon
Dachshunds
Dark Valentine
Dark, Dark, Dark
Dead Snake
Death Of A Jazz Musician
The Descent Of Orpheus
The Diver
The Diving Bell
Don Giovanni In Campagna
Dream
The Dressmaker's Workroom
Elegy
Elegy
Elegy For A Young Actor
Epigrams: Poet
Epigrams: Critic
Epigrams: Lady Biographer
Epitaphs: A Greenskeeper
Epitaphs: A Lawyer
Epitaphs: A Small Dog
Epitaphs: A Stripper
Epithalamium In Olive Drab
Evening At Grandpoint
The Farm
A Few Minutes Before Sunset
Fisher King
Fishing For Albacore
Flight Of The One-eyed Bat
The Floor And The Ceiling
For A Deaf Angora Cat
Funeral
Galileo Galilei
Gardens
The Girl In Glass
A Green Place
He Will Not Hear
Hotel Continental
Hull Bay, St. Thomas
The Idiot Below The El
In Memoriam Wallace Steven
Independence Day
The Inhabitants Of Atlantis
Interior
Italian Song
Journey To The Dead Sea
Journey To The Interior
Lachrymae Christi
The Lady In Orange County
Letter
Light
Lion
Litany For A Rainy Night
A Locket For Emily Dickinson
London
Lovebirds
The Lovers
Marcel Proust
Marine
Marth'a Vineyard
The Massacre Of The Innocents
Memorial Day Morning Song
Miserere
Morels
Morning At Arnheim
Mourning Song
Movies For The Troops
Mr. Smith
Nightwood
Northern Lights
A Note On The Vanity Dresser
Nukuhiva
O Love, O Love, These Oceans Vast
An Observation
Of Islands
Old Men On The Bench
On Parting
On The Death Of A Poet's Infant Son Michael Jasper Gioia
On The Edge
On The Islands Which Are Solomon 's
Orpheus
A Parable
The Park In Milan
A Pavane For The Nursery
The Peacock Of Java
Persian Miniature
Petits Chevaux: The Twenties, I
Petits Chevaux: The Twenties, Ii
The Piazza
A Picture Of Her Bones
Pidgin Pinch
Plain Talk
The Players
Poem Near Pearl Harbor
Processional
Quail In Autumn
Random Generation Of English Sentences Or, Revenge Of Poets
Rear Vision
Reflections
Riddles: 1
Riddles: 2
Riddles: 3
Riddles: 4
Riddles: 5
Robert Frost: The Road Taken
A Room In The Villa
A Sculptor, Welding
Sitting Bull In Serbia
Slave Bracelets
Snow
Song For A Country Wedding
Still Life
Summertime
The Tall Poets
The Tempest
The Ten
Three
The Tin Can
Tragedy And Comedy
The Traveler's Tree
A Trip Across America
Tulip
A Tune For The Teletype
Two And One
The Typewriter Bird
Venice In The Fog
Villanelle
Vincent Van Gogh
The Vision
Wedding Song
What Train Will Come?
Where The Rivers Meet
Wild Country
Winter Morning
The Woman On The Porch
The Wooing Lady
Words By The Water
The World Below The Window
The Young Lovers
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Library Journal:

This is a satisfying retrospective of a major American poet. A former Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Smith has had a lifelong love affair with the lyric. Unabashedly musical, he grounds the reader in memorable detail: a willow in winter is "a frozen harp," a tulip "a slender goblet wreathed in flame." Smith's formal, witty style lends itself to the all-but-forgotten arts of light and occasional verse. But the themes of love and mortality are ever-present and reach fruition in the moving later poems. A love poem, "Venice in the Fog," concludes: "The room is all pomegranate and gold; the fog clears--parting as if for the marriage of Venice with the sea--/ And all that could not be seen is seen, all that was imagined, is, all that was lost, found." Recommended.
- Kathleen Norris, Lemmon P.L., S.D.
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