Absences; new poems.
This new collection presents Tate's best work to date--a dramatic extension of the youthful energy that marked his earlier poems, now edges with the celebration of more sobering experience. They are poems of an extraordinary range: from simple lyricism to playful impudence to the coruscating su...
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Boston,
Little, Brown
[1972]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
| Series: | (An Atlantic Monthly Press book.)
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Table of Contents:
- Contagion
- Harm alarm
- Is there anything
- Breathing
- The distant orgasm
- The private intrigue of melancholy
- A guide to the Stone Age
- Brainchild
- The boy
- Hidden drives
- Lovelife on the Liffey
- Wait for me
- The delicate riders
- If you would disappear at sea
- My girl
- A friend told me.
- Absences.
- South End
- My great great etc. Uncle Patrick Henry
- Rustin Steel is driving the crew to the river
- Apology for eating Geoffrey Movius's hyacinth
- Finding an unmailed note in the attic
- As a child
- Museum of animated nature
- Deaf girl playing
- Two-hundred-and-one
- First lesson
- The blue canyon.
- The soup of Venus
- The immortals
- Teaching the ape to write poems
- The vacant lot
- The Buddhists have the ball field
- Man with wooden leg escapes prison
- End of a semester
- National Motor Inn
- Daisy's delirium
- Charles the big tunnel
- Entries
- Saint John of the Cross in prison
- For a dying philosopher
- The seeing-eye people
- A death to death
- Snuffing out a candle
- When it has done with us.