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Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

Autor William Meredith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1997
Winner, 1997 National Book Award for Poetry

A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810150713
ISBN-10: 0810150719
Pagini: 231
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly

Notă biografică

William Morris Meredith, Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.

Cuprins

Foreword

From Love Letter from an Impossible Land (1944)
A Kodiak Poem
In Memoriam Stratton Christensen
Navy Field
Myself, Rousseau, and a Few Others
A Metaphysical Sonnet
Winter Song
Quartet in F Major
Notes for an Elegy
June: Dutch Harbor
For Air Heroes
Airman's Virtue
Ten-Day Leave

From Ships and Other Figures (1948)
Envoi
Carrier
Transport
Battlewagon
'Do Not Embrace Your Mind's New Negro Friend'
A Birthday Exercise
Perhaps the Best Time
In a Copy of Yeats' Poems

From The Open Sea and Other Poems (1958)
A Major Work
In Memory of Donald A. Stauffer
The Open Sea
Sonnet on Rare Animals
Notre Dame de Cartres
Starlight
On Falling Asleep by Firelight
The Illiterate
Sunrise with Crows
A View of the Brooklyn Bridge
Godchildren
Miniature
An Account of a Visit to Hawaii
The Fishvendor
Original Aversions
The Fear of Beasts
The Chinese Banyan
Bachelor
Homage to a Rake-Hell
Two Japanese Poems
Pastoral
Thoughts on One's Head (IN PLASTER, WITH A BRONZE WASH)
Rus in Urbe
Letter from Mexico (VERA CRUZ, 10 FEBRUARY, 186-)
A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall

From The Wreck of the Thresher (1963)
The Wrech of the Thresher (LOST AT SEA, APRIL 10, 1963)
Orpheus
On Falling Asleep to Birdsong
For His Father
Roots
An Old Field Mowed for Appearances' Sake
An Assent to Wildflowers
For Guillaume Apollinaire
Five Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (TRANSLATIONS)
Fables about Error
The Couple Overhead
The Ballet
Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
About Poetry
The Preponderance
An Old Photograph of Strangers 
Consequences

From Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems (1970)
Winter Verse for His Sister
Waking Dream about a Lost Child
Fledglings
Walter Jenks' Bath
Poem about Morning
Effort at Speech
Hydraulics
About Opera
Dalhousie Farm
Whorls
In Memory of Robert Frost
Earth Walk
Last Things

From Hazard, the Painter (1975)
Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
Hazard's Optimism
Music
Wholesome
Plitics
Where He's Staying Now
Squire Hazard Walks
Look at Me! Look at Me!
His Plans for Old Age
At the Natural History Museum
Rhode Island
The Ghosts of the House
Nausea
Nixon's the One
February 14
Winter: He Shapes Up

From The Cheer (1980)
The cheer
Winter on the River
Two Masks Unearthed in Bulgaria
Freezing
Recollection of Bellagio
Country Stars
Homage to Paul Mellon, I. M. Pei, Their Gallery, and Washington City
On Jenkins' Hill
A Firescreen at Mount Vernon
A Mild-Spoken Citizen Finally Writes to the White House
Accidents of Birth
At the Confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado
Poem
The Seasons' Difference
For Two Lovers in the Year 2075 in the Canadian Woods
Memoirs
Give and Take
Parents
My Mother's Life
Ideogram
Grievances
Here and There
Remembering Robert Lowell
Dreams of Suicide
In Loving Memory of the Late Author of Dream Songs
John and Anne
Dying Away
The Revenant
Crossing Over
Not Both
REM Sleep
Of Kindness
Examples of Created Systems

From Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (1987)
The American Living Room: A Tract
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
The Three Sorts of Violence
Among Ourselves
In the Rif Mountains
Tree Marriage
Talking Back (To W. H. Auden)
A Couple of Trees
What I Remember the Writers Telling Me When I Was Young

New Poems
Of Possessions, in Winter
His Students
At the Prado
Journal Entry (With the Udalls, June 1968)
Jouranl Entry (April 1969, Villa Serbelloni)
A Vision of Good Secrets
The Quarrel
'In the Middle of the Long Friendship'
Poem to Me
Housed (A Report on a Visiting Dog)
English Accounts
Grace

A Note about the Author

Recenzii

"For the past 45 years [Meredith] has looked generously and hard at our common human world. . . . William Meredith's work suggests that we can recognize the hardest truths about ourselves and still live in the world." --<i>New York Times Book Review</i>

"When you finish this book by Meredith, you have a strong sense of the man who wrote it, of a life well-lived." --<i>Poetry</i>

Descriere

A contemporary of Berryman, Bishop, and Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Rather, he was known as a poet whose unadorned, formal verse marked him as a singular voice. Effort at Speech, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by the author from throughout his career, as well as several new works and an essay by Michael Collier placing Meredith in his times.