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1. Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

1. ix, 95 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

1. Poetry
2. poetry
3. Poetry

Genre/Form

1. poetry.
2. Poetry
3. Poetry.
4. Poésie.

Contents

1. I. Exiles: Wedding party -- Love is like sounds -- Old home day -- Exile -- Elegy for Wesley Wells -- No deposit no return -- My son, the executioner -- The sleeping giant -- Christmas Eve in Whitneyville -- Jack and the other Jack -- Je suis une table --These faces -- The foundations of American industry -- "I come to the garden alone" -- Christ Church Meadows, Oxford -- By the Exeter River -- Sestina -- Waiting in the corners -- The three movements -- "The scream" -- "Marat's death" -- "The kiss" -- II. Tiger lilies: Digging -- O Flodden Field -- "Reclining figure" -- "King and Queen" -- "Internal and external forms" -- The idea of flying -- The jealous lovers -- An airstrip in Essex, 1960 -- Self-portrait, as a bear -- In the kitchen of the old house -- The days -- The snow -- The farm -- The child -- The kill -- The wives -- The wreckage -- The poem -- The stump -- The old pilot -- New Hampshire -- The grass -- The long river -- Sleeping -- Wells -- III. The alligator bride: The blue wing -- The alligator bride -- The train -- Make up -- The coal fire -- Sew -- Swan -- Old houses -- Pictures of Philippa -- This room -- The repeated shapes -- Woolworth's -- Apples -- Crew-cuts -- Light passage -- The grave, the well -- The table -- Happy times -- Mount Kearsarge -- The man in the dead machine -- The corner -- The dump -- Lovers in middle age -- Waters -- Gold.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Jacket design and photography by Gilda Kuhlman."--Jacket.
2. Edition statement taken from title page verso.