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The Collected Poems of John Ciardi /
In his biography of Ciardi, Edward Cifelli says this poet is one best remembered and understood as writing in a special class of American poets, including contemporaries like Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, and Randall Jarrell. This collection finally demonstrates the scope and weal...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From Homeward to America (1940): Letter to mother
- The foolish wing
- Winter music
- To westward
- Night freight, Michigan
- Letter for those who grew up together
- Letter homeward
- To a young American the day after the fall of Barcelona
- Biography
- To one "investigated" by the last senate committee, or the next
- Reply to S.K.
- Oedipus Tyrannus
- Cathedral
- Boy or girl
- Elaine
- Spring song (I)
- Spring song (II). from New poets (1941): George Washington Bridge
- Time is the late train into Albany
- Boy or girl
- Spring in statue square
- Elegy: for you, Father
- Elegy for the face at your elbow. from Other skies (1947): Ode for school convocation
- On sending home my civilian clothes
- Camptown
- Night piece for my twenty-seventh birthday
- Poem for a soldier's girl
- Take-off over Kansas
- Goodmorning with light
- Reverie during briefing
- Death of a bomber
- Port of aerial embarkation
- Sea burial
- Saipan
- Ritual for singing bat
- Letter from an island
- Elegy just in case (1984 version)
- Expendability
- Elegy [for Kurt Porjescz, missing in a action, 1 April 1945]
- Poem for my twenty-ninth birthday
- Wafflebutt
- Improvisation for a southern night
- V-J Day (1984 version)
- Hometown after a war
- Serenade in a drugstore
- Chelsea Naval Hospital
- On a photo of Sgt. Ciardi a year later. from Live another day (1949): To Judith asleep
- Morning in the park
- Three eggs up
- Dead pigeon on South Street
- The pilot in the jungle
- Letter from a rubber raft
- Homecoming-Massachusetts
- To my students
- Vale
- Philosophical poem
- A visit to Aunt Francesca
- For my nephew going to bed
- In the year of many conversions and the private soul
- Mule
- A Christmas carol
- Christman Eve
- New Year's Eve
- .22
- Survival in Missouri
- Hawk
- Letter from a metaphysical countryside
- Letter to Virginia Johnson
- Filippo Argenti
- Letter to Dante
- A guide to poetry. from Mid-century American poets (1950): Elegy just in case
- To Judith asleep
- V-J Day
- On a photo of Sgt. Ciardi a year later
- The pilot in the jungle
- Vale
- Morning in the park
- In the year of many conversions and the private soul. from Time to time (1951): The figure drawn in wire
- Monocalzata
- The lamb (1984 version)
- The evil eye (1955 version)
- Fragment of a bas relief
- Credo
- Mystic River (1955 version)
- A box comes home (1955 version)
- Image of man as a gardener after two world wars
- Monday morning: London
- Elegy I
- Elegy II
- Elegy III, Cavalcante
- The cow
- The cartographer of meadows
- Annals
- High tension lines across a landscape
- Shore piece
- The clock in the mirror
- Two songs for a gunner
- March morning
- My father's watch (1955 version)
- Landscapes of my name
- Anatomy lab
- Joe with a wooden leg
- Heatwave
- Elegy for Sam
- Childe Horvald to the dark tower came
- Memorial Day
- Another comedy. from As if: poems new and selected (1955): Men marry what they need
- My dear darkened in sleep
- Sometimes the foundering fury
- The deaths about you when you stir in sleep
- The health of captains
- Elegy [My father was born with a spade in his hand]
- Poem for my twenty-ninth birthday
- Elegy [for Kurt Porjescz]
- Elegy just in case
- Sea burial
- V-J Day
- On a photo of Sgt. Ciardi a year later
- Two songs for a gunner
- The lamb
- The evil eye
- Mystic River
- Days
- Thursday
- Survival in Missouri
- Three views of a mother
- Two egrets (1958 version)
- Poem for my thirty-ninth birthday
- Childe Horvald to the dark tower came
- A box comes home
- A thought about Sheik Bedreddin
- Elegy for G. B. Shaw
- The invasion of sleep walkers
- Temptation
- Flowering quince
- Measurements
- Annals
- Fragment of a bas relief
- Thoughts on looking into a thicket
- Landscapes of my name
- On looking east to the sea with a sunset behind me
- A visit to Aunt Francesca
- March morning
- The cow
- Lines while walking home from a party on Charles Street
- Elegy for Jog
- Cezanne
- from Fragments from Italy
- Men marry what they need
- Snowy heron
- To Judith asleep
- Morning: I know perfectly how in a minute you will stretch and smile
- Sometimes the foundering fury
- The stills and rapids of your nakedness
- In the rich farmer's field
- For my son John
- Ten years ago when I played at being brave
- Two poems for Benn
- Most like an arch this marriage
- The deaths about you when you stir in sleep
- March morning
- Two egrets
- Letter from an empty house
- The stone without edges has not been mined
- Letter from a death bed. from 39 poems (1959): Abundance
- A dream
- After Sunday dinner we uncles snooze
- Ballad of the Icondic
- Is it the same place always once again
- The one dull thing you did was to die, Fletcher
- To Dudley Fitts
- Bridal photo, 1906
- Palaver's no prayer
- S.P.Q.R. A letter from Rome
- Massive retaliation
- In place of a curse
- To Lucasta, about that war
- The verbal generation
- The baboon and the state
- The gift
- Captain Nicholas Strong
- A thousandth poem for Dylan Thomas
- Some figures for who must speak
- A praise of good poets in a bad age
- To W. T. Scott
- An inscription for Richard Eberhart. from In the stoneworks (1961): The sea shines
- The dolls
- Back home in Pompeii
- A memory of the sad chair
- Epitaph
- Song for an allegorical play
- The tree
- The little one
- Dialogue
- Bedlam revisited
- Aunt Mary
- A dialogue in the shade
- It took four flowerboats to convoy my father's black
- A plea
- Launcelot in Hell
- Divorced, husband demolishes house
- Damn her
- A rhetoric for Danny Keough to recite at the bar
- Watching a kettle boil
- On meeting Miss B
- An island galaxy
- Dogmatism
- Goodnight
- At cocktails
- Faces
- Everywhere that universe
- Joshua on Eighth Avenue
- Dragons
- The bird in whatever name
- Peaks. from In fact (1962): Selectivity
- Come morning (1984 version)
- On being sure and of what
- My tribe
- A fable of survival
- Orders
- 4:00 a.m. on the terrace
- Miss Olivia Branton
- In pity as we kiss and lie
- Credibility
- Vodka
- Fast as you can count to ten
- Returning home
- Saturday
- Dawn of the space age
- Eggs
- Bird watching
- Every time you are sleeping and I
- Poetry
- In Paul's room
- As I would wish you birds
- A Missouri fable
- When I am not dead
- Are we through talking, I hope?
- Counting on flowers
- The tragedy-maker
- One jay at a time
- I'm no good for you
- English A
- Down narrow stairs from a thin eye
- Suburban homecoming
- In some doubt but willingly. from Person to person (1964): The size of song
- Yet not to listen to that sung nothing
- Gulls land and cease to be
- At first flower of the easy day
- Bees and morning glories
- One morning
- Tree trimming
- Evensong
- Birds, like thoughts
- Sea marshes in winter
- Aquarium
- Old man
- When a man dies
- From Adam's diary
- Two hours
- Of fish and fishermen
- An aspect of the air
- The poet's words
- My father died imperfect as a man
- An afternoon in the park
- I remember the house that was
- Instances
- Reality and Willie Yeats
- Lines
- Tenzone
- On flunking a nice boy out of school
- Autobiography of a comedian
- Elegy
- Coq au vin
- Possibilities
- "NothBing is really hard but to be real-"
- Styles
- What was her name?
- The starry heavens, the moral law
- The colossus in quicksand. from This strangest everything (1966): Talking myself to sleep at one more Hilton
- Back through the looking glass to this side
- Daemons
- Was a man
- Epithalamium at St. Michael's Cemetery
- Boy (1984 version)
- Incident
- The Catalpa
- Small elegy
- Fragment (1984 version)
- Why don't you write for me?
- Galileo and the laws
- Advertisement for a reader
- Some sort of game
- Tommy's pond
- The formalities
- The week that was
- A magus
- On the poet as a damned poor thing
- Twice, away from Jack, I thought of him
- L'Inglese
- Sermon notes
- An evening of the private eye
- On an exalted nonentity
- Parenthood
- Choices
- For Clavia on a rejection slip
- On evolution.
- from An alphabestiary (1967): A is for ant
- B is for bombers
- C is for camel
- G...is for the GNU
- H is, relunctantly, for human
- I is, naturally enough, any author
- J is, splendidly, for John
- M is for mothers
- N is for nannygoat
- O is for ox
- Q may as well be for queen
- r is for rat
- T, the turtle, has been a long time coming. from A genesis (1967): Everywhere that universe
- The sea shines
- Tommy's pond
- Sea marshes in winter
- Birds, like thoughts
- An island galaxy
- The catalpa
- Thoughts on looking into a thicket
- Flowering quince
- Aquarium
- Small elegy. from Lives of X (1971): The shaft
- A knothole in spent time
- Feasts
- The benefits of an education. from The little that is all (1974): Addio
- Minus one
- A conversation with Leonardo
- Ugliness
- A man came Tuesday
- Washing your feet
- One wet iota
- Small
- East Sixty-seventh Street
- An apology for not invoking the muse
- A thanks to a botanist (1984 version)
- On the orthodoxy and creed of my power mower
- To a lovely lady gone to theory
- Exit line
- In the hole
- Keeping
- Blue movie
- Differences
- Letter from a pander
- Notes
- Driving across the American Desert and thinking of the Sahara
- Requisitioning
- Dialogue with outer space
- A prayer to the mountain
- A poem for Benn's graduation from high school
- An emeritus addresses the school
- Generation gap
- Encounter
- Memo: Preliminary draft of a prayer to God the Father.
- From For instance (1979): Machine
- Bicentennial
- For instance
- Alec
- Two for Gertrude Kasle
- The sorrow of obedience
- On passion as a literary tradition
- Suburban
- Birthday
- Between
- Being called
- On the patio
- Knowing bitches
- Craft
- 11:02 a.m. the bird disappeared
- Bashing the babies
- Censorship
- Three a.m. and then five
- Trying to feel something
- No white bird sings
- The lung fish
- An apartment with a view
- Roman diary: 1951
- Firsts
- Stations
- For Miller Williams
- For Myra out of the album
- Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore
- Saturday, March 6
- A crate of sterling loving cups. from The birds of Pompeii (1985): Happiness
- The glory
- Memoir of a one-armed harp teacher
- True or false
- Quirks
- Two dry poems
- Poetry
- Going to the dogs
- Barmecide feast
- Diary entry
- Elegy for a sweet sharpy
- An interruption
- Domestic sonnet
- Socializing with a creature
- Corpus Christi
- An apology for a lost classicism
- Leaving Longboat Key
- At least with good whiskey
- A damnation of doves.
- Apprehendee then exited vee-hicle
- Mutterings
- The limits of friendship
- Friends
- Audit at Key West
- At O'Hare
- January 1, 1973
- Starlet
- January 2, 1978
- Obsolescence
- Credo
- Useless knowledge
- Finally that blue receding sphere. from Poems of love and marriage (1988): For Judith
- In pity as we kiss and lie
- The stills and rapids of your nakedness
- Everytime you are sleeping and I
- Sometimes the foundering fury
- Returning home
- To Judith asleep
- Three a.m. and then five
- Morning
- The stone without edges has not been mined
- Men marry what they need
- Most like an arch this marriage
- The deaths about you when you stir in sleep
- Morning: I know perfectly how in a minute you will stretch and smile
- I was not sleeping nor awake
- Darling
- The aging lovers
- A love poem. from Echoes (1989): One Easter not on a calendar I woke
- A man and a woman might at this moment
- Done for the doing
- Love sonnet: believing part of almost all I say
- Poetry
- Freshman sonnet: success
- I was noAt sleeping for awake
- Darling
- A love poem
- Dear sir
- Late peaches
- Back
- Echoes
- For Myra, John L., and Benn
- Midnight
- It is for the waking man to tell his dreams
- Sounds
- The aging lovers
- This moving meaninglessness
- A trenta-sci of the pleasure we take in the early death of Keats
- Obit
- An overthrow
- God
- Matins
- Elegy for a cave full of bones
- A traffic victim sends a sonnet of confused thanks for God as the sovereign host
- Thinking about girls
- An old man confesses
- A successful species
- Sea-birds
- In the audience
- December 13, 1979. from Stations of the air (1993): And thy mother
- Storm
- Food notes
- This morning
- Christmas alone in Key West
- An old man confesses
- An elegy for moral self-assurance and country virtue
- The logician's nocturne
- A sleep (by Rousseau)
- Loving you is something to do
- Call it a day
- Lines for Myra to grow to
- Carving the turkey
- Mr. & Mrs.
- Statement
- The rite
- A gray spring morning
- Last rites.