The wreck of the Thresher : and other poems /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
1964.
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| Edition: | Firsrt edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The wreck of the Thresher
- Orpheus
- On falling asleep to birdsong
- For his father
- Roots
- Two Japanese maples
- An old field mowed for appearances' sake
- On looking into Robert Frost in Kanji
- An assent to wildflowers
- For Guillaume Apollinaire (Autumn crocuses ; Annie ; Mountebanks ; Autumn ; Rhenish night)
- Fables about error (A ritual mouse ; A fable of grackles ; The tale of the house swallow on Cape Ann ; Moral)
- The couple overhead
- At the opera
- Dialogue at the ballet
- The ballet
- Five accounts of a monogamous man (He thinks of the Chinese snake who is the beginning and the end ; He marvels at the persistence of passion ; Sometimes he contemplates adultery ; His hands, on a trip to Wisconsin ; Lines from his guest-book)
- About poetry (The poet as troublemaker ; Iambic feet considered as honorable scars)
- Drawing the face (Self-portrait ; A young girl reading The poetics)
- The preponderance
- To Bertolt Brecht
- An old photograph of strangers
- Consequences (Of choice ; Of love ; My acts).