Collected poems, 1930-1976 : including 43 new poems

Poems. Selections

This fevers me -- O wild chaos! -- The Bells of a Chinese temple -- Maze -- For a Lamb -- Caravan of Silence -- Four Lakes' Days -- Ode to Silence -- The Return of Odysseus -- 'Where are those High and Haunting Skies' -- Suite in Prison -- The Groundhog -- The Rape of the Cataract -- 1934 -- 'In a Hard Intellectual Light' -- 'My Bones Flew Apart' -- The Transfer -- Request for Offering -- Necessity -- The Scarf of June -- Experience Evoked -- Two Loves -- Burnder -- 'In Prisons of Established Craze' -- The Largess -- 'When Doris Danced' -- 'The Critic with his Pained Eye' -- The Young Hunter -- 'When Goolden Flies upon my Carcasss Come' -- 'Now is the Air made of Chiming Balls' -- The Child -- Let the Tight Lizard on the Wall' -- 'I Went to see Irving Babbitt' -- Recollection of Childhood -- Orchard -- The Soul Long To Return whence it Came -- Grave Pice -- The Humanist -- The Virgin -- 'Man's Greed and Envy are so Great' -- 'The Goal of Intellectual Man -- 'If I could only live at the Pitch that is near Madness' -- 'I Walked Out to the Graveyard to see the Dead' -- A Meditation -- 'The Full of Joy do not Know; they Need not' -- Rumination -- 'Cover Me Over' -- The Recapitulation -- 'Imagining How it would be to be Dead' -- 'I walked over the Grave of Henry James' -- The Ineffable -- 'Mysticism Had Not the Patience to wait for God's Revelation' -- The Dream -- THe Moment of Vision -- Restrospective Forelook -- The Lyric Absolute -- 'I Will Not Dare to ask One Question' -- New Hampshire, February -- Triptych -- Ode to the Chinese Paper Snake -- Burr Oaks -- Dam Neck, Virginia -- The Fury of Aerial Bombardment -- An Airman Considers his Power -- At the End of War -- A Ceremony by the Sea -- World War -- Brotherhood of Men -- Indian Pipe -- 'Go to the Shne that's on a Tree' -- 'Sometimes the Longing for Death -- At Night -- A Love Poem -- God and Man -- The Horse Chestnut Tree -- The Tobacconist of Eighth Street -- Seals, Terns, Time -- The Cancer Cells -- Forms of the Human -- Oedipus -- Fragment of New York, 1929 -- Aesthetics after War -- On Shooting Particles beyond the World -- A Legend of Viable Women -- The Verbalist of Summer -- Concord Cats -- On the Fragility of Mind -- Great Praises -- The Dry Rot -- The Skier and the Mountain -- The Human Being is a Lonely Creature -- The Book of Nature -- Cousin Florence -- Sestina -- 'My Golden and My Fierce Assays' -- Ur Burial -- Seeing is Deceiving -- Analogue of Unity in Multeity -- Sea-Hawk -- Sainte Anne de Beaupre -- Mediterranean Song -- To Evan -- The Day-Bed -- Formative Mastership -- The Hand and the Shadow -- Words -- On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn -- Centennial for Whitman -- Soul -- Fables of the Moon -- Salem -- The Return -- The Giantess -- The Wisdom of Insecurity -- Sunday in October -- Sumer Landscape -- Only in the Dream -- Nothing but Chan ge -- Thrush Song at Dawn -- The Voyage -- Off Spectable Island -- The Seasons -- The Noble Man -- The Forgotten Rock -- Attitudes -- An Old Fashioned American Business Man -- A Young Greek, Killed in the Wars -- Protagonists -- A Soldier Rejectis his Times Addressing his Contemporaries -- 'Blessed Are the Angels in Heaven -- Villanelle -- Life as Visionary Spirit -- Fortune's Mist -- Yonder -- Autumnal -- The Sacrifice -- Lucubration -- In After Time -- A Testament -- Request -- Love Among the Ruins -- Anima -- The Supreme Authority of the Imagination -- Perception as a Guided Missile -- By the Stream -- What Gives -- The Oak -- In the Garden -- The Lost Children -- A Commitment -- Apple Buds -- Throwing the Apple -- The Garden God -- Light from Above -- Austere Poem -- Hoot Owls -- Tree Swallows -- The Clam Diggers and Diggers of Sea Worms -- A Ship Burning and a Comet all in One Day -- The Hard Structure of the World -- The Parker River -- At the Canoe Club -- Ospreys in Cry -- Half-bent Man -- Spring Mountain Climb -- The Passage -- The Gods of Washington, D.C. -- Equivalence of Gnats and Mice -- Birth and Death -- The Incomparable Light -- Mais l'amour infini me montera dans lame -- On Seeing an Egyptian Mummy in Berlin, 1932 -- The Spider -- Sea-Ruck -- The Hamlet Father -- Four Exposures -- La Crosse at Ninety Miles an Hour -- Loss -- To Auden on His Fiftieth -- To William Carlos Williams -- Nexus -- Examination of Psyche: Thoughts of Home -- The Project -- Matador -- Prometheus -- Old Tom -- The Height of Man -- An Evaluation under a Pine Tree, Lying on Pine Needles -- Kaire -- A New England Bachelor -- A Maine Roustabout -- Sea Burial from the Cruiser Reve -- Flux -- Ruby Daggett -- Hardening into Print -- The Lament of a New England Mother -- The Lost -- Moment of Equilibrium among the Islands -- Am I My Neighbor's Keeper? -- Christmas Tree -- Looking at the Stars -- Dream Journey of the Head and Heart -- Winter Kill -- Later or Sooner -- The Gesture -- Ultimate Song -- Vision -- May Evening -- Ways and Means -- Meditation Two -- The Illusions of Eternity -- The Standards -- The Birth of the Spirit -- Extremity -- 'My brains are slipping in the fields of Eros' -- Refrains -- To Harriet Monroe -- 'Whenever I see beauty I see death' -- Recognition -- Opulence -- Memory -- The Vastness and Indifference of the World -- Hill Dream of Youth, Thirty Years Later -- Why? -- R.G.E. -- To the Field Mice -- The Assassin -- Ball Game -- The Enigma -- THe Haystack -- Santa Claus in Oaxaca -- Looking Head On -- Solace -- Evil -- Marrakech -- Lions Copulating -- The Ides of March -- A Wedding on Cape Rosier -- On Returning to a Lake in Spring -- The Explorer of Main Street -- Sanders Theater -- The Young and the Old -- Old Question -- John Ledyard -- Van Black, an Old Farmer in his Dell -- Froth -- The Swallow Return -- The Wedding -- To Kenya Tribesmen, The Turkana -- Kinaesthesia -- The Anxiety I felt in Guanajuato -- Track -- The Bower -- Despair -- Suicide Note -- Evening Bird Song -- The Secret Heart -- Time Passes -- Broken Wing Theory -- The Fisher Cat -- Reading Room, The New York Public Library -- Meaningless Poem -- Homage to the North -- As If You Had Never Been -- The Breathless -- Stealth and Subleties of Growth -- Emily Dickinson -- Hardy Perennial -- Quarrel with a Cloud -- Gnats on my Paper -- The Truncated Bird -- Man's Type -- Long Term Suffering -- You think they are permanent but they pass -- Hatred of the Old River -- Vermont Idyll -- The Scouring -- The Cage -- The Poet -- Man and Nature -- Old Tree by the Penobscot -- Placation of Reality -- Emblem -- Worldly Failure -- A Man who was Blown Dead by the Wind -- The Hop-Toad -- United 555 -- Light, Time, Dark -- Death in the Mines -- Adam Cast Forth (Borges) -- Redemption -- Undercliff Evening -- Portrait of Rilke -- Sphinxd -- The Groundhog Revisiting -- Big Rock -- American Hakluyt -- Life and Death -- Flow of Thought -- Mind and Nature -- Wild Life and Tamed Life -- Inchiquin Lake, Penobscot Bay -- Face, Ocean -- Three Kis -- Trying to Hold It All Together -- A Way Out -- Incidence of Flight -- Slow Boat Ride -- The Poem as Trajectory -- Snow Cascades -- Coast of Maine -- Usurper -- Vision Through Timothy -- Once More, O ye ...

Fables of representation : essays

Poets on poetry

Fables of representation : essays

Poets on poetry

Poets on poetry.

Wind, trees

Wind -- Decoys -- Boxing -- Loneliness -- Perfume -- Dawn in Erie, Pennsylvania -- Wind -- Helping -- Friendship -- Perigee -- Passing -- Take It -- Nothing to Declare -- Ending -- Rain -- The Commute -- Piano -- Signs -- Saturday -- Night Train -- The Heat Is Coming -- Windward -- Yard Dogs -- Dream -- Burning the Days -- Sailing -- Quarantine -- Airless -- Trees -- Shipbuilding -- Singing -- The Language of Trees -- Wood -- Among the Trees -- Still -- Show -- The Secret Country -- Borrowed Finery -- Icicle -- Centuries in the Woods -- Exile -- The Trees of City Hall -- Windbreak -- Dusk -- Colors -- Receiving -- Without -- The Green Tram -- Fables -- The Red Umbrella -- Voices.

Door

Penguin poets

Penguin poets.

Door (World Fills Up) -- Bee -- Hand (Giotto) -- Habitat -- Table -- Ingredients -- Fragment (Stone) -- Garden -- Ovation For Now -- Horizon -- Door (I Don't Know Who) -- An Interior -- Count -- As If -- Dune Apparition -- Door (Urgency Of Almost) -- The Mines (Magritte) -- Tally -- Entanglement (Delacroix) -- Syntax -- Door (The Said Closes) -- Door (Let's Explore) -- Fly -- Fable Of The Barn -- Untitled (Bicycle) -- Nights In The Asyntactical World -- Untitled (Crow) -- Elegy In January -- Alarm -- Revision -- Coincidence Of The Hoe -- Door (And Then We Fell) -- Ethos -- And Then -- Song (Ukraine) -- The Belated -- Dis -- On Relation -- Hearsay -- Company -- A Supplication -- The Blue Door -- Nocturne -- Door (Small Incident).

The tradition

Poems. Selections

Ganymede -- As a human being -- Flower -- The microscopes -- The tradition -- Hero -- After another country -- The water lilies -- Foreday in the morning -- The card tables -- Bullet points -- Duplex -- The trees -- Second language -- After Avery R. Young -- A young man -- Duplex -- Riddle -- Good white people -- Correspondence -- Trojan -- The legend of big and fine -- The peaches -- Night shift -- Shovel -- The long way -- Dear whiteness -- Of the swan -- Entertainment industry -- Stake -- Layover -- Duplex -- Of my fury -- After Essex Hemphill -- Stay -- A.D. -- Turn you over -- The virus -- The rabbits -- Monotheism -- Token -- The hammers -- I know what I love -- Crossing -- Deliverance -- Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park -- Dark -- Duplex -- Thighs and ass -- Cakewalk -- Stand -- Duplex: cento.

So where are we? : poems

Poems. Selections

A fable -- So where are we? -- In a post-bubble credit-collapse environment -- On nature -- Syria -- Here in a state of tectonic tension -- An ancient clarity overlaid -- On Utopia Parkway -- Visions of labor -- Who talks like that? -- In that city, in those circles -- Water Street -- That September and October -- In parentheses -- In this language, in war's revolutions -- Made of this, sensory fact -- Of what we know now -- In one days annals -- On peripheries of the imperium -- Is what it is -- And for the record -- Back to that -- What more is there to say?

Selected criticism: prose, poetry.

Modernism in American literature -- Edith Sitwell -- Colette -- Flowering Judas -- The ladies and gentlemen -- Hart Crane -- The letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Feats on the fjord -- The Oxford book of modern verse -- The progress of T.S. Eliot -- Euripides in modern dress -- The people, yes and no -- Landscape with Jeffers -- Rilke in his age -- Asian exoticism -- The decoration of novels -- William Butler Yeats -- Light and adult -- Stephen Spender -- James on a revolutionary theme -- Country things -- The pure in heart -- Poet in spite of himself -- On the death of William Butler Yeats -- Make it new -- Finnegans wake -- Unofficial feminine laureate -- The poetry of Paul Eluard -- America was promises -- Utilitarianism disguised -- Pound's later Cantos -- The poet in New York and elsewhere -- Childhood's false Eden -- Sensibility and luggage -- The letters of Rainer Maria Rilke -- The later poetry of William Butler Yeats -- The Gothic South -- A revolution in European poetry -- War poetry -- Wise after the event -- Sentimental education today -- Isak Dinesen -- Stefan George -- Some notes on popular and unpopular art -- Marianne Moore -- The time of the assassins -- The silver clue -- Yvor Winters -- The Prophet Job: Yankee style -- The quest of W.H. Auden -- The summers of Hesperides are long -- The portrait of New England -- The modern syndrome -- The secular hell -- Satire and sentimentality -- The head and the heart -- Baudelaire revisited -- The heart and the lyre -- John Betjeman -- The poet Lawrence -- The creative experiment -- Goethe two hundred years after -- Post-war British poets -- The auroras of autumn -- The skirting of passion -- From Chaucer to Yeats -- The later Dylan Thomas -- The fable and the song -- The minor shudder -- Young poets: 1944-1954.

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Homeschool.

Roll under the waves.

Human soup.

Arson.

History of sound.

Erl king.

Fable.

Fat swim.

Old school.

The essential Etheridge Knight

Poems. Selections

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Genesis -- Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane ; Cell song ; He sees through stone ; The idea of ancestry ; On the yard ; A wasp woman visits a black junkie in prison ; Haiku ; For freckle-faced Gerald ; The warden said to me the other day ; My life, the quality of which ; A poem for black relocation centers -- You are ; The violent space ; A poem for a certain lady on her 33rd birthday ; The stretching of the belly ; As you leave me ; No moon floods the memory of that night ; Upon your leaving ; Feeling fucked up -- Indiana haiku-2. Vigo County ; The penal farm ; Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis ; Indianapolis war memorial ; Harlem -- For Langston Hughes ; Welcome back, Mr. Knight : love of my life ; Another poem for me ; The bones of my father ; Evolutionary poem no. 1 ; Evolutionary poem no. 2 -- A poem for myself ; Report to the mother ; The sun came ; It was a funky deal ; Dark prophecy : I sing of shine ; For Malcolm, a year after ; A poem of attrition ; For black poets who think of suicide ; For Mary Ellen McAnally ; The keeping of a promise ; Ilu, the talking drum ; Poem for the liberation of southern Africa ; Television speaks ; On watching politicians perform at Martin Luther King's funeral -- A fable ; Memo #9 ; Memo #32 ; Memo #2 ; Memo #5 ; Portrait of Mary ; My uncle is my honor and a guest in my house ; I and your eyes ; On the birth of a black/baby/boy ; Birthday poem ; Cop-out session ; A poem to Galway Kinnell -- Missouri haiku. Boone County ; Outside St. Louis ; Clay County ; Mizzu -- Indiana haiku. Riverside Park ; Indiana Avenue ; Indianapolis winter, 1973 -- We free singers be ; Talking in the woods with Karl Amorelli ; Boston 5:00 a.m., 10/74 ; A poem on the Middle East "peace process" ; Haiku 1 ; Memo #43 ; And tell me poet, can love exist in slavery? ; Green grass and yellow balloons ; Belly song ; Apology for apostasy? ; Con/tin/U/way/shun blues -- On seeing the black male as #1 sex object in America ; Last words by "Slick" ; Haiku ; Genesis 11 ; Eat Helen B happy ; Various protestations from various people ; At a VA hospital in the middle of the United States of America : an act in a play ; On the projects playground ; Circling the daughter ; For a Brookline lady I love ; Once on a night in the delta : a report from hell ; A black poet leaps to his death ; Rehabilitation & treatment in the prisons of America.

Musical tables : poems

Musical tables -- Highway -- Aa -- The naked eye -- Argument from design -- New calendar -- The Mohawk Diner, 3 AM -- Dog -- An exaltation of frogs -- Look -- Limits -- Last to leave the party -- The dead of winter -- Carbon dating -- From a railing -- Flaubert -- Mute potato -- Headstones -- Creative writing -- The code of the west -- Breaking up -- The sociologist -- Pupil -- Reflections on an Amish childhood -- Night sky -- Used book -- Thelonious Morning -- Seashore -- Random -- Teenager -- Twisting time -- D Major -- Simplicity -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Eyes -- Falling asleep -- A memory -- Poetry -- Motel parking lot -- View -- Flash -- The visit -- The Sunday Times -- The first straw -- Koan in the rain -- Crèche -- ENG 243: The history of egotism -- Hotel room -- New York directions -- A small hotel -- Angelus -- Physical -- 4'33" by John Cage -- Olden plea -- Three for a quarter -- Yamaha -- Quatrain -- Dogma -- November morning -- Google maps -- Oxymorons -- Art revolutionaries -- Medium and message -- The Milky Way -- Envelope -- Jazz man -- Child astronomy -- Children -- Breakfast -- Divorce -- Face up -- Octopus sonneteer -- Dictionary wanderings -- Junior philosopher -- Zen backfire -- Tom Thumb's thumb -- Neighborhood -- Wet morning -- Covid -- Empty house -- View from a bridge -- Spacing -- Poetry collection -- Orphans -- Departure -- Deep Mexican night -- Charmed -- Celtic interlacing -- Corridor -- Deer hit -- Awake -- Page-turner -- Pianissimo -- Card sharp -- Carpe diem -- Italian palindrome -- Avoidance -- Nurse -- Refrigerator light -- Summer -- Morning walk -- 3:00 AM -- Poems -- Saying -- Angler -- Corn field -- A rake's progress -- Sunday morning -- The student -- The English professor -- Fay -- Young Webster -- Birthday poem -- After the concert -- Light-year -- Cornish -- Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) -- Reclining on clouds -- The exception -- Quickie ekphrasis -- Medieval photography -- Bad hotel -- Siren -- Halloween -- Elegy -- Disappointing freak show -- Coincidence -- Lazy creator -- Weekday -- Card table -- Transitive death -- Music -- Narcissism -- Early tattoo -- Small audience -- Precocious -- Simile -- The children's table -- Supine -- As time goes by.

The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

New American poetry in the age of hip-hop

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but were afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Agate / Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast -- how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Untitled / America's pastime / Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby -- / Hood / Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Beat boxing ; Robot music / mic check, 1-2 / Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / The world tells how the world ends ; Object / Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Hip hop analogies ; Switch / From all convulsions / Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / The future / The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Motherland / When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Elegy in gold ; Break / Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Corners / It's just begun / Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / I have a drone / Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / 100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Harbor / Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : San Andreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Bint ibrahim / Ha ha hum ; Adventures / If you don't know / Small poems for big / Stakes is high ; When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / To the notebook kid / A remix for remembrance, Stockholm syndrome / In search of black birds / Let me handle my business, damn / When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / No country for black boys / Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / What the eyes saw / A suite for ol' dirty Juicy (an erasure) / Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Beat writers / Four elements of ghostdance / Grand slam / This, here / My niece's hip-hop / Murder is my name / Lesson one / Art. artifice, & artifact / Artist statement / Artist statement / Artist statement / Douglas Kearney -- Artist statement / A locus of control and the erasure / Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Blueprint for breakBeat writing