Details

Edition

1st ed.

Description

285 pages ; 25 cm

Note

"Autographed copy." DLC

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.

Contents

From Intellectual things (1930). Change -- Single vision -- Particular lullaby -- Promise me -- Strange calendar -- Poem -- Deciduous branch -- The words of the preacher -- Ambergris -- Approach of autumn -- The pivot -- He -- Very tree -- Prophecy on lethe -- Lovers relentlessly -- Nocturne -- For proserpine -- Parting -- I dreamed that I was old -- Night-piece -- Between me and the rock -- Transformations -- First love -- Last words -- Eagle -- So intricately is this world resolved -- Benediction -- In a strange house -- Master and mistress -- Organic bloom -- Beyond reason -- The lesson -- Vita nuova -- From Passport to the war (1944). Reflection by a mailbox -- The last picnic -- Welcome the wrath -- Night letter -- Father and son -- The hemorrhage -- The harsh judgment -- Confidential instructions -- The signal from the house -- The tutored child -- The economist's song -- The old clothes man -- The fitting of the mask -- The supper before last -- The daughters of the horseleech -- Careless love -- The guilty man -- Between the acts -- This day this world -- The last question -- How long is the night? -- The reckoning -- Open the gates -- From This garland, danger, in selected poems : 1928-1958. The science of the night -- Green ways -- When the light falls -- Among the gods -- As flowers are -- The waltzer in the house -- Sotto voce -- Grammar lesson -- She wept, she railed -- Foreign affairs -- The unwithered garland -- The man upstairs -- The approach to Thebes -- The dark and the fair -- The thief -- End of summer -- Goose pond -- The dragonfly -- The war against the trees -- The thing that eats the heart -- By lamplight -- The scourge -- Hermetic poem -- To the reader (Baudelaire) -- The way down -- The class will come to order -- The summing-up -- Revolving meditation -- A spark of laurel.

From The testing-tree (1971). Journal for my daughter -- An old cracked tune -- The portrait -- The magic curtain -- After the last dynasty -- The illumination -- Robin redbreast -- River road -- Summer solstice (Mandelstam) -- Tristia (Mandelstam) -- The mound builders -- The customs collector's report -- The gladiators -- The system -- Around pastor Bonhoeffer -- Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg) -- Three floors -- The flight of Apollo -- King of the river -- The mulch -- Indian summer at land's end -- Cleopatra (Akhmatova) -- Dante (Akhmatova) -- Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova) -- The artist -- The testing-tree -- The game -- From The layers, in The poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978. The knot -- What of the night? -- Quinnapoxet -- Words for the unknown makers -- To a slave named Job -- Sacred to the memory -- Girl with sampler -- Trompe l'oeil -- A blessing of women -- The catch -- The crystal cage -- Signs and portents -- Firesticks -- The Lincoln relics -- Meditations on death (Ungaretti) -- The quarrel -- The unquiet ones -- My sisters -- Route six -- The layers -- from Next-to-last things (1985). The snakes of September -- The abduction -- Raccoon journal -- The old darned man -- The scene (Blok) -- The image-maker -- Lamplighter : 1914 -- Day of foreboding -- Three small parables for my poet friends -- The round -- Passing through -- The long boat -- The wellfleet whale -- From Passing through : the later poems (1995). My mother's pears -- Chariot -- In the dark house -- Halley's comet -- Hornworm : summer reverie -- Hornworm : autumn lamentation -- The sea, that has no ending ... -- Proteus -- Touch me.

Summary

The National Book Award winner celebrates a life in poetry, sharing his work published and unpublished in this single volume of his life's accomplishment.

Subject

American poetry.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Poetry.

Added Author

Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Added Title

Poems

ISBN

0393050300

9780393050301

0393322947

9780393322941