Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems 1957-1984 - Hardcover

Davison, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689114990 ISBN 13: 9780689114991

Publisher: Atheneum, 1984

Synopsis

140 poems from 7 previous works, plus his introductory note.

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Absalom
After Being Away
Artemis
Asking Nothing
At The Site Of Last Night's Fire
Atmospheres: 1. Boulder 1935
Atmospheres: 2. Cheyenne Mountain 1944
Atmospheres: 3. National Center For Atmospheric Rfesearch 19
Atmospheres: 4. Boulder 1979
Barn Fever
Bed Time
The Breaking Of The Day
The City And The Island: 1. For Amphibians
The City And The Island: 3. The Emigration: Newfoundland '65
The City And The Island: 4. The Immigrant's Apology
The City And The Island: 5. Travelling Among Islands
The Collector
The Compound Eye
Creatures Of The Genitive
Crossing The Void
The Dance Of The Hours, Or, It's A Living
Dance Of The Shaking Sheets
Dark Houses
Death Song: The Moment
The Diamond Pipe
Doors
Easter Island: The Statues Speak
Embraces
Eurydice In Darkness
The Fall Of The Doll's House
Fawn
Finale: Presto
The Fire In The House
The Firstling
Fogged In
For Jane, Writing
Gifts
Goodbye
Ground
Haskell's Mill
Having Saints
The Heroine
The Housewife's Paradise
Il Se Sauve
Impossible People
In The Seventies: 1. Is Anything Wrong
In The Seventies: 2. Lovers By Sea-light
In The Seventies: 3. Call Sign Aquarius
In The Seventies: 4. Motley
In The Seventies: 5. Into The Future
In The Seventies: 6. Poem Of Force
In The Seventies: 7. At The Close
In The Sixties: 1. The Pleaders
In The Sixties: 2. The Gun Hand
In The Sixties: 3. What Counts
In The Sixties: 4. 1968
In The Sixties: 5. The Two Of You
In The Sixties: 6. A Word In Your Ear On Indifference
Interval
Intimacies
January 1977
July Meeting
La Bocca Della Verita
La Cathedrale Engloutie
Lambkill
Last Infirmity
The Last Word
Late Summer Love Song
The Laughter Of Women
Life Mask
The Losing Struggle
Low Lands
Low Lands
Lunch At The Coq D'or
Magpie
Making Marks
The Money Cry
My Lady By The Lake
North Shore
Not Forgotten: 1. Watching Her Go
Not Forgotten: 2. Dream
Not Forgotten: 3. Reality
Not Forgotten: 4. Self-defense
Not Forgotten: 5. Aftermath
Nothing Sudden
The Obituary Writer
Offisa Popp; A Maneuver In Class Warfare
Old Photograph
On Ithaca
Paradise As A Garden
The Peeper
Peripheral Vision
The Poem In The Park
Pretending To Be Asleep: 1. The Deserted Poet
Pretending To Be Asleep: 10. First Voice: The Child
Pretending To Be Asleep: 11. Second Voice: The Youth
Pretending To Be Asleep: 12. Third Voice: The Widower
Pretending To Be Asleep: 13. Fourth Voice: The Grandmother
Pretending To Be Asleep: 14. Possession
Pretending To Be Asleep: 2. In The Dock
Pretending To Be Asleep: 3. Under Protection
Pretending To Be Asleep: 4. The Flower Of Sleep
Pretending To Be Asleep: 5. The Public Garden
Pretending To Be Asleep: 6. The Visitant
Pretending To Be Asleep: 7. Pretending To Be Awake
Pretending To Be Asleep: 8. The Cost Of Pretending
Pretending To Be Asleep: 9. The Voices
Questions Of Swimming, 1935
The Ram Beneath The Barn
Rites Of Passage: 1946
Sacrificial Mask
Satan In Goatskin
Sleeping Beauty Variations
Song: Bright Being
Standing Fast: Fox Into Hedgehog
The Star Watcher
Stumps
The Suicide
Summer School
Thatch
They That Have The Power To Hurt
To A Mad Friend
Toward An Understanding Of The Public Life
'true Feeling Leaves No Memory'
Two Midrashim
The Vanishing Point
Walking The Boundaries
Winter Sunrise
Wintering Over
Wordless Winter
Zenith: Walker Creek 1. Head Stone
Zenith: Walker Creek 2. Bicentennial
Zenith: Walker Creek 3. Making Much Of Orioles
Zenith: Walker Creek 4. Zenith: Walker Creek
Zenith: Walker Creek 5. Day Of Wrath
Zenith: Walker Creek 6. Cross Cut
Zenith: Walker Creek 7. Thanksgiving
Zenith: Walker Creek 8. Skiing By Moonlight
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689114990
• ISBN 13: 9780689114991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195