Life Supports: New and Collected Poems - Softcover

Bronk, William

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9780865470408: Life Supports: New and Collected Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865470405 ISBN 13: 9780865470408

Publisher: North Point Pr, 1982

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Collects Bronk's complete poems, which deal with the themes of the nature of perception and the human need to reshape the world, among others

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Winner of the American Book Award in 1982 for LIFE SUPPORTS, his collected early poetry, William Bronk (1918-1999) is widely celebrated as one of the most accomplished poets of his generation. The recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry in 1991, Bronk lived most of his life in Hudson Falls, New York, in a substantial Victorian home that became a mecca for American poets and artists.

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17 March
90. Domine Refugium
The Abjuration Avowed
The Abnegation
About Dynamism, Desire And Various Fictions
The Absence Of Proof
The Absent Present. Pronominal Cases
The Abstract As Real - Concrete As Imaginary
The Acts Of The Apostles
Afraid To Be
After The Spanish Chroniclers
Against Biography
The Aggrandizement: It's A Short Road That Has No Turnoff
Alice Said She Was Climbing The Walls. Well I Know What She Means
All We Ponder
The Angry Year
The Annihilation Of Matter
Answers To Hard Questions
Anybody. Any Day.
The Apartness
The Archeology Of Man; His Nature
The Aria
The Arts And Death: A Fugue For Sidney Cox
As Seen
Asking
Aspects Of The World Like Coral Reefs
At Fifty
At The Theater
At The Theater Ii
At Tikal
Awareness
The Bach Trombones At Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bare
The Basic Wonder
Beatific Effigies
The Beautiful Wall, Machu Picchu
The Being
Being As Unperson
The Belief In The Self Abandoned
Benedicite Omnia Opera
A Black Clay Fish From Oaxaca
Blue Spruces In Pairs, A Bird Bath Between
The Body
The Body Of This Life
Boolean Algebra X2=x
A Bright Day In December
Certain Beasts, Like Cats
The Changes
The Cipher
Civitas Dei
Cold Comfort
Collins And The Steady State
Colloquy On A Bed
The Coming Of Spring\
The Con
Concert Of The Ancient Instruments
Concessions, Cessations
The Conclusion
Conjectural Reading
Conjugation
The Continuance
The Convention Of The Species
Corals And Shells
The Corner By The Post Office, Late Afternoon
The Corridor
The Creation Of The World
Dealing With Measure
The Defence Of Poesie
The Delineation
The Deprived
Desire As Contrition And Absolution
The Destination
The Destroyer Life
The Difference (1)
Diminishment?
Displacement: The Locks On The Feeder Called The Five Combines
The Disproportions Of Desire
Dos-a-dos
Dramatis Personae
Draw Near With Faith
The Dream Of A World Of Objects
The Duplicities Of Sense
Duplicity
The Duratin Of This World
The Effect Of Cause Despaired
The Elms Dying - And My Friend, Lew Stillwell, Dead
The Elusions Of Desire
The Emptiness Of Human Being
Equals
Ergo Non Sum. Est.
The Errors Of Order
Euclidean Spaces: Linear Time
Evaluation
The Extensions Of Space
External Determinants
The Failure To Devise A Better World
A Fair Face
The False Corner
The False Premise
The Fantasy
The Feeling
The Fiction Of Shape
The Final Despair
A Fish Mosaic In The First Basilica In Porec
Flowers, The World And My Friend, Thoreau
The Food
The Fool In The Forest
For An Early Italian Musician
For Any Speakers
For Early Summer
For Peter Kaldheim
For Tom As A Wrestler And Hunter
The Force Of Desire
The Fragile Endurace Of The World
The Freedom We Feel
Friendly Greeting
The Full Strength Of Nothing
Getting Us Straight
Gist And Gism
Gnomon Of The Pro-nouns
Go Ahead; Goodbye; Good Luck; And Watch Out
The Good Life
Graffiti On The Ground In The Nasca Desert
The Greed
The Greeks, The Chinese, Or Say The Mayans
Green As A Verity
Grids
Growth Of Alder
The Gulls At Longbird Island
The Happy Man
The Hazard
He Importunes The God
He Praises Nescience And Impotence
Her Singing
Hippolytus
His Poems
The Holding
Home Address
How Indeterminacy Determines Us
How We Differ From The Earth
How We Got To See It
However, The Spiritual Is All But Not Quite All
Hudson Street
Hypotheses
I Am (2)
I Thought It Was Harry
Ignorance
Ignorance As Well As Knowledge Has Its Paradoxes
The Ignorant Lust After Knowledge
Impersonation
The Importuning Of Truth
In April
In Navaho Country
In Our Image, After Our Likeness
In Praise Of Love
The Inability
The Incarnation
The Inclination Of The Earth
The Indecision
The Inference
Instead
The Insufficiency
The Intended Taste
Joe's Jitters
June Comes, Janus Faced
L'etre Et Le Neant
La Cama De Piedra
The Lack Of Information
The Late Agnostic
The Lawn
Leaving Us Out
Leaving You
Left
Let Go
Life Supports
Like An Island Downriver From Us
The Line: The Stuff On Which We Turn
The Lives Of Poets
Local Landscapes
Loew's World
Looking At It
Love As A Great Power
The Lover As Not The Loved
The Lullaby
The Makeshift
Making It
The Marches Upstate
The Mask The Wearer Of The Mask Wears
The Mayan Glyphs Unread
The Meaning
The Medium Moves
The Meeting Ground
Memorial
The Metaphor Of Physical Space
The Method
Metonymy As An Approach To A Real World
Midsummer
The Mind's Landscape On An Early Winter Day
The Mind's Limitations Are Its Freedom
Missing
Misspoken
Morning Greetings Exchanged
Music That Sees Beyond The World
My Father Photographed With Friends
My House New-painted
My Young Nephew Sends Me His Picture For A Present
Mystery Transcendent
Name Calling
Names Like Barney Cain's
Names, Places
The Natural Sciences
The Nature Of Musical Form
The Nature Of The Universe
The Near Beyond
The New Marine On The Bus
The New World
The News
The Night Watch
No Way
The Nominal, The Nameless
The Non-lying Of Figures
Not My Loneliness, But Ours
Not Noah
Not Satellite
Not To Be Satan Nor To Deal With Him
Not To Cry Out, 'how Long, Oh Lord, How Long'
Note From The Edge
The Now Rejects Time And Eternity
Nowhere
Of Order
Of The All With Which We Coexist
Of The Natural World
Of The Several Names Which Are God's
Old Him
On A Course Known Backwards
On A Picture By Vincent Canade
On Being Together
On Credo Ut Intelligam
On Life And Death: Sleep The Intercessor
On Primitive Rites
On Seeing Two Friends Together
On The Death Of Cardinal Tisserant
On The Failure Of Meaning In The Absence Of Objective Analogs
On The Street
The Ones We Meet Asleep
Ontology Offers A Hindrance To Humanism
The Opposition
The Other Personin A Dream
Our Helpless Wonder
Out Of Context
Paradise Now And Then
The Passage
Paul, Prisoner Of The Lord, And Courses Run
Persistent Abstraction
The Plainest Narrative
Poem For The Nineteenth Of March, St. Joseph's Day
The Poems: All Concessions Made
Polarity
The Possible As True, Or Not
A Postcard To Send To Sumer
The Potential Of Shame Acknowledged
The Preference
The Prejudice Of Good Order
The Pretext
Pride, Which Goes Not Only Before But Behind And Probably Sideways,
Primate Behavior
Put
The Puzzle There
The Questions
Questions And Answers
Questions For Eros
The Rain Of Small Occurrences
The Random
The Rapport
Rational Expression
The Real Surrounding: On Canaletto's Venice
The Real World
Reality Not Described
The Receptors
Recession
The Recurrence, Among Other Things, Of Dreams
The Red At Sherman's Farm
The Register
The Remains Of A Farm
The Revelation
The River Through The Mangrove Swamp
Rule Book
The Ruling Passion
The Rumination Of Rivers
Scanning
The Seemings
The Sense Of Passage
A Short Stay In Sarajevo
The Signification
Silence And Metaphor
Silence. Emptiness.
The Slightness Of Unbelief
Smart Cookies Are You It?
The Smile On The Face Of A Kouros
Soldiers In Death
Some Birds On A Dun Field
Some Musicians Play Chamber Music For Us
Something Like Tepees
Something Matters But We Don't
Sovereign Value
The Spies
Spring Storm
The Stairs At Korcula
The Stance
The Story Of Mankind From Earliest Times To The Present Day
The Strong Room Of The House
Subject As If Certainty
The Subsidy
The Substantive
Succoth
The Summer Airs
Surprise Ending
Talks With The Emissaries
The Tell
Telling Us
Tenochtitlan
That
That Little Variance: Extensions Of A Theme From Joseph Conrad
That Something There Is Should Be
There Is Ignorant Silence In The Center Of Things
The Things That Are Are Not
The Thinker Left Looking Out The Window
This Time, Get It Notarized
Thou Winter Wind
The Time
The Time Of Objects In Space
To Be A Saint Like Christopher
To One More Rich In Hope, Featured Like Him
To Praise The Music
To Prospero, Afterwards
The Torment
The Touch
The Transuniversal Look
The Tree In The Middle Of The Field
Truth As A Far Country; As A Piteous Ogre
The Truth As Known
Ultimate Proof
The Unbecoming Of Wanted And Wanter
The Unbelievable
Uncle Will
The Unsaid
The Unsatisfied
Unsatisfied Desire
Usable Things
The Use Of Invented Order
The Use-unuse Of Us
Utterances
The Various Sizes Of The World
A Vase Of Various Flowers
Veni Creator Spiritus
The Verges Of Happiness
Virgin And Child With Music And Numbers
Walking Around
The Wall
The Want
Wanting To Come Back
The Wants Of Life
Watching The Young
The Way
The Way It Happens
The Way Of The World
We Want The Mark Of Time
Weathers We Live In
What About Us?
The What And Where
What Form The World Has
What Goes, What Stays
What It Is
What The Body Does And Doesn't Do
What There Is There
What To Do In Our Helplessness
What Way The Weather Goes
What We Are
What We Call Force. Gravity?
What You Can Do
Where Are We
Where It Ends
Where We Are; Or Getting There Is Only Half The Fun
Where? What?
Who Feels It
Who Wanted It
Why Not?
Winter And Rough Weather
A Winter Shrub
With It
The Witness
The Wonder Of Our Contrariety
The Woods, New York
The World
The World As A Thieving Woman
The World In Time And Space
Writing You
The Yes Or No
Yes: I Mean So Ok - Love
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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