Selected Poems - Softcover

Ronald Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0900615176 ISBN 13: 9780900615177

Publisher: Univ of Alberta Pr, 1981

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Achilles' Song
The Adoration Of The Virgin
After A Long Illness
After Reading H.d.'s Hermetic Definitions
The Albigenses
Among My Friends Love Is A Great Sorrow
The Architecture Passages 9
The Ballad Of The Enamord Mage
The Banners
Before The Judgment Passages 35
The Beginning Of Writing
Bending The Bow
A Book Of Resemblances
Bring It Up From The Dark
Circulations Of The Song
The Concert Passages 31
Descriptions Of Imaginary Poetries
The Dreamers
The Festivals
First Invention On The Theme Of The Adam
For A Muse Meant
For A Song Of The Languagers
Four Songs The Night Nurse Sang: 1
Four Songs The Night Nurse Sang: 2
Four Songs The Night Nurse Sang: 3
Four Songs The Night Nurse Sang: 4
From Dante Etudes: Everything Speaks To Me
The Helmet Of Goliath
The Household
The Human Communion. Traces
Huon Of Bordeaux
I Am A Most Fleshly Man
Illustrative Lines
Imagining In Writing
In Blood's Domain (passages)
In Waking
The Kingdom Of Jerusalem
The Maiden
The Mirror
My Mother Would Be A Falconress
Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita
Of Empire
Often I Am Permitted To Return To A Meadow
Passage Over Water
Passages: 1. Tribal Memories
Passages: 13. The Fire
Passages: 18. The Torso
Passages: 25. Uprising
A Poem Beginning With A Line By Pindar
A Poem In Stretching
Poetry Disarranged
Poetry, A Natural Thing
The Reaper
Roots And Branches
Salvages: An Evening Piece
The Sentinels
The Song Of The Borderguard
Source
Stage Directions Passages 30
The Structure Of Rime I
The Structure Of Rime Ii
The Structure Of Rime Iv
The Structure Of Rime Vi
The Structure Of Rime Xi
The Structure Of Rime Xiii
The Structure Of Rime Xvi
The Structure Of Rime Xviii
The Structure Of Rime Xx
The Structure Of Rime Xxviii; In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
This Place Rumord To Have Been Sodom
Upon Taking Hold
Writing As Writing
The Years As Catches
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Publishers Weekly

Duncan (1919-1987) was one of the true masters of contemporary American poetry. His oeuvre is by turns lyrical, experimental, archaic, visionary and political. His most innovative works ("Structure of Rime" and "Passages") have been epic in nature and interspersed among shorter poems throughout several volumes, so that it has been virtually impossible to get a sense of his full poetic powers without reading his mature books, from 1960 on, in order. Bertholf's selections are so attuned to the essentials of Duncan's ( Ground Work: Before the War ; Roots and Branches ) writing--the idiosyncratic spellings, the attention and respect given the muses, the horrific sense of war--that even those familiar with the whole body of Duncan's work will become more sensitized to his recurring imagery and consistency of thought pattern through this collection. "Writing is first a search in obedience," he says in a relatively early poem. And, varying this concept in one of his final poems, written during a long, painful illness: "What Angel, what Gift of the Poem, has brought into my / body / this sickness of living?" In Bertholf's brief, insightful introduction, he makes necessary connections between the often-neglected early work and the later masterpieces.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Alberta Pr
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0900615176
• ISBN 13: 9780900615177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104