Collected Poems - Softcover

Boyle, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590393 ISBN 13: 9781556590399

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1991

Synopsis

From Paris in the 1920's to the student strikes at San Francisco State in the 1960's, Kay Boyle chronicled much of the twentieth century. This collection includes all her published poetry as well as new work, which ranges from the intensely personal to the outspokenly political.

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Advice To The Old
After The Earth Quaked
American Citizen - Colorado 1943
And Winter
Angles For Djuna Barnes
The Artist Speaks.....
The Battlefield
Branded For Slaughter
Career
Carnival 1927
A Christmas Carol %for Emanuel Carnevali
A Cloak For A Man %who Has No Heed For Winter
A Comeallye For Robert Carlton Brown
A Communication To Nancy Cunard
A Complaint For Mary And Marcel
A Confession To Eugene Jolas
The Crow
December 1989
Dedicated To Robert Mcalmon
Dedicated To Terre Des Hommes
A Dialogue Of Birds For Howard Nemerov
Dreams Dreamed
The Evening Grass
For An American
For James Baldwin
For James Schevill
For Marianne Moore's Birthday
Funeral In Hungary
A Glad Day For Laurence Vail
Hunt
In Defense Of Homosexuality
The Interruption
The Invitation In It, Fr. American Citizen
The Jews Among The Nations
A Landscape For Wyn Henderson
A Lesson In Anatomy
A Letter To Archibald Craig
A Letter To Francis Picabia
The Lost Dogs Of Phnom Penh
Mothers
The New Emigration
A Night Letter
O This Is Not Spring
October 1954
Ode To A Maintenance Man And His Family
On Taking Up Residence In Virginia
On The Death Of My Student, The Poet Serafin
The Only Bird That Sang
The Painter Speaks - The Woman Answers
The People's Cry
A Poem About Black Power
A Poem About The Jews
Poem For A Painter Bent On Suicide
A Poem For Arthur
A Poem For February First 1975
A Poem For Samuel Beckett
A Poem For The Students Of Greece
A Poem For The Teesto Dino Of Arizona
A Poem For Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi
A Poem In One Sentence
A Poem Of Gratitude
A Poem Of Love
A Poem On Getting Up Early In The Morning (or Even Late ...
Poems For A Painter
Poets
Print From A Lucite Block
Rendezvous
Seascape For An Engraver
A Short Poem In Color
Spring
A Square Dance For A Square
A Statement For El Grego And William Carlos Williams
The Stones Of Seventeenth Century Village
Testament For My Students, 1968 - 1969
They Are Overseas
This Is Not A Letter
Thunderstorm In South Dakota
To A Proud Old Woman Watching The Tearing Down Of The ....
To America
Two Poems For A Poet
Two Twilights For William Carlos Williams
The United States
A Valentine For Harry Crosby
The Waltz Tune In It
A Waterfront For Allan Ross Macdougall
Weather
What Parents Do Not Yet Know
A Winter Fable
The Woman Answers
World Tour
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Publishers Weekly

Showcasing a poetic career spanning 65 years, this fine volume demonstrates the strength of Boyle's ( This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems ) commitment to a political aesthetic, one that combines a wealth of nuanced knowledge with a genuine liberal spirit. Boyle adopts a number of different voices, often vernacular, setting off opposing viewpoints to fully convey the scope of her themes. Although always attuned to the myriad beauty of existence, the poet never loses sight of the plight of the disenfranchised and the oppressed. Among Boyle's causes are homosexuality ("I speak of it as a thing with a future"), homelessness ("old hags cast up against the wainscoting of Grand Central's ladies' room"), and anti-Semitism (to make a point, she declares, "I have had enough of the Jews, more than enough"). She also pays loving tribute to writers and friends who have influenced her along the way, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore among them. Boyle adopts a pretentiously baroque style at times, but more often, she prefers to explore colloquial American speech in all of its variety.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1556590393
• ISBN 13: 9781556590399
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192