The Farm at Richwood and Other Poems - Softcover

Adams, Hazard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912950803 ISBN 13: 9780912950808

Publisher: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, 1999

Synopsis

In his Afterword to this finely honed and memorable collection, written over some 40 years’ time, Hazard Adams characterizes these poems as “those I am willing to stand by.” He has chosen well. This is a radiant volume, rich with imagery and enlivened with a wry and witty sensibility, its five parts charged with the sweep of a small drama. These are poems that wear well and welcome repeated reading. They are a pleasure to read aloud.

Adams opens with a series of strong, spare, bittersweet elegies to his parents and grandparents and to his own rural beginnings as he wrestles with the shifting roles of child and man, actor and observer. He ranges over many subjects and themes, through the bemused “Nine Academic Pieces” of the late 1960s and the marvelously absurdist “Rhinoceros Who Became Dean,” through the insightful perspective of times abroad and at home, through such deeply moving and contemplative pieces as his elegy on the death of a small child. He is a persuasive and versatile master of the poetic line, moving with skill between deftly rhythmical free verse and trenchantly epigrammatic observations, to the lyrical sonnet whose grace notes conclude the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Hazard Adams holds the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous published books of literary theory, fiction, and nonfiction.

Review:

Above Carra: 1
Above Carra: 2
Above Carra: 3
At Yeats's Grave: Drumcliff
Burial At Radnor: 1
Burial At Radnor: 2
Burial At Radnor: 3
Burial At Radnor: 4
Evening In Autumn
The Farm At Richwood
For Keith Jackson
Home Thoughts From Abroad
The Man In The High House Room
Meditations In The Sixties: I. At Bernard Duffey's Home, Durham, N. C.
Meditations In The Sixties: Ii. Mockingbird At Newport Beach, June 96
Meditations In The Sixties: Iii. On Case Inlet, Puget Sound, July 1967
Meditations In The Sixties: Iv. Rocks At La Push, July 1968
Morning In Summer
Night Cats
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 1. Invocation
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 2. Lessons
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 3. Catechism
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 4. Litany
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 5. Evensong
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 6. Meditation
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 7. Benediction
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 8. The Professor
Nine Academic Pieces; Or, The Year-long Office Hour: 9. An Old Faculty
One September Morning
Presence
Proust's Nightmare
The Rhinoceros Who Became Dean
To The Dog, Snubbed By Poets, Who Favor The Feline: 1
To The Dog, Snubbed By Poets, Who Favor The Feline: 2
Trip West
Uncle Sam Spends An Evening At Home
A Vision
Visit
We Aren't Where We Are
Why There Are Birds
A Wreath Of Elegies: 1. Lullaby: Logan, Ohio
A Wreath Of Elegies: 2. Her Ring
A Wreath Of Elegies: 3. Moving West
A Wreath Of Elegies: 4. Her Grief
A Wreath Of Elegies: 5. Her Birthday
A Wreath Of Elegies: 6. Her Fantasy
A Wreath Of Elegies: 7. The Heart
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0912950803
• ISBN 13: 9780912950808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 69