The Collected Poems of James Laughlin - Hardcover

Laughlin, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559210672 ISBN 13: 9781559210676

Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

In the literary world James Laughlin is best known as the publisher of New Directions Books. But he has also been a dedicated poet. His work is both modern - rich in technical experiment - and ancient - grounded in the Greek and Latin poets. Guy Davenport has called Laughlin "a very ironic Roman poet, and a very salty Greek one. Which is not to say that he imitates anybody, or offers plaster casts of antiquities. He is the youngest and most modern poet now writing in the United States. He is the real thing." Laughlin describes himself as a writer of light verse. He can be witty but underneath the wit there are often pungent truths about the human condition. His work is notable for its range of subject matter, the originality of its invention, his restoration of the classical tradition, his wordplay, his satire, and the intensity of his love poems. Few poets have dealt with the quandaries of love so acutely since Rochester and Herrick. "Who else today," asks the critic Marjorie Perloff, "writes such bittersweet, ironic, rueful, erotic, tough-minded, witty love poems, poems that run the gamut from ecstacy to loss"?
This volume collects Laughlin's poems from 1935 to 1993. His Random Stories and Random Essays are also published by Moyer Bell.

About this title

About the Author:

James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.

Review:

Il Pastor Fido
V
Vita Nuova: 20
Above The City
Across The Wide Water Lay Japan
Admonition
Advice To Aurelius
After Martial
After Rochester (or Somebody)
Alba
Amo Amas Amat
Among The Roses
'and I Long And Yearn In My Pain'
And Ole Ez Said That The
And Will That Magic World
An Anginal Equivalent
An Anti-love Poem
Antiphilus
An Apotropaic Decision
Apsarases
Arachne
Ars Gratia Artis
As In Music / A Reprise / Across Time
Asmodeus
At Benares
At Eleusis
At Our House
At The Boule D'or
The Atman
The Atman Of Sleep
The Avalanche
Ave Atque Vale
A Bad Night On Third Avenue
The Bavarian Gentian
The Beautiful Muttering
The Beautiful One
Before I Die (for Jeanine Lambert)
The Believer
Berenice
The Bible Lady
The Bird Of Endless Time
A Bit Different
Bless You, Mr. President
The Blowpipe Game
The Blue Flower
The Blue Footprints
The Box
The Bubble Bed
Building 520, Bellevue
Busy Day
By The Numbers
Can I Catch Up With The Future?
Can Language Be Taught With The Fingertips?
Can There Be A Female Bodhissatva?
The Cardiac Autoscope (advertisement)
The Care And Feeding Of A Poet
Carmina Gemina
The Child
The Chimeras Of Saint Helena
Cincinnatus In Utah
The Cold
The Coming Of Spring
Confessio Amantis
Confidential Report
Cordelia
The Creatures Of Prometheus
Crucifixion In The Desert
Crystal Market Place
Cultural Note
A Curious Romance
Cynthia In California
Da Mi Basia Mille
The Dance Of The Skin
Danger / Road Under Repair
The Dark Mutinous Shannon Waves
De Contemptu Mundi
The Death Walkers
Deathfear
The Deconstructed Man
The Deep Pool
Die Heimat
Digging Down To China
The Doppelgaengers
Down We Go
The Drawing Lesson
Dream Not Of Other Worlds
Dropkick Me Jesus
Dylan
Easter In Pittsburgh
Ein Kitzbuehler Tag (1947)
Ein Kleines Herzlied
El Camino De Amor
Elle Dit Que Je Mets Des Gants
Elle N'est Plus Noctambule
Elusive Time
The Empty Room
Encounter At The Casino, Aix-les-bains
The End Of It All
The Endless Mirrors
The Enlacement
The Eraser
The Ermine
Eros As Archaeologist
The Escape
Ever So
Experience Of Blood
Eyes Are The Guides Of Love
A Failure Of Communication In The Animal Kingdom
The Family Council Of The Yakolevs
The Family Portrait
The Fate Of Actaeon
Figlio Mio
The Firefly
The First Night
The First Time
The Fisherwoman
Flavius To Postumia
Floating
Floating Free
Folk Wisdom
For Guy Davenport's Tomcat Humphrey Died .. Pursuit Of Love
For The First Time
Fragments From America I Love You
The French
The Frightened Bird
The Full Life
The Garden Of Delights
The Generations
Getting Paid
Girls As Windmills
Go West Young Man
God Bless America!
The Goddess
A Graceful Exit
Gracious Living
The Hand Trick
The Happy Poets (1)
Hard To Translate
Having Failed
'he Did It To Please His Mother'
He Dreamed His Death
He Lives In A Box
Her Letters
Her Reply
Her Sweet Deceit
Here I Am
Herodotus Reports
Highway 66
The Hitchhiker
Holes
The Holy Rivers
Hope Springs
The Hour Glass
The House Of Light
How Does It Look?
How Fortunate
The Hunting Dog
I Am A Preposterous Beetle
I Am Aware
I Am The Metoposcoper
I Cannot Command You
I Don't Know Where She Is Wandering Tonight
I Float Between The Spheres
I Hate Love
I Have Drifted A Short Distance From Myself
I Have Heard
I Know How Ever Poet
I Like To Think Of You
I Like You
I Live In Three Worlds
I Love The Way
I Love Therefore I Am - I Suffer But I'm Alive
I Love To See You
I Saw Her First
I Take A Certain Pride
I Want To Be Echopractic
I Want To Breathe
I'd Like To Be Putty
I'm Fed Up With My Life
I'm Not Lucky With Girls
If A Poet
If In The Night I Wake
If You Are Only Flirting
The Importance Of Dictionaries
The Importance Of Silence
In Another Country
In Darmstadt
In Egypt's Land
In Hac Spe Vivo
In Half Darkness
In The Ballet
In The Museum At Teheran
In The Salzkammergut
In The Snow
In The Train
The Infantile Language
Ingenium Nobis Ipsa Puella Facit
The Inn At Kirchstetten
The Inner Life Of The Septic Tank; Invitation
The Interdiction
Into Each Life
The Inviolable Maiden
Ipse Dixit
Is It Written
Is There A Danger
It Can Happen
It Does Me Good
It Was All
It's Indelicate
It's March
It's Warm Under Your Thumb
J'ame Donce Je Suis - Je Souffre Mais Je Vis
J'ignore Ou Elle Vague Ce Soir
James My Namesake
Je Ne Suis Pas Veinard
Je Suis Raplaplat
Je Suis Un Cerf-volant Saugrenu
The Jealous Gods
A Job Description
The Judges Of The Secret Court
The Junk Collector
The Kenner's Cat
The Kind-hearted Americans Are
The King's Bowman
The Kiss
Kissing
Knowledge
L'abecederien De La Lubricite
L'hermine
La Fleur Bleue
La Gomme A Effacer
La Luciole
La Tristesse
A Lady Asks Me
The Lament Of Professor Turbojet
The Large Opera Singer
The Last Caresss
The Last Poem To Be Written
Last Words
Layers
Le Hoqueton
Le Jardin Des Delices
Le Voyage Innome
A Leave-taking
Les Amants
Les Chimeres De Sainte-helene
Les Mots Secrets
Les Patineurs
A Letter To Hitler
Like Him I Need The Past
Like The Octopus
The Limper
Lines After Cummings
Lines To Be Put Into Latin
The Little Dog Laughs
A Little Heartsong
Logistics
The Long Night
The Long-distance Runner
The Lost Secrets
Love Is A School
Love Is Cumulative
Love's Altar
Love, The Giver Of Sweet Gifts, Gave Thee To Me, Heliodora
M&k
The Maker Of Dreams
Making A Love Poem
Maledicti In Plebe Sint
Market Discounts Love
Martha Graham
The Mathematics Of Chaos
The Maze
Mei Axis Mundi
Merry Madness Hall
Metropolitan Bard
The Mirror Girl
A Modest Proposal
A Moment On Earth
Mon Secret
Moon & Sun
The Moths; Remembering Vladimir Nabokov
The Mountain
The Mountain Afterglow
The Munich Courier
My Ambition
My Granddaughter
My Instructions
My Muse
My Old Gray Sweater
My Secret
The Mysterious Disappearance
The Nameless Voyage
Near Zermatt: The Drahtseilbahn
The Nereid
A Night At The Opera
No Comparison
No My Dear
The Non-world
Nothing That's Lovely Can My Love Escape
Now Love Speaks
Now Strike The Golden Lyre Again
Nowadays
O Freres Humains
O Hermes Trismegistus
Obsession
Occidit Brevis Lux
The Old Comedian
Old Dr. God
On The Gift Of A Sapphire To My Wife Ann
Orphee
Orpheus
Our Bicycles
Our Meetings
Out In The Pasture
The Owl Of Minerva
Paintings In The Museums Of Munich And Venice
A Parable
The Party On Olympus
Patent Pending
The People Boxes
Persephone Wears Bluejeans
The Person
A Piteous Sight
The Poem Factory
The Poem Seen As A Shell Game
Poets
The Power Of Poesy
Preguntas Sin Respuestas, For Nicanor Parra
Premula's Problem (after Catallus)
The Prisoner Of Childhood
The Prisoner's Song
The Problem Struck Me
Prognosis
Properate Tempus
The Questions
Qui Nunquam Amavit
Ravings Of The Depraved Monk Benno Of St. Gall ...
Reading The Obituary Page In The Times
Real Bones
The Reclining Position
Remembrance
The Return Of Love
The Revenants
Rhyme
The Rodent
Rome: In The Cafe
The Sacks
Saeta
Saxo Cere
The Scribe
The Secret Words
The Secretary's Story
The Shameful Profession
A Shard Of History
She Asks Me
She Is So Practical
She Said In Apology
She Seemed To Know
She Shays That I Put On Gloves
She Walks No Longer In The Night
The Ship
The Sinking Stone
The Skaters
Skiing Without Skis
A Sleepless Night
A Small Group
The Smallest Blessing
Snow In May
So Much Depends
So Slender
Social Note
Some Memories Of E.p. (drafts & Fragments)
Some Of Us Come To Live
Some People Think
Somewhere In France
Song
Song Of The Gi's & The Mg
The Songbird
Sorrow
The Sorrows Of Smindyrides
Step On His Head
Still Pond No More Moving
The Stranger In The House
Stuttgart: In A Nightclub (illegal)
A Suggestion
The Summons
The Swarming Bees
A Sweet Kiss
Take Off Your Socks!
Tanka
Technical Notes
Temporary Poems
Ten Dollars Reward
Tennessee
Terror
That Click
That Other World
Then And Now
This Is The Morte Season
This One Rhymes
Three Skirmishes In The Endless Battle
Timor Amoris Conturbat Me
To Kalon
To My Lady In A Distant Land That She Forget Me Not
To Smile Or Not To Smile
To The Body
To The Father
Touching
The Tragedy Of Time
A Translation
The Trout
Tuesday At 87 Rue De Rome
Two Children
Two Fragments From Pausanis: At Methana
Two Fragments From Pausanis: I Am Not Pittheus
Two Letters On Samos: Philaenis To Posidippus
Two Letters On Samos: Posidippus To Philaenis
Two Parables From 'the Ocean Of Story': 1
Two Parables From 'the Ocean Of Story': 2
Two Ships
Two Spoons
The Unanswerable Question
Under His Microscope
The Unenlightened Face
The Unsatisfactory Dream
Upstate New York
The Vagrant
The Visitor
The Voices
The Waiters' Ballet
Waiting For The Light
We Met In A Dream
We Sit By The Lake
The Welcome
Well All Right
What Are You Smiling About
What Is It Makes One Girl
What Is The Need
What Matters
What The Animals Did
What The Pencil Writes
When Does The Play Begin (a Political Poem)
When I'm Missing You
When You Danced
Who Is The Child
Why
Why Do You Never Enter My Dreams
Why Not?
Why Shouldn't I
The Wild Anemone
Will We Ever Go To The Lighthouse
With My Third Eye
Write On My Tomb
You Are My Disease
You Are My Future
You Came As A Thought
You Came As A Thought
You Have Burned
You Invited Me
You Know How A Cat
You Were Asleep
You've Set The Words
Your Early Life
Your Error
Your Eyes
Your Love
Epigram: 1, 62
Dieu! Qu'il La Fait
O Best Of All Nights, Return And Return Again
Odes I, 1, Sels.
Bearing Great Gifts
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1559210672
• ISBN 13: 9781559210676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608