Research Catalog

Title

Thank a bored angel : selected poems / by Samuel Hazo.

Author

Hazo, Samuel, 1928-

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1983.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Breslin, Denise
• Duane, Dick
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Murray Printing Company, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

118 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; NDP555

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1983.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Denise Breslin.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Denise Breslin.

Contents

• Preface -- For a son who will never be born -- Postscript to many letters -- To my mother -- Preface to a poetry reading -- Transition -- Harlequinade -- For a poet who writes and wonders why -- God and man -- For my last class of freshmen -- To a blind student who taught me to see -- Open letter to a closed mind -- Goat-song -- To a bicyclist in France -- Dying under drilling -- Counterclock -- The cleaving -- Pittsburgh in passing -- Elizabeth River ferry -- To a commencement of scoundrels -- Countdown -- Battle news -- No echo in Judea -- For my Aunt Katherine after midnight -- Child of our bodies -- Swim -- The drenching
• Bellbeat -- Lost swimmer -- Voodoo -- From rock -- Skycoast -- Smithereens -- My kings -- My Roosevelt coupé -- Gauntlets -- The jacks -- The torch of blood -- Reprieved -- Of rubble -- A second dark -- The darker noon -- Three made one -- Quartered -- The first and only sailing -- Yoga until -- Splitting -- Anticipating yesterday, remembering tomorrow -- Toasts for the lost lieutenants -- For V after Z -- The Johnstown fly -- On the metroliner I remember that to be is to remember -- Breakfasting with sophomores -- The next time you were there -- Waiting for zero -- Castaway -- Victorious losses -- Flying down the dream
• A city made sacred because your son's grandfather died in it -- The duel that is vertical -- Only the new branches bloom -- Leafing -- Sexes -- The toys -- Living's how we die and vice versa -- Long distance isn't -- Dublin twilight -- The silence at the bottom of the well -- Maps for a son are drawn as you go.

Call Number

JFD 83-5056

ISBN

• 0811208699
• 9780811208697
• 0811208680
• 9780811208680

LCCN

83004129

OCLC

9393138

Author

Hazo, Samuel, 1928-

Title

Thank a bored angel : selected poems / by Samuel Hazo.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1983.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; NDP555

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 109

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1029 bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Denise Breslin. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1030 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Denise Breslin. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1029, 22-1030 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Breslin, Denise, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

Duane, Dick, photographer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Murray Printing Company, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1029

Berg Coll 22-1030

JFD 83-5056