Research Catalog

Title

Crossing borders : selected shorter poems / Peter Dale Scott.

Author

Scott, Peter Dale.

Publication

New York : New Directions, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Scott, Marian Dale, 1906-1993
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

137 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Poems addressing memory, nature, Chinese poets, travel, death--even Liz Taylor. In Liz at Sixty, he commiserates: "each of us imprisoned / in our Disneyland / of absurd efforts / to achieve remembrance / rather than confront / the ultimate question What if there is nothing else?" By the author of Coming to Jakarta.

Series Statement

• New Directions paperbook ; 796
• NDP796

Uniform Title

New Directions paperbook ; 796.

Subject

• Poetry > Collections
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Collections.

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' paperback binding, featuring a drawing by Marian Dale Scott.

Contents

Olive Oatman -- Merced Canyon -- Mount Vogelsang -- Free Climb -- Ephemeris -- Flight -- Watch -- Camass -- Grin -- Letter to Czeslaw Milosz -- Letter to Paul Alpers -- The Loon's Egg -- Argenteuil County -- I Hate Modern Poetry -- Dying In -- Almond Tree -- My Son Rowing -- Talks at the Yenan Forum -- Sora -- Prepositions of Jet Travel -- Alamere -- Eagle -- Mount Tam i. Mischievousness -- Mount Tam ii. Tide -- Mount Tam iii. After the Braque Show -- Mount Tam iv. Fog -- Mount Tam v. The Eel -- Space Sonnets i-ix -- Middle Kingdom i. From Li Bai (Li Po) -- Middle Kingdom ii. From Wang Wei -- Middle Kingdom iii. From Du Fu -- Middle Kingdom iv. From Su Dongpo -- Coppett's Wood Hospital -- Dawn in Miami -- Max Scherr's Party -- "The Achievements of F.R. Scott" -- Reflections on a Fifty-Eighth Birthday -- Waiting in Line -- Za-Zen Window -- Window Za-Zen -- Birdnotes -- Untitled -- Bay to Breakers -- For Du Fu -- Liz at Sixty -- Yin and Yang -- Doll Fetish -- Coast Trail.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1738

ISBN

• 081121284X
• 9780811212847

LCCN

94020526

OCLC

30544038

Author

Scott, Peter Dale.

Title

Crossing borders : selected shorter poems / Peter Dale Scott.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1994.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; 796

NDP796

New Directions paperbook ; 796.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 141.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1738 bound in publishers' paperback binding, featuring a drawing by Marian Dale Scott. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1738 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Scott, Marian Dale, 1906-1993, cover designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

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 22-1738