Research Catalog

Title

The blood of the poet : selected poems / William Everson ; edited and with an afterword by Albert Gelpi.

Author

Everson, William, 1912-1994.

Publication

Seattle : Broken Moon Press, [1994]

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Details

Additional Authors

Gelpi, Albert.

Description

278 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• October Tragedy -- Winter Ploughing -- Muscat Pruning -- Attila -- We in the Fields -- August -- Bard -- The Rain on That Morning -- Orion -- The Hare: An Earlier Episode -- Lava Bed -- The Residual Years -- The Answer -- Eastward the Armies -- The Raid -- from Chronicle of Division: V -- In the Fictive Wish -- from The Blowing of the Seed: IV, V, VI -- The Dusk -- from Tiptych for the Living: III The Wise -- from The Falling of the Grain: V In the Ripeness of the Weed -- from The Falling of the Grain: VI The Burning Book -- The Screed of the Flesh -- A Canticle to the Waterbirds -- The Encounter -- from The Cross Tore a Hole -- A Canticle to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist -- The South Coast -- Annul in Me My Manhood -- Out of the Ash -- from River-Root: A Syzygy -- Passion Week -- You, God -- A Frost Lay White on California -- I Am Long Weaned -- In the Breach -- In All These Acts -- God Germed in Raw Granite -- The Song the Body Dreamed in the Spirit's Mad Behest.
• The Poet Is Dead: A Memorial for Robinson Jeffers -- The Kiss of the Cross -- The Canticle of the Rose -- The Rose of Solitude -- The Vision of Felicity -- The Raging of the Rose -- Tendril in the Mesh -- The Narrows of Birth -- The Challenge -- The Scout -- The Black Hills -- Dark Waters -- Storm-Surge -- Steelhead -- Cutting the Firebreak -- Rattlesnake August -- Kingfisher Flat -- Bride of the Bear -- Spotfire -- The High Embrace -- Stone Face Falls -- Spikehorn -- Sixty Five -- Danse Macabre -- Reaper -- The Blood of the Poet -- Afterword: Under the Sign of Woman / Albert Gelpi.

ISBN

0913089427 (pbk.) :

LCCN

93071566

OCLC

ocm30533157

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries