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Title

Sacramental acts : the love poems of Kenneth Rexroth / edited and with an introduction by Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura Kleiner.

Author

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xxi, 132 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Love poetry, American

Note

• "Except as noted, these poems were selected from The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (1966); Flower Wreath Hill (date); One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955); One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (1956); Love in the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese (1970); One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1974); Li Ching-chao: Complete Poems (1979); [Women Poets of China; Women Poets of Japan]."

Contents

• A Dialogue of Watching -- Between Myself and Death -- Travelers in Erewhon -- Oaxaca 1925 -- Gradualism -- Open the Blind -- She Is Away -- Mocking Birds -- Loneliness -- From The Thin Edge of Your Pride -- Cinque Terre -- Camargue -- Among the Cypresses at the End of the Way of the Cross -- The Wheel Revolves -- Organization Men in Affluent Society -- A Flute Overheard -- On What Planet -- When We with Sappho -- Runaway -- Inversely, as the Square of Their Distances Apart -- Delia Rexroth -- Still on Water -- Incarnation -- Lute Music -- Floating -- Andree Rexroth -- Lyell's Hypothesis Again -- Yugao -- Andree Rexroth -- Maximian, Elegy V -- For the Chinese Actress, Gardenia Chang -- Rosa Mundi -- Golden Section -- Only Years -- The Reflecting Trees of Being and Not Being -- Homecoming of Love on the Summits of the Wind -- Two poems from Poems from the Greek Anthology -- The Great Canzon -- My Lover Will Soon Be Here -- The Morning Sun Shines --
• When Will I Be Home? -- A Faithful Wife -- To the Tune "The Boat of Stars" -- Creamy Breasts -- Married Love -- To the Tune "Soaring Clouds" -- To the Tune "The Joy of Peace and Brightness" -- From the Persian (1) -- From the Persian (2) -- From the Latin -- "The first time I saw you" -- "When I look at her" -- "The cicada cries out" -- "When I went with you to your ship" -- "The sound of my laughter" -- "The nightingale on the flowering plum" -- "I will remember forever" -- "Out of doors, I think" -- "When I gathered flowers" -- "In the Spring garden" -- "I am so lost" -- "In the passing summer" -- "Once, far over the breakers" -- "Over the old honeymoon cottage" -- The Red Kite -- Equation -- Growing -- Survival of the Fittest -- A Singing Voice -- On a Flyleaf of Rime - Gaspara Stampa -- from Mary and the Seasons -- The American Century -- This Night Only -- At Least That Abandon -- An Easy Song -- Coming -- Pacific Beach -- Maroon Bells -- Aspen Meadows --
• Like Queen Christina -- Northampton, 1922-San Francisco, 1939 -- Andree Rexroth -- Precession of the Equinoxes -- Confusion -- The Lights in the Sky Are Stars -- Confusion of the Senses -- Quietly.

ISBN

1556590806 (pbk.)

LCCN

97033928

OCLC

• 37742222
• ocm37742222

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries