Research Catalog

Title

Words brushed by music : twenty-five years of the Johns Hopkins poetry series / edited by John T. Irwin ; with a foreword by Anthony Hect.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Irwin, John T.

Description

xvi, 176 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Subject

American poetry > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Anthony Hecht -- Song of the darkness / John Bricuth -- Villanelle : "we're dancing now..." / John Bricuth -- Talking big / John Bricuth -- The touch / John Bricuth -- Love and fame / John Burt -- What Ellen said / John Burt -- 1938 / John Burt -- Turning in bed / Thomas Carper -- That's a nice leg / Thomas Carper -- Talking with Charlot / Thomas Carper -- I am just the same / Thomas Carper -- Roses / Thomas Carper -- Funny face / Thomas Carper -- How mother is / Thomas Carper -- Mystery baseball / Philip Dacey -- Sleeping parents, wakeful children / Philip Dacey -- The living room / Philip Dacey -- Bedtime song / Philip Dacey -- In defense of Forest Lawn / Tom Disch -- Entropic villanelle / Tom Disch -- D. W. Richmond gives directions to the architect of his tomb / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : I am just a plain poet / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : something people don't realize / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : I who have gone through the whole gamut / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : minor poets are human too / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : bowling has been the great spirit / Tom Disch -- The Joycelin Shrager poem : when I am sick science fiction / Tom Disch -- On Spadina avenue / Emily Grosholz -- Life of a salesman / Emily Grosholz -- Eden / Emily Grosholz -- Riding skills / Vicki Hearne -- The dog and the word / Vicki Hearne -- Danes and wolfhounds / Vicki Hearne -- Blue wine / John Hollander -- The cable-car / John Hollander -- The patch of garden / John Hollander -- Piano interlude / John Hollander -- Special sessions / John Hollander -- From a house party / John Hollander -- Suite for all clowns' day / Josephine Jacobsen -- The minor poet / Josephine Jacobsen -- Birdsong of the lesser poet / Josephine Jacobsen -- Mr. Mahoney / Josephine Jacobsen -- Survivor's ballad / Josephine Jacobsen -- You can take it with you / Josephine Jacobsen -- The blue-eyed exterminator / Josephine Jacobsen -- Woman in rain / X. J. Kennedy -- Twelve dead, hundreds homeless / X. J. Kennedy -- Veterinarian / X. J. Kennedy -- The animals you eat / X. J. Kennedy -- On being accused of wit / X. J. Kennedy -- Ambition / X. J. Kennedy -- Jimmy Harlow / X. J. Kennedy -- Death of a first child / X. J. Kennedy -- A curse on a thief / X. J. Kennedy -- Maples in January / X. J. Kennedy -- A burial at Shanidar / Charles Martin -- E.S.L. / Charles Martin -- Making faces / Charles Martin -- Flying heads / Charles Martin -- Stanzas after endgame / Charles Martin -- Departing words to a son / Robert Pack -- A modest boast at meridian / Robert Pack -- The shooting / Robert Pack -- Raking leaves / Robert Pack -- In the waking / Robert Pack -- A cage in search of a bird / Robert Pack -- A bird in search of a cage / Robert Pack -- The stone crab : a love poem / Robert Phillips -- I remember, I remember / Robert Phillips -- 603 Cross River Road / Robert Phillips -- A child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953 / Wyatt Prunty -- Haying / Wyatt Prunty -- The Ferris wheel / Wyatt Prunty -- Elderly lady crossing on green / Wyatt Prunty -- A note of thanks / Wyatt Prunty -- Learning the bicycle / Wyatt Prunty -- A winter's tale / Wyatt Prunty -- Watching you sleep under Monet's water lilies / Gibbons Ruark -- With our wives in late October / Gibbons Ruark -- For the pause before we decorate the tree / Gibbons Ruark -- Waiting for you with the swallows / Gibbons Ruark -- Words to accompany a leaf from the great copper beech at coole / Gibbons Ruark -- Listening to Fats Waller in late light / Gibbons Ruark -- The world below the window / William Jay Smith -- Pidgin pinch / William Jay Smith -- Now touch the air softly / William Jay Smith -- Morels / William Jay Smith -- Journey to the interior / William Jay Smith -- The shipwreck / William Jay Smith -- Galileo galilei / William Jay Smith -- Villanelle / William Jay Smith -- American primitive / William Jay Smith -- The ten / William Jay Smith -- Still life / William Jay Smith -- Mr. Smith / William Jay Smith -- Blind in his sorrow / Barry Spacks -- Three songs for my daughter / Barry Spacks -- My clothes / Barry Spacks -- Recommendations / Barry Spacks -- Glory learnt from roses / Barry Spacks -- Neilsen / Barry Spacks -- Aurora / Timothy Steele -- Beatitudes, while setting out the trash / Timothy Steele -- Portrait of the artist as a young child / Timothy Steele -- Pacific rim / Timothy Steele -- Elegy / David St. John -- Hush / David St. John -- Mote / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Tree service / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Message / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Self-portrait / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Drumcliffe : passing by / Adrien Stoutenburg.

ISBN

• 0801880289 (alk. paper)
• 0801880297 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004009044

OCLC

• ocm55037942
• SCSB-5078347

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries