Research Catalog

Title

David's copy : the selected poems of David Meltzer / introduction by Jerome Rothenberg ; edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg.

Author

Meltzer, David.

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rothenberg, Michael.

Description

xxi, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Penguin poets

Uniform Title

Penguin poets.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261).

Contents

Foreword / Michael Rothenberg -- Introduction / Jerome Rothenberg -- Now for instance the idiot -- ... from an untitled long poem -- Vision -- 2nd raga : the woods -- Revelation -- From : Night before morning -- For Joey Loewinsohn, age : 4 months, 9 days -- 15th Raga / for Bela Lugosi -- Moon tunes -- Poem for Tuolumne's first & last artist investigator of truth -- 6th raga / for Bob Alexander -- A poem for my wife -- This morning -- Self-portrait -- The Luna Park fire -- The blackest rose -- Youth rite reels -- A rent tract for Lew Welch -- Tishoh B'Ov, 1952 -- "To shut my eyes & awaken" -- Mahshav, Mitva, Miktav -- Oyez! -- The bath -- New year's poem : 1967 -- From : The clown (1959) for Wallace Berman -- Lamentation for Zap the Zen monk -- Lamentation for Celine -- Lamentation for Jack Spicer -- "The Jew in me is the ghost of me" -- Chthonic fragments : 1 -- Chthonic fragments : 2 -- Hymnus -- Record player -- From Eden book -- The argument -- The argument : 2 -- The argument : 3 -- Nature poem -- Notes for a poem to H. P. Lovecraft -- Sonnet : 1 -- Songs earth & moon sing after supper -- O sister -- Sonnet : 6 -- Flight poem -- Luna tunes : poems for my daughters Jenny, Maggie, & Amanda Rose -- "The moon's a neighborhood, a block" -- It's simple -- Letters & numbers -- One -- Vashon Island light -- From : The Hollywood poems -- The fire -- Lamentation for Hank Williams -- Mongol mutt -- Hero in the air -- Hero on land -- Hero rides the rails -- Hero's mom -- Hero in parts -- From : Lil -- From : Lil, the second shell -- From : Bark, a polemic -- From : Blue rags -- From : Vav -- From : Face -- "Tongue." -- From : The veil -- From : The art -- Entries -- Notes for Asaph -- 17:II:82 -- 18:VI:82 -- Darn that dream -- Bolero -- The red shoes -- Ninety forty-five -- Brother -- The eyes, the blood -- Monkey -- "Wood heart sound-board Bach suite" -- "Who's the Jew ..." -- "Old reds ..." -- Millennial -- No eyes : Lester Young -- Beat thing : commentary -- Shema (1982) -- Shema (2004) -- The insane ain sof aur rite as sleepwalked by Rebbe Yaakov Yosef ben Ariel as charted & diagrammed by Rube Goldberg & framed by Henny Youngman -- From : Reds vs Feds -- Tech -- Breaking up -- Alien(s).

ISBN

0143036181

LCCN

2005043374

OCLC

• OCM58526799
• SCSB-5215800

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries