Research Catalog

Title

How to do things with tears / by Allen Grossman.

Author

Grossman, Allen R., 1932-

Publication

New York : New Directions, 2001.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• New Directions Publishing.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 98 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Collection of poetry.

Subject

Poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.
• "A New Directions paperbook original, NPD912"--P. [4] of cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What these poems undertake to do -- How to do Things with Tears -- How to do things with tears -- Enough rain for Agnes Walquist -- Elsie Young, aged pensioner, on Purgatory Mountain -- Truluv the sailor -- Brighter than glass -- Epistola -- White Sails -- White sails: Notes toward the autobiography of an American poet -- Dedicated to Irene on the threshold of the world -- Hello! -- Luth. Sch. -- The Chinese pot -- White sales -- The kiss-stone of the Fate -- Winter road to the Cities -- John the leaping deer -- Cure -- Marriage -- Wallace Stevens entertains a sex worker -- In the incomprehensible house -- Stain -- Her torn afghan -- A woman and a girl feed pigs at sundown -- A great jolt to start -- Think again -- Not all wanderers are lost -- Do Not be Content with an Imaginary God -- Weird River -- Flora's ABC: 6 Perseid sonnets, meteors of late August -- Shazam! -- Reason for eating pig -- Latch: bespoke coffin-maker in purgatory -- A Grand Caprice -- Thunderstruck -- X-rated -- Your laughing lover -- Crow -- Star Asper -- Three Notes on Common Concerns under Star Asper -- Stanzas on pots -- Stanzas on poetic realism -- Ilona's letter.

ISBN

0811214648 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00050093^

OCLC

45172305

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library