Research Catalog

Title

The arrival / Daniel Simko ; edited by Carolyn Forché and James Reidel.

Author

Simko, Daniel.

Publication

New York : Four Way Books ; Lebanon, NH : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Forché, Carolyn
• Reidel, James.
• Forché, Carolyn
• Reidel, James
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

iv, 84 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This book contains a posthumous collection of poetry by Czech born, New York City poet, writer, and translator Daniel Simko.

Series Statement

A Stahlecker series selection

Uniform Title

Stahlecker series selection.

Subject

• Simko, Daniel > Poetry
• 2000-2099
• Czech American poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction (starting p. 1) -- Departures (starting p. 3) -- Winter Music (starting p. 4) -- Homage to Georg Trakl (starting p. 5) -- January (starting p. 7) -- Still Life: A Treatment (starting p. 8) -- Deposition (starting p. 9) -- Far (starting p. 10) -- Coda (starting p. 11) -- At 4 a.m (starting p. 12) -- Against Our Forgetting (starting p. 13) -- Three Songs (starting p. 18) -- The Room (starting p. 20) -- Imagining a Sister (starting p. 21) -- Mythology / From the Fragments (starting p. 22) -- Resolution (starting p. 23) -- Dust (starting p. 24) -- A Late Awakening (starting p. 26) -- The Arrival (starting p. 27) -- Nocturne (starting p. 28) -- To Max Jacob in the Blue (starting p. 29) -- A Poem in Your Name (starting p. 31) -- The Lesson (starting p. 33) -- Thinking of My Father / On a Bus to Baltimore (starting p. 34) -- The Suicide (starting p. 35) -- Prayer (starting p. 36) -- Duet after Rain (starting p. 37) -- The Jewish Cemetery in Prague (starting p. 38) -- A Meditation on Lines by Sandor Csoori (starting p. 39) -- Gavrilo Princip Thinks of His Highness (starting p. 40) -- Coming Home (starting p. 41) -- A Field of Red Poppies (starting p. 42) -- Rene Char (starting p. 43) -- Answer (starting p. 44) -- Afterwards (starting p. 45) -- From the Bestiary (starting p. 46) -- Fragments & Abandoned Verse -- Lament (starting p. 53) -- Autumn 1979, Brooklyn (starting p. 55) -- A Photograph of Us (starting p. 56) -- Romanza Andaluza (starting p. 57) -- Thinking about a Holocaust Victim (starting p. 59) -- The Tribes (starting p. 60) -- Requiem (starting p. 62) -- Beating (starting p. 64) -- A Small Ceremony (starting p. 65) -- Ballade (starting p. 67) -- Pavese, a Departure, a Romance (starting p. 69) -- A Fragment after Robert Desnos (starting p. 70) -- A Little Music (starting p. 72) -- Demonology (starting p. 73) -- December 1992 (starting p. 74) -- Proverbs (of the Seas?) (starting p. 75) -- The World Within a Lost Glove (starting p. 76) -- Untitled Fragment (starting p. 77) -- Notes (starting p. 78) -- Bread for Another Day (starting p. 79) -- Your Sleep, Endymion (starting p. 80) -- A Dream of My Death (starting p. 82) -- The Hand (starting p. 84)

ISBN

• 9781884800924 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 1884800920 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2009004716

OCLC

301798517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library