Research Catalog

Title

Body of waking [poems.

Author

Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980.

Publication

• New York, Harper [1958]
• © 1958

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

118 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Two long poems as well as recent short poetry, including a group of translations from the Spanish of Octavio Paz.

Subject

• American poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Contents

• Haying before storm -- Phaneron -- The young girl of the Mississippi Valley -- A birth -- King's mountain -- Mother Garden's round -- Rite -- Ringling -- After their quarrel -- Tree -- Night feeding -- The return -- Unborn song -- The two illuminations -- F.O.M. -- Exile of music -- On the death of her mother -- Make and be eaten, the poet says -- Hero speech -- The watchers -- A ballad theme -- Asleep and awake -- Of money, and the past -- "Long enough, long enough" -- The loan -- Pouring milk away -- Children, the sandbar, that summer -- Born in December -- The sixth night: Waking -- Nevertheless the moon -- Speed, we say -- The birth of Venus -- The place at Alert Bay -- Voices of waking -- Divining water -- (Translations: Octavio Paz) The hand of day opens -- At daybreak go looking for your newborn name -- Fable -- Day -- Proverbs -- In her splendor islanded -- Like ivy the creeper with a thousand hands -- Life of the poet -- The prisoner -- from Sun stone.
• (Cont.) Suite for Lord Timothy Dexter -- Are you born? I -- Murmurs from the earth of this land, from the caves and craters -- The tree of rivers seen and forgotten -- The power of war leads to a plan of lives -- A tree of rivers flowing through our lives -- The sea has opened, the limit of his dream -- Powerplant -- In the last hour of night, a zebra racing dawn -- Fields where we slept -- Portrait of a man, with a background of holdings -- The red bridge -- Power never dominion -- The sky is as black as it was when you lay down -- On your journey you will come to a time of waking -- This is the net of begetting and belief -- Body of waking -- Sounds of night in the country of the opposites -- Willkie in The Gulliver -- Then full awake you will recognize the voice -- In your time, there have been those who spoke clearly -- No one ever walking this our only Earth -- Are you born? II.

LCCN

57011788

OCLC

• ocm00715750
• 715750
• SCSB-8918458

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library