Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems [by] Louis Simpson.

Author

Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012

Publication

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1965]

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

x, 145 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Drawn from the 1964 Pulitzer Prize winner's four previous works, including twelve new poems.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic
• poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Contents

• Carentan o Carentan -- Summer storm -- Song: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" -- The true weather for women -- As birds are fitted to the boughs -- A woman too well remembered -- The man who married Magdalene -- John the Baptist -- Memories of a lost war -- The battle -- The heroes -- The ash and the oak -- American preludes -- West -- Early in the morning --?gean -- Mississippi -- Islanders -- The green shepherd -- I dreamed that in a city dark as Paris -- A dream of governors -- Orpheus in the underworld -- The flight to Cytherea -- To the western world -- Hot night on Water Street -- The boarder -- Orpheus in America -- An American in the Thieves' Market -- The runner -- Old soldier -- The bird -- The silent generation -- The custom of the world -- The lover's ghost -- The goodnight.
• (Cont.) In California -- In the suburbs -- The redwoods -- There is -- Summer morning -- The silent lover -- Birch -- The morning light -- The cradle trap -- A story about chicken soup -- The troika -- Moving the walls -- Frogs -- My father in the night commanding no -- American poetry -- The inner part -- Night flowers -- On the lawn at the villa -- The riders held back -- Love, my machine -- Wind, clouds, and the delicate curve of the world -- Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain -- Pacific ideas -- A letter to Walt Whitman -- Lines written near San Francisco -- The Union barge on Staten Island -- Black Kettle raises the Stars and Stipes -- Columbus -- The laurel tree -- Things -- Outward -- Tonight the famous psychiatrist -- Stumpfoot on 42nd Street -- The tailor's wedding -- After midnight -- Luminous night -- In the time of Villa.

LCCN

65019069

OCLC

• ocm00287781
• 287781
• SCSB-2072038

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library