Research Catalog

Title

Rivers into islands : a book of poems / by John Knoepfle.

Author

Knoepfle, John.

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

University of Chicago. Press, publisher.

Description

viii, 55, [1] pages; 21 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry

Contents

Good-bye, banjos -- Harpe's head -- East St. Louis -- Country sweat -- Old woman's gift -- Diesel -- Street sounds -- Pensioners in a park -- Sparrows -- Late shift in the mill -- Evening departure -- Country night -- Night of stars and flowers -- Driftwood fire -- John Hnery -- The white mule -- At Marietta, Ohio -- Keelboatman's horn -- Church of Rose of Lima, Cincinnati -- The other night in Guatemala -- October scrimmage -- Prospector's grave -- Missouri hermit -- Beat poets -- Riverfront, St. Louis -- Hungarian revolution -- American fable -- Night fire -- St. Louis midday -- St. Louis midnight -- Drifting -- Meeting in Chicago -- Holy land -- Edwardsville before sunrise -- Old crazy fellow -- North on one-eleven -- Easter -- Heman Avenue holiday -- October drought -- For a child who lived six hours -- Down Solomon -- My son reads this poem -- The washer of bodies: lines for García Lorca -- Sleep on a August night -- Chipmunks -- Mother of the hero -- Lines for my grandfather -- Hampton Road -- Encounter on Delmar Boulevard -- Old moon planter -- Short note -- Sisters -- For a student -- April return to Cincinnati -- June night on the river -- Buffalo skulls -- Death after promise.

LCCN

65018338

OCLC

• ocm02435221
• 2435221
• SCSB-835996

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library