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Effort at Speech New and Selected Poems

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ISBN-10: 0810150719

ISBN-13: 9780810150713

Edition: 1997

Authors: William Meredith

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 231
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Foreword
A Kodiak Poem
In Memoriam Stratton Christensen
Navy Field
Myself, Rousseau, a Few Others
A Metaphysical Sonnet
Winter Song
Quartet in F Major
Notes for an Elegy
June: Dutch Harbor
For Air Heroes
Airman's Virtue
Ten-Day Leave
Envoi
Carrier
Transport
Battlewagon
'Do Not Embrace Your Mind's New Negro Friend'
A Birthday Exercise
Perhaps the Best Time
In a Copy of Yeats' Poems
A Major Work
In Memory of Donald A. Stauffer
The Open Sea
Sonnet on Rare Animals
Notre Dame de Chartres
Starlight
On Falling Asleep by Firelight
The Illiterate
Sunrise with Crows
A View of the Brooklyn Bridge
Godchildren
Miniature
An Account of a Visit to Hawaii
The Fishvendor
Original Aversions
The Fear of Beasts
The Chinese Banyan
Bachelor
Homage to a Rake-Hell
Two Japanese Poems
Pastoral
Thoughts on One's Head (In Plaster, with a Bronze Wash)
Rus in Urbe
Letter from Mexico (Vera Cruz, 10 February, 186-)
A Korean Woman Seated by a Wall
The Wreck of the Thresher (Lost at Sea, April 10, 1963)
Orpheus
On Falling Asleep to Birdsong
For His Father
Roots
An Old Field Mowed for Appearances' Sake
An Assent to Wildflowers
For Guillaume Apollinaire
Five Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Translations)
Fables about Error
The Couple Overhead
The Ballet
Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
About Poetry
The Preponderance
An Old Photograph of Strangers
Consequences
Winter Verse for His Sister
Waking Dream about a Lost Child
Fledglings
Walter Jenks' Bath
Poem about Morning
Effort at Speech
Hydraulics
About Opera
Dalhousie Farm
Whorls
In Memory of Robert Frost
Earth Walk
Last Things
Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
Hazard's Optimism
Music
Wholesome
Politics
Where He's Staying Now
Squire Hazard Walks
Look at Me! Look at Me!
His Plans for Old Age
At the Natural History Museum
Rhode Island
The Ghosts of the House
Nausea
Nixon's the One
February 14
Winter: He Shapes Up
The cheer
Winter on the River
Two Masks Unearthed in Bulgaria
Freezing
Recollection of Bellagio
Country Stars
Homage to Paul Mellon, I. M. Pei, Their Gallery, and Washington City
On Jenkins' Hill
A Firescreen at Mount Vernon
A Mild-Spoken Citizen Finally Writes to the White House
Accidents of Birth
At the Confluence of the Colorado and the Little Colorado
Poem
The Seasons' Difference
For Two Lovers in the Year 2075 in the Canadian Woods
Memoirs
Give and Take
Parents
My Mother's Life
Ideogram
Grievances
Here and There
Remembering Robert Lowell
Dreams of Suicide
In Loving Memory of the Late Author of Dream Songs
John and Anne
Dying Away
The Revenant
Crossing Over
Not Both
REM Sleep
Of Kindness
Examples of Created Systems
The American Living Room: A Tract
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
The Three Sorts of Violence
Among Ourselves
In the Rif Mountains
Tree Marriage
Talking Back (To W. H. Auden)
A Couple of Trees
What I Remember the Writers Telling Me When I Was Young
Of Possessions, in Winter
His Students
At the Prado
Journal Entry (With the Udalls, June 1968)
Journal Entry (April 1969, Villa Serbelloni)
A Vision of Good Secrets
The Quarrel
'In the Middle of the Long Friendship'
Poem to Me
Housed (A Report on a Visiting Dog)
English Accounts
Grace
A Note about the Author