Night Music Poems

Name: Night Music Poems
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ISBN: 9780395925706

ISBN-10: 0395925703

ISBN-13: 9780395925706

Edition: 1999

Authors: HarperCollins Publishers, Peter Davison, Edward Hirsch

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Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Foreword



Parents in Winter


East Congress and McDougall Streets, Detroit, May 25


Henley, July 4: 1914-1964


A College Room: Lowell R-34, 1945


The Museum of Comparative Zoology


Stillman Infirmary


In and Out: Severance of Connections, 1946


In and Out: A Home Away from Home, 1947


The Tree Warden


Our Literary Heritage


Just a Whack at Empson


Dear George Orwell, 1950-1965


Peace Comes to Still River, Mass


The Marschallin, Joy Street, July 3, 1949


Sondra Dead or Alive


Man and Wife


Two Happenings in Boston


The West Forties: Morning, Noon, and Night


The Nanny Boat, 1957


Love-Making; April; Middle Age


Dying: An Introduction


Canzone: Aubade


A Deathplace


Small Space


Visiting Chaos


Safety at Forty: or, An Abecedarian Takes a Walk


Solo, Head Tide


The Village: The Seasons


A War Requiem


The Big Rock-Candy Mountain


Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen: A Mouth-organ Tune


In Bardbury


A Loss of Largess; Its Recapture (And Point After)


J. J.'s Levee, 1946


Love Day, 1945


At the Bar, 1948


A Late Good Night


Cockaigne: A Dream


Three American Dreams: A Suite in Phillips House


Negatives


December 27, 1966


Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite


Cancer: A Dream


Tras Os Montes


A Note on the Text