Owner of the House New Collected Poems 1940-2001

Name: Owner of the House New Collected Poems 1940-2001
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ISBN: 9781929918393

ISBN-10: 1929918399

ISBN-13: 9781929918393

Edition: 2003

Authors: Louis Simpson

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Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual's maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover's quarrel with the world. "Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways . . . of making do with our lives. Then his intelligence cajoles us to the brink of a cliff of solitude and we step over into the buoyant element of true poetry."-Seamus Heaney Educated at Munro College (West…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Educated at Munro College (Jamaica, West Indies) and at Columbia where he received his doctorate, Louis Simpson has taught at various universities. The author of seventeen books of poetry, he has received the Rome Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Hudson Review Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, and the Pulitzer Prize.



The Long Afternoon


Nero in Love


A Letter from Brazil


An Old Building on Hudson Street


The Appointment


An Orchid


The Listeners


The Willies


Inspiration


A Wandering Life


The Blue Coast


Lilies of the Field


All Sorts of Things


The Floor Lamp


"He's asleep"


In Country Houses


Country Doctor


The Fence


At Journey's End


Foursome


Wash, Dry, and Fold


Any Time Now


Sanctuary Road


Kaimana Beach


Peter's Dream


A Walk with Goethe


A Walk with Basho


Confessions of a Professor of English


A Farewell to His Muse


Footnotes to Fodor's Spain


Homeless Men


In the Alpha Cradle


Reading the Times


The Wow! Factor


Driving


A Shearling Coat


Graduation


Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich


At the Church Door


The Children's Choir


Grand Forks


The Owner of the House


Arm in Arm


Lazarus Convalescent


Summer Storm


A Witty War


Carentan O Carentan


Song: "Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May"


As Birds Are Fitted to the Boughs


A Woman Too Well Remembered


The Man Who Married Magdalene


Memories of a Lost War


The Heroes


The Battle


The Ash and the Oak


West


Early in the Morning


I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris


A Dream of Governors


To the Western World


Hot Night on Water Street


The Boarder


Orpheus in America


Music in Venice


Cote d'Azur


The Runner


The Bird


The Silent Generation


The Lover's Ghost


The Goodnight


In California


In the Suburbs


The Redwoods


There Is


Summer Morning


Birch


The Morning Light


The Cradle Trap


A Story About Chicken Soup


The Troika


Frogs


My Father in the Night Commanding No


American Poetry


The Inner Part


On the Lawn at the Villa


The Riders Held Back


Wind, Clouds, and the Delicate Curve of the World


Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain


Stumpfoot on 42nd Street


After Midnight


Dvonya


A Son of the Romanovs


Meyer


The Country House


A Night in Odessa


Isidor


Indian Country


The Climate of Paradise


American Dreams


The Photographer


Vandergast and the Girl


On a Disappearance of the Moon


Port Jefferson


A Friend of the Family


The Foggy Lane


Sacred Objects


Trasimeno


The Peat-Bog Man


The Silent Piano


Venus in the Tropics


Dinner at the Sea-View Inn


The Springs at Gadara


The Hour of Feeling


The Mannequins


The Middleaged Man


Baruch


Searching for the Ox


The Street


Big Dream, Little Dream


Before the Poetry Reading


Working Late


Sway


American Classic


The Beaded Pear


The Ice Cube Maker


The Old Graveyard at Hauppauge


Why Do You Write About Russia?


Typhus


The Art of Storytelling


The Pawnshop


Caviar at the Funeral


Chocolates


Armidale


Out of Season


The Mexican Woman


Back in the States


Physical Universe


How to Live on Long Island


Quiet Desperation


The Previous Tenant


The Eleventh Commandment


Periodontics


Ed


Akhmatova's Husband


Reflections in a Spa


In a Time of Peace


The Unwritten Poem


Riverside Drive


Numbers and Dust


Another Boring Story


The People Next Door


White Oxen


Waiting in the Service Station


A Bramble Bush


Sea of Grass


The Choir Master's Evening Party


Suddenly


Al and Beth


There You Are


Viet-Cong


Remembering the Sixties


The Believer


The Dental Assistant


The Walker on Main Street


Stairs


Working Out


The Indian Student


Old Field Stories


August


Her Weekend in the Country


Patsy


Honeymoon


An Academic Story


After a Light Snowfall


Shoo-Fly Pie


Like a Glass of Tea


A Clearing


Index of Titles


Acknowledgments


About the Author


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