The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
by John Ciardi
University of Arkansas Press, 1997
Paper: 978-1-55728-449-5 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-103-2 | Cloth: 978-1-55728-450-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3505.I27A17 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
Paper: 978-1-55728-449-5 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-103-2 | Cloth: 978-1-55728-450-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3505.I27A17 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.52
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
From twenty books of verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
from Mid-Century American Poets (1950): Anthology with eleven Ciardi poems.
from A Genesis (1967): [a portfolio book of 15 previously published poems by John Ciardi and 15 original etchings by Gabor Peterdi]
Foreword
Introduction
from Homeward to America (1940)
The Foolish Wing
Winter Music
To Westward
Night Freight, Michigan
Letter for Those Who Grew Up Together
To a Young American the Day after the Fall of Barcelona
Biography
To One "Investigated" by the Last Senate Committee, or the Next
Reply to S. K.
The Lamb (1984 version)
Oedipus Tyrannus
Boy or Girl see Homeward to America, p. 13
Elaine
Spring Song [I]
Spring Song [II]
from New Poets (1941): Anthology with thirteen Ciardi poems.
Time Is the Late Train into Albany
Spring in Statue Square
Elegy: For You, Father
Elegy for the Face at Your Elbow
from Other Skies (1947)
Ode for School Convocation
On Sending Home My Civilian Clothes
Camptown
Night Piece for My Twenty-seventh Birthday
Poem for a Soldier's Girl
Take-off over Kansas
Goodmorning with Light
Reverie during Briefing
Death of a Bomber
Port of Aerial Embarkation
Sea Burial see Other Skies, p. 39
Saipan
Ritual for Singing Bat
Letter from an Island
Elegy Just in Case see Other Skies, p. 45
Expendability
Elegy [for Kurt Porjescz] see Other Skies, p. 48
Poem for My Twenty-ninth Birthday see Other Skies, p. 50
WafHebutt
Improvisation for a Southern Night
On a Photo of Sgt. Ciardi a Year Later see Other Skies p. 57
Hometown after a War
Serenade in a Drugstore
Chelsea Naval Hospital
On a Photo of Sgt Ciardi a Year Later see Other Skies, p. 61
from Live Another Day (1949)
To Judith Asleep see Live Another Day, p. 65
Morning in the Park see live Another Day, p. 66
Three Eggs Up
Dead Pigeon on South Street
The Pilot in the Jungle see Live Another Day, p. 69
Letter from a Rubber Raft
Homecoming-Massachusetts
To My Students
Vale see Live Another Day, p. 78
A Visit to Aunt Francesca see Live Another Day, p. 80
For My Nephew Going to Bed
In the Year of Many Conversions and the Private Soul see Live Another Day, p. 82
A Christmas Carol
Christmas Eve
New Year's Eve
.22
Survival in Missouri see Live Another Day, p. 88
Letter from a Metaphysical Countryside
Letter to Virginia Johnson
Filippo Argenti
Letter to Dante
A Guide to Poetry
from From Time to Time (1951)
The Figure [line] Drawn in Wire
Monocalzata
The Lamb see From Time to Time, p. 111
The Evil Eye see From Time to Time, p. 113
Fragment of a Bas Relief see From Time to Time, p. 114
Mystic River see From Time to Time, p. 115
A Box Comes Home see From Time to Time, p. 117
Image of Man As a Gardener after Two World Wars
Monday Morning: London
Elegy I
Elegy II
Elegy III, Cavalcante
The Cow see From Time to Time, p.
The Cartographer of Meadows
Annals see From Time to Time, p. 131
High Tension Lines across a Landscape
Shore Piece
The Clock in the Mirror
March Morning see From Time to Time, p. 135
My Father's Watch (1955 version)
Landscapes of My Name see From Time to Time, p. 138
Anatomy Lab
Joe with a Wooden Leg
Heatwave
Elegy for Sam
Childe Horvald to the Dark Tower Came see From Time to Time, p. 144
Memorial Day
Another Comedy
from As If Poems New and Selected (1955)
Men Marry What They Need see As If, p. 151
Sometimes the Foundering Fury see As If, p. 152
The Deaths about You When You Stir in Sleep see As If, p. 153
Elegy [My father was born with a spade in his hand]
Days
Thursday
Three Views of a Mother
Two Egrets see As If, p.
Poem for My Thirty-ninth Birthday
A Thought about Sheik Bedreddin
Elegy for G. B. Shaw
The Invasion of Sleep Walkers
Temptation
Flowering Quince see As if, p. 173
Measurements
Thoughts on Looking into a Thicket see As if, p. 175
On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset behind Me
Lines While Walking Home from a Party on Charles Street
Cezanne
II. [One day I went to look at the Mediterranean]
IV. [You would never believe to watch this man]
VI. [The mountains quiver like a low flame]
VIII. Naples
from I Marry You (1958)
Morning: I Know Perfectly How in a Minute You Will Stretch and Smile see I Marry You, p. 189
The Stills and Rapids of Your Nakedness see I Marry You, p. 190
For My Son John
Ten Years Ago When I Played at Being Brave
Two Poems for Benn
Most Like an Arch This Marriage see I Marry You, p. 196
Letter from an Empty House
The Stone without Edges Has Not Been Mined see I Marry You, p. 198
Letter from a Death Bed
from 39 Poems (1959)
Abundance
A Dream
After Sunday Dinner We Uncles Snooze
Ballad of the Icondic
It Is the Same Place Always Once Again
The One Dull Thing You Did Was to Die, Fletcher
To Dudley Fitts
Bridal Photo, 1906
Palaver's No Prayer
S.P.Q,R. A Letter from Rome
Massive Retaliation
In Place of a Curse
To Lucasta, About That War
The Verbal Generation
The Baboon and the State
The Gift
Captain Nicholas Strong
A Thousandth Poem for Dylan Thomas
Some Figures for Who Must Speak
A Praise of Good Poets in a Bad Age
To W. T. Scott
An Inscription for Richard Eberhart
from In the Stoneworks (1961)
The Sea Shines see In the Stoneworks, p. 243
Back Home in Pompeii
A Memory of the Sad Chair
Epitaph
Song for an Allegorical Play
The Tree
The Little One
Dialogue
Bedlam Revisited
Aunt Mary
A Dialogue in the Shade
It Took Four Flowerboats to Convoy My Father's Black
A Plea
Launcelot in Hell
Divorced, Husband Demolishes House
Damn Her
A Rhetoric for Danny Keough to Recite at the Bar
Watching a Kettle Boil
On Meeting Miss B
An Island Galaxy see In the Stoneworks, p. 268
Dogmatism
Goodnight
At Cocktails
Faces
Everywhere That Universe see In the Stoneworks, p. 273
Joshua on Eighth Avenue
Dragons
The Bird in Whatever Name
Peaks
from In Fact (1962)
Come Morning (1984 version)
On Being Sure and of What
My Tribe
A Fable of Survival
Orders
4:00 A.M. on the Terrace
Miss Olivia Branton
In Pity As We Kiss and Lie see In Fact, p. 290
Vodka
Returning Home see In Fact, p. 292
Dawn of the Space Age
Bird Watching
Every time You Are Sleeping and I see In Fact, p. 295
In Paul's Room
As I Would Wish You Birds
When I Am Not Dead
Counting on Flowers
The Tragedy-Maker
One Jay at a Time
I'm No Good for You
English A
Down Narrow Stairs from a Thin Eye
Suburban Homecoming
In Some Doubt but Willingly
from Person to Person (1964)
Yet Not to Listen to That Sung Nothing
Gulls Land and Cease to Be
At First Flower of the Easy Day
Bees and Morning Glories
Tree Trimming
Evensong
Birds, Like Thoughts see Person to Person, p. 318
Aquarium see Person to Person, p. 319
OldMan
When a Man Dies
Two Hours
An Aspect of the Air
The Poet's Words
My Father Died Imperfect As a Man
An Afternoon in the Park
I Remember the House That Was
Instances
Reality and Willie Yeats
Tenzone
Autobiography of a Comedian
Elegy
Coq au Yin
Possibilities
"Nothing Is Really Hard but to Be Real-"
Styles
What Was Her Name?
The Starry Heavens, the Moral Law
The Colossus in Quicksand
from This Strangest Everything (1966)
Talking Myself to Sleep at One More Hilton
Back through the Looking Glass to This Side
Daemons
Was a Man
Epithalamium at St. Michael's Cemetery
Boy (1984 version)
Incident
The Catalpa see This Strangest Everything, p. 362
Small Elegy see This Strangest Everything, p. 363
Fragment (1984 version)
Why Don't You Write for Me?
Galileo and the Laws
Advertisement for a Reader
Some Sort of Game
Tommy's Pond see This Strangest Everything, p. 370
The Formalities
A Magus
On the Poet As a Damned Poor Thing
L'Inglese
Sermon Notes
An Evening of the Private Eye
On Evolution
from An Alphabestiary (1967)
B is for BOMBERS
G ... is for the GNU
I is naturally enough, any author.
J is splendidly, for JOHN
M is for MOTHERS
O is for OX
R is for RAT
T the TURTLE, has been a long time coming
from Lives of X (1971)
The Shaft
A Knothole in Spent Time
Feasts
The Benefits of an Education
from The Little That Is All (1974)
Minus One
A Conversation with Leonardo
Ugliness
A Man Came Tuesday
Washing Your Feet
One Wet Iota
Small
East Sixty-seventh Street
An Apology for Not Invoking the Muse
On the Orthodoxy and Creed of My Power Mower
To a Lovely Lady Gone to Theory
Exit Line
In the Hole
Keeping
Blue Movie
Differences
Letter from a Pander
Notes
Driving across the American Desert and Thinking of the Sahara
Requisitioning
Dialogue with Outer Space
A Prayer to the Mountain
A Poem for Benn's Graduation from High School
An Emeritus Addresses the School
Generation Gap
Encounter
Memo: Preliminary Draft of a Prayer to God the Father
from For Instance (1979)
Bicentennial
For Instance
Alec
Two for Gertrude Kasle
The Sorrow of Obedience
On Passion As a Literary Tradition
Suburban
Birthday
Between
Being Called
On the Patio
Knowing Bitches
Craft
11:02 A.M. The Bird Disappeared
Bashing the Babies
Censorship
Three A.M. and Then Five see For Instance, p. 494
Trying to Feel Something
No White Bird Sings
The Lung Fish
An Apartment with a View
Roman Diary: 1951
Firsts
Stations
For Miller Williams
For Myra out of the Album
Donne ch'avete intelletto d'amore
Saturday, March 6
A Crate of Sterling Loving Cups
from The Birds of Pompeii (1985)
Happiness
The Glory
Memoir of a One-Armed Harp Teacher
Quirks
Two Dry Poems
Poetry
Going to the Dogs
Barmecide Feast
Elegy for a Sweet Sharpy
An Interruption
Socializing with a Creature
An Apology for a Lost Classicism
At Least with Good Whiskey
A Damnation of Doves
Apprehendee Then Exited Vee-hide
Mutterings
The Limits of Friendship
Friends
Audit at Key West
At O'Hare
January I, 1973
Starlet
January 2, 1978
Obsolescence
Credo
Useless Knowledge
Finally That Blue Receding Sphere
from Poems of Love and Marriage (1988): Posthumously published
Morning
I Was Not Sleeping nor Awake see Poems of Love and Marriage, p. 550
Darling see Poems of Love and Marriage, p. 551
The Aging Lovers see Poems of Love and Marriage, p. 552
A Love Poem see Poems of Love and Marriage, p. 553
from Echoes (1989): Posthumously published
One Easter Not on the Calendar I Woke
Done for the Doing
Love Sonnet: Believing Part of Almost All I Say
Freshman Sonnet: Success
Dear Sir
Back
For Myra,john L., and Benn
Midnight
It Is for the Waking Man to Tell His Dreams
This Moving Meaninglessness
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
Obit
An Overthrow
God
Matins
Elegy for a Cave Full of Bones
A Traffic Victim Sends a Sonnet of Confused Thanks to God As the Sovereign Host
Thinking about Girls
An Old Man Confesses see Echoes, p. 578
A Successful Species
Sea-Birds
In the Audience
December 13, 1979
from Stations of the Air (1993): Posthumously published
And Thy Mother
Storm
Food Notes
This Morning
Christmas Alone in Key West
An Elegy for Moral Self-Assurance and Country Virtue
A Sleep (by Rousseau)
Call It a Day
Lines for Myra to Grow To
Carving the Turkey
Mr. & Mrs.
A Gray Spring Morning
Last Rites
Title Index
First Line Index
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.
It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled.
See other books on: American | Ciardi, John | Collected Poems | John Ciardi | Poetry
See other titles from University of Arkansas Press
Nearby on shelf for American literature / Individual authors / 1900-1960:
|
9781558498419
9780816617012
