Ohio University Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-8040-1082-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8040-1081-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8040-4021-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3513.E8648A6 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Lee Gerlach’s Selected Poems is a rigorous culling from the life’s work of a remarkable and prolific poet. Written over a period of fifty years, the poetry of Lee Gerlach is a full spectrum of human expression, vision, and experience. It reflects a wisdom and maturity of character that has been constant during the entire span of Gerlach’s writing career. This selection, chosen by the poet, is the retrospective of a true twentieth-century American original.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
A student of Yvor Winters at Standford and himself a legendary teacher, Lee Gerlach is the author of several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Paris Review, Partisan Review, and Poetry. He lives in San Diego.
REVIEWS
“This poetry is of tremendously high concentration and lucidity. Each one of Gerlach’s poems constitutes, as it were, an autonomous, self-contained world, a sort of biosphere or spacecraft, if you will, fully equipped for a long passage through the cosmos.… It is a world indeed that every poet would love to create—I, for one, certainly would—and that every reader would love to inhabit.”—Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Shepherd 000
Tabor Academy December 000
The Nightwalker 000
Stillness 000
In the Nightstruck House 000
The Last Novel 000
The Pilot's Walk 000
Lake de Noon 000
Genesis 000
The Vacationer 000
Early Morning in a Sierra Meadow 000
February Noon 000
White Nights in Mission Hills 000
Today I Heard the Late Hermit Thrush 000
Wakemanship 000
On Leave: 1943 000
January, 1980: Near Port Meadow 000
Sharp's Oxford: #1 Farndon Road 000
Molior Comes Home 000
Molior to His First Wife 000
Talking of Molior 000
Hermetic V: "It was there and not there" 000
Hermetic VII: "She had heard of the country of the mind" 000
Hermetic XI: "Someday they will live here in this house" 000
The Old Poet at Full Moon 000
Legends 000
Some Years After 000
Adam 000
After a Long Illness 000
The Birds of Egypt 000
Kung Li Writes to His Father 000
Psyche 000
Walking the Shore Thinking of Su-Shih 000
Wally in the Park 000
Willowrun 000
When I Came to Cerillos and Mødrid, New Mexico 000
Lake Nine 000
Sister Theophila at Fond Du Lac 000
Galisteo, New Mexico 000
Later 000
An Oxford Winter 000
Dear Tsvetaeva 000
Walking in Snow at Midnight 000
So Why? 000
Autumn Wind 000
Yes, 000
Afterword by Harry Thomas 000
Ohio University Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-8040-1082-5 Cloth: 978-0-8040-1081-8 eISBN: 978-0-8040-4021-1
Lee Gerlach’s Selected Poems is a rigorous culling from the life’s work of a remarkable and prolific poet. Written over a period of fifty years, the poetry of Lee Gerlach is a full spectrum of human expression, vision, and experience. It reflects a wisdom and maturity of character that has been constant during the entire span of Gerlach’s writing career. This selection, chosen by the poet, is the retrospective of a true twentieth-century American original.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
A student of Yvor Winters at Standford and himself a legendary teacher, Lee Gerlach is the author of several collections of poetry. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Paris Review, Partisan Review, and Poetry. He lives in San Diego.
REVIEWS
“This poetry is of tremendously high concentration and lucidity. Each one of Gerlach’s poems constitutes, as it were, an autonomous, self-contained world, a sort of biosphere or spacecraft, if you will, fully equipped for a long passage through the cosmos.… It is a world indeed that every poet would love to create—I, for one, certainly would—and that every reader would love to inhabit.”—Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
The Shepherd 000
Tabor Academy December 000
The Nightwalker 000
Stillness 000
In the Nightstruck House 000
The Last Novel 000
The Pilot's Walk 000
Lake de Noon 000
Genesis 000
The Vacationer 000
Early Morning in a Sierra Meadow 000
February Noon 000
White Nights in Mission Hills 000
Today I Heard the Late Hermit Thrush 000
Wakemanship 000
On Leave: 1943 000
January, 1980: Near Port Meadow 000
Sharp's Oxford: #1 Farndon Road 000
Molior Comes Home 000
Molior to His First Wife 000
Talking of Molior 000
Hermetic V: "It was there and not there" 000
Hermetic VII: "She had heard of the country of the mind" 000
Hermetic XI: "Someday they will live here in this house" 000
The Old Poet at Full Moon 000
Legends 000
Some Years After 000
Adam 000
After a Long Illness 000
The Birds of Egypt 000
Kung Li Writes to His Father 000
Psyche 000
Walking the Shore Thinking of Su-Shih 000
Wally in the Park 000
Willowrun 000
When I Came to Cerillos and Mødrid, New Mexico 000
Lake Nine 000
Sister Theophila at Fond Du Lac 000
Galisteo, New Mexico 000
Later 000
An Oxford Winter 000
Dear Tsvetaeva 000
Walking in Snow at Midnight 000
So Why? 000
Autumn Wind 000
Yes, 000
Afterword by Harry Thomas 000
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC