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Collected Shorter Poems
by John Peck
Northwestern University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-8101-5140-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3566.E247A6 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | EXCERPT | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A selection of poems by a contemporary master
John Peck's poems draw on both modernist and traditional resources, quarrying in the large gaps among contemporary readers of poetry. This definitive collection makes available difficult-to-find works by a remarkable, thoroughly original American poet. Peck's poems continue to attract a discerning, loyal audience of readers up to the challenge of confronting his astonishing range and ambitions. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Peck was born in Pittsburgh in 1941. He taught literature at American and Swiss universities and trained as an analytical psychologist in Zurich. His collection The Broken Blockhouse Wall (Carcanet, 1979) won the Prix de Rome, and his other works include Argura (Sheep Meadow, 1998) and M and Other Poems (TriQuarterly Books, 1996). He lives in Massachusetts.
REVIEWS
"[F]or a small number of readers Peck will always matter tremendously. Be one of them." -- Robert Archambeau, Notre Dame Review
— -"[T]he best poet of my generation . . . as indifferent to academic fashions as he is to those of the poetry market." -- Clive Wilmer
— -"The poems are so...outstandingly beautiful that the desire to 'understand' [places] second to the straightforward need to read on." -- Patrick McGuinness
— -TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface from Shagbark (1972) Viaticum The Watcher Under Virgo Death of a Stallion The Spring Festival on the River section three, The Hobbies Hunger-Trace Involuntary Portrait Lines for Leibniz Cider and Vesalius Colophon for Ch'ing-ming Shang-ho T'u In Front of a Japanese Photoraph Pointing Pear For the Engraver Leaving the Coal Cellar Turn Quiet Vestibule Dark on Dark from The Broken Blockhouse Wall (1978) Letting Up Family Burying Ground Lucien Refinding the Seam Am Abend da es kühle war . . . Bounds Ground Observer Corps Fog Burning Off at Cape May March Elegies To the Allegheny Redemption Migration from the 1970s and 1980s Cussewago Let Us Call This the Hill of Sotatsu A Weaving at the Zollbrücke in Zurich from Poems and Translations of Hĭ-Lö (1991) Preface Poems Four Ancient Poems Ditty for Mayor Fu of Freiburg im Breisgau Forged Heart Blade Tally Stick A Sash for Wu Yün The Death of Yuri Andropov Rhyme Prose Three: Chapter of the Nine Rocks Vega over the rim of the Val Verzasca Clam Shell with Hunting Scene Fifteen stars fence polar fire . . . Sorting Straws And what they do . . . Hazelnut Fantasia for Du Bellay Osip Mandelshtam in the Grisons Wind under Sash, Val Ferret Rhyme Prose Four Seventh Moon Spring Housecleaning Anti-dithyrambics A Gross of Poems Linked in the Mixed Manner from Rhyme Prose Six Hill Country Ballad The Cells at Tun-huang Translations Honan Folksong from Folksong Lix of the Greater Odes Mencius VI.1.viii Single Seal Quodlibets Two and Three Seal Medley Age of Gold Barometic Reading Incorporating Single Graphs Liu Xie, Wenxin diaolong zhu 6.521 Dawn in Shih-Cheng, Lĭ Hö from Twenty-three Poems about Horses, Lĭ Hö Weeping for Ying Yao, Wang Wei Wang Yang-ming The Proem (opening), Parmenides Orphic Fragment Christian Epigram, Palatine Anthology L.59 from Poem on Divine Providence, Orientius What enwombed the marrow, Walahfrid Strabo Travellers to Broceliande Gouty Brigit, Janus Pannonius My Country Weeps: 1636, Andreas Gryphius The Course of Life, Friedrich Hölderlin The Tombs (conclusion), Ugo Foscolo Rawlinson Two-Step (including Gottfried Keller) A Cento from Valais Quatrains, R. M. Rilke Novgorod: Coming of the Saints, Johannes Bobrowski House, Óndra Łysohorsky Century, Ion Barbu The Last Centaur, Ion Barbu Yu-Vu Songs of the Na-Khi from Argura (1993) Sahara Frescoes, Tassili The Capital, 1980 Leaving the Central Station Pilgrims for Bendis Interleaved Lines on Jephthah and His Daughter Fire is one . . . Armin Canzone of Wood, Paper, Water By Mummelsee Six Stanzas in Nine Lines Times Passing the Breakwater Jonathan Hellade Tallies ides of February Roman Elegy Jaruzelski Winter Begin's Autumn, after the Late Massacre, 1982 In Lazio Passacaglias Boat near the Capo Miseno Campagna From an iced basin at the window . . . He who called blood builder . . . Zurich, the Stork Inn June Fugue Cento Bibliogeche Italiane sections, Little Frieze Three Little Odes Turns near Vincigliata Animula Before a Journey Border Kayak Island Evening Concert End of July fantasia on a Theme from Don Giovanni Stanzas from the Bridge Rhapsody for the Gatekeepers Riposte Weather over the Lake 'Siete voi qui, ser Brunetto?' Livy Dearest, Infernal Granite Seventeen Years after the Tet Offensive Report from Mendrisio Station Causerie Riddle of Peace sections, Frieze from the Gardens of Copenhagen Ars Poetica Round Parable with Broken Frame Posthouse White Deer Running Thonon-les-bains, Upper Terrace In a Railway Compartment near Glarus 'Never You, in Those Ships, nor to Those Towers . . .' 'And Fresh Cuttings from Like Things' Kirschdieb from Selva Morale (1995) Towards Naples Sing and sing me again To an Unknown Poet The Well of Saint Regisse Archeus Terrae Raina Lakeside Weaving at Felsenegg Two Leukés The Dream of Arthur Goad of the Last Chapter Saint Thomas, Strasbourg, Late August As steam on forest track . . . Book of Life Fireframe Early Summer Evening, Kanton Zurich Kesa for the Buddhist Priest Myōe Koben, Kanton Zurich Tobelwacht Kesa for Myōe Koben, Tobelwacht from Spring-through-Fall Epistle to Hakuin Wadding the year's leaves . . . Welder I Struck the Name 'Provider', Assessment Eluding Me Conductus Argillus Conductus Lupus Conductus Albinus All Souls Ficino's Rest Vigil of Parmenides From Katschenstrick over Einsiedeln Passage to the Islands For Radovan Lorković Opposed to the drift of things . . . Two Rooms Monologue of the Magdalene Reading Late at Night in January Balcony sections, For Wind Instruments To Artemis Merlin Anti-Rameau For My Daughter In Zion X and Son Reichenau Afternoon Sketch around a Memorial Causerie, Late Advent 1993 Stars over Evil Dwellings VI / 93 Tree of Life Sura of the Dig near Saint Denis Paragraphs for a Mansion Triple Frieze To the Lampbearer Descending to Ninfa He, She, All of Them, Aye from M and Other Poems (1996) Woods Burial Autumn Syllabics on Themes from Horace and the Chinese Masters So the Name of That Place Was Taberah Anasazi, Ancient Enemies Getting at What Happens Wine of the Solitaries Little Fugue Occam's Razor Pledges No Hostages to Fortune Monument Soundless Tune in the Jewel First Things Vestigium Pedis Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine Meditation in the Midst of Action Polybius On Tiny Obsidian Blades from Peary Land, Greenland Romanza Rombeau for Vernon Watkins Trio Threaded on lines from the Parthian Hymns Viaticum For a Small Chorus Ave From the Headland at Cumae Memorandum Relay Octets from the 1990s
Incident near Vicenza Encounter above Stresa Notes EXCERPT
"Parable with Broken Frame" An old architect at a littered worktable sits through morning, eyes fixed on ocean, intent through evening at the study window, motionless though his hand rebuilds years. Down razory defiles to the rockledge landing stands of flittergold awash in wind, and through soft lolling labia of the waves tiny boats coming in, setting out. Priest and corpsedresser begin the climb to his house, their empty craft nibbles at spindrift. a bridegroom and his man steer for the islands, plinky music unrolls with their wake. A last stone has been set in place, final tile, the bride folds her face in streaming hands, a black duo mounts to the door and goes in. All of these I have been, none holds me.
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Collected Shorter Poems
Northwestern University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-8101-5140-6 Library of Congress Classification PS3566.E247A6 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | EXCERPT | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A selection of poems by a contemporary master
John Peck's poems draw on both modernist and traditional resources, quarrying in the large gaps among contemporary readers of poetry. This definitive collection makes available difficult-to-find works by a remarkable, thoroughly original American poet. Peck's poems continue to attract a discerning, loyal audience of readers up to the challenge of confronting his astonishing range and ambitions. See other books on: American | Peck, John | Poetry See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
Nearby on shelf for American literature / Individual authors / 1961-2000:
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