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| ISBN-13: | 9781636280424 |
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| Publisher: | Red Hen Press |
| Publication date: | 05/03/2022 |
| Pages: | 406 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Paula Deitz joined The Hudson Review in 1967 and succeeded her husband Frederick Morgan as editor in 1998. She is also a cultural critic who writes about art, architecture and landscape design for newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. In addition to her book titled Of Gardens: Selected Essays, she edited two Hudson Review anthologies, Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review and Poets Translate Poets: A Hudson Review Anthology. She resides in New York.
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The Step
From where you are at any moment you may step off into death.
Is it not a clinching thought?
I do not mean a stoical bravado of making the great decision blade in hand but the awareness, all so simple, that right in the middle of the day you may be called to an adjoining room.
Hideyoshi
After the last battle,
the enemy having been cut to pieces,
he rode a short distance from the field and dismounted.
Sat in his armor on the grass and gave word to his staff that he wished to make a flower-arrangement—
they, however, lacked the equipment.
So he took a bucket, and his horse’s bit
(which he hung by one ring from the bucket-handle)
and rigged them into a flower-holder,
then with his bloody sword cut wild blossoms and grasses and in an hour’s silence composed a subtle and delicate combination . . .
Those whom he had conquered he now must judge.
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan 15
A Book of Change (1972)
Port Caradoc 33
Scotch Mary 34
"Sometimes I hear…" 35
Poem of the Self 36
The World of Purple Light 37
Then 38
The Oppositions 39
Etude 40
The Reprieve 41
The Way 42
Nocturne 43
Song 44
The Vantage 45
Poems of the Two Worlds (1977)
I
In Silence 51
"When it rained and rained …" 52
Poem of the Gold Coin 53
The Past 54
Memories 55
The Door 59
1949 61
The Letter 62
From a Diary 63
Exotica 65
II
From a Forgotten Book 71
Centaurs 72
Bianca 74
Mary 75
Hideyoshi 76
Pirate Poem 77
The Rescue 78
The Exiles 80
Autobiographies 81
III
Two Poems to a Dead Woman 87
Grandfather Poem 89
Enigmas 90
The Closed House 92
Bones 93
Maitreya 94
IV
Poems of the Two Worlds 97
V
Saying 107
Blue Hill Poems 108
Whale Poem 114
"Anger at my heart one April morning…" 116
Being, I 118
Being, II 119
"In a five-minute stillness in September…" 120
Music 121
Winter Poem 122
First of May 123
From the Kuan-Tzu 125
The Step 127
Death Mother and Other Poems (1979)
I
Canandaigua 133
Moments 136
As It Was 137
The Touch 138
The Turtle 139
"We took a room at the Westbury…" 141
The Turn 143
February 11, 1977 145
II
Orpheus to Eurydice 149
III
Samson 157
History 158
The Trader 159
In Mexico 163
Abenaki Poem 164
The Promise 165
IV
Death Mother 169
V
The End 177
The Wrong Side 178
The Ghost 179
President Poem 181
"Lucky black man in my dream…" 183
Three Children Looking over the Edge of the World 185
The Summit 186
Refractions & Seven Poems by Mallarme (1981)
Euripides: Choral Passage from Hippolytos 191
Catullus: Carmen v 192
Catullus: Carmen xi 193
Catullus: Carmen xli 194
Catullus: Carmen ci 195
Horace: Liber iv, Carmen vii 196
The Emperor Hadrian: "Animula, vagula, blandula…" 197
Asklepiades: Greek Anthology (v, 158) 198
Asklepiades: Greek Anthology (vii, 217) 199
Dante: "Spesse fiate vegnonmi a la mente…" 200
Anonymous (Spanish, fifteenth century): The Prisoner 201
Leconte De Lisle: In Excelsis 202
Baudelaire: "Je n'aipas oublié, voisine de la ville…" 203
Baudelaire: A Voyage to Cythera 204
Mallarmé: Sigh 207
Maliarmé: Saint 208
Supervielle: In the Forest 209
from Northbook (1982)
I
The Tree 215
Odin 216
Odin's Song 217
Heimdall 218
Freya 219
Njord 220
Aegir 221
Ran 222
Jormungand 223
Thor 224
Frigg 225
Tyr 227
Loki 228
Loki's Song 230
Balder 231
II
The Murder 235
His Last Case 237
Captain Blaze 239
Omen 242
The Skulls 243
III
"I remember the sea when I was six…" 247
Alexander 248
After 249
Metamorphosis 250
Interiorly 251
Exile 252
Castle Rock 253
Encounter 254
The Master 255
"Now that at last I must forego…" 256
IV Seven Dream Poems
Gawain 259
The Demonstration 261
The Adventure 263
The Reflection 264
The Choice 266
From the Terrace 267
The Diagrams 268
V
The River 273
New Poems (1987)
The Christmas Tree 279
Irvington 280
Greenwich 1930s, I 282
Greenwich 1930s, II 284
Mr. Boyd 286
1904 287
Anaktoria 288
The Night Skater 289
The Body 290
Eight Triolets 292
The Gorge 295
Poems for Paula (1995)
Words 301
I Maine
The Hummingbird 305
August 306
Nightwatchers 307
Autumn Moments 308
II New York
The Breathing Space 311
"I love grim autumn days…" 313
"I call it back…" 315
First Snow 316
New Year's Poem 317
The Busses 318
The Depths 319
The Mermaid 320
The Smile 321
Envoi 322
The One Abiding (2003)
I
Washington Square 327
Eleventh Street 331
The Clock 331
1932 333
II
May Night 337
Dolores 338
September 1957 340
The Recreant 341
The Parting 342
III
"I called up Myrtis from the dead…" 345
Actaeon 346
Hypatia 347
In the Private Hospital 349
The Tower 351
IV
The Sign 355
The Burial 358
The Shamrock 359
Recollections of Japan 360
Meditation at Sundown 362
V
The Watcher 367
The Priest 368
Nothing 370
Rain 371
"When I awoke at last…" 372
After Shen Zhou 374
Last Poems
Season of Advent 377
"The scene in the stable…" 379
The Soldier 380
Remember Waco 382
Primer 383
The Voice 385
Chloris 386
Encounter 387
The Thaw 388
Bank Street 389
To Nancy 390
On Madison 391
Barbara 392
"Did you see that blonde we passed back there-" 393
The Garden 394
Song 395
Alison 396
Two Songs 397
Sub Rosa 399
Tomorrow 400
"A small apple orchard…" 401
Perfection 402