Poet in New York

Poet in New York

EditorChristopher Maurer
Introduction byChristopher Maurer
Notes byChristopher Maurer
Translated byGreg Simon, Steven F. White
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher SeriesThe Noonday Press
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York
This Edition Published2000
Pages / Font303 pages
ISBN 100-374-52540-4
Barcode (EAN)9 780374 525408
Chaptersa) Introduction by Christopher Maurer b) Notes to the Second Edition I. POEMS OF SOLITUDE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1) After a Walk 2) 1910 (Intermezzo) 3) Fable of Three Friends to be Sung in Rounds 4) Your Childhood in Menton II. THE BLACKS 1) Standards and Paradise of the Blacks 2) The King of Harlem 3) Abandoned Church ((Ballad of the Great War) III. STREETS AND DREAMS 1) Dance of Death 2) Landscape of a Vomiting Multitude (Dusk at Coney Island) 3) Landscape of a Pissing Multitude (Battery Place Nocturne) 4) Murder (Two Early Morning Voices on Riverside Drive) 5) Christmas on the Hudson 6) Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne) 7) Blind Panorama of New York 8) The Birth of Christ 9) Dawn IV. POEMS OF LAKE EDEN MILLS 1) Double Poem of Lake Eden 2) Living Sky V. IN THE FARMER'S CABIN (IN THE NEWBURG COUNTRYSIDE) 1) Little Stanton 2) Cow 3) Little Girl Drowned in the Well (Granada and Newburgh) VI. INTRODUCTION TO DEATH (POEMS OF SOLITUDE IN VERMONT) 1) Death 2) Nocturne of Emptied Space 3) Landscape with Two Graves and an Assyrian Dog 4) Ruin 5) Two Lovers Murdered by a Partridge 6) Moon and Panarama of the Insects (Love Poem) VII. RETURN TO THE CITY 1) New York (Office and Denunciation) 2) Jewish Cemetary 3) Crucifixion VIII. TWO ODES 1) Cry to Rome (From the Tower of the Chrysler Building) 2) Ode to Walt Whitman IX. FLIGHT FROM NEW YORK (TWO WALTZES TOWARD CIVILIZATION) 1) Little Viennese Waltz 2) Waltz in the Branches X. THE POET ARRIVES IN HAVANA 1) Blacks Dancing in Cuban Rhythms c) Lecture: A Poet in New York d) The Poet Writes to his Family from New York and Havana e) Notes on the Poems
NotesThird Edition
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