Summer snow : new poems

9780062950024
0062950029

First edition

xi, 178 pages ; 24 cm

Poems. Selections

First poem
Nature notes in the morning
Sprezzatura
Stanzas for a Sierra morning
Patches of snow in July
Second person
Three old men
Pablo Neruda: only death
To be accompanied by flute and zither
Abbot's Lagoon: October
Christmas in August
An argument about poetics imagined at Squaw Valley after a night walk under the mountain
Cymbeline
The archaeology of plenty
Poem not an elegy in a season of elegies
The poet at nine
A person should
Smoking in heaven
Dream in the summer of my seventy-third year
First poem
Nature notes in the morning
Sprezzatura
Stanzas for a Sierra morning
Patches of snow in July
Second person
Three old men
Pablo Neruda: only death
To be accompanied by flute and zither
Abbot's Lagoon: October
Christmas in August
An argument about poetics imagined at Squaw Valley after a night walk under the mountain
Cymbeline
The archaeology of plenty
Poem not an elegy in a season of elegies
The poet at nine
A person should
Smoking in heaven
Dream in the summer of my seventy-third year
Los Angeles: an analysis
Okefenokee: a story
For Cecil, after reading Ohio Railroads
Jersey train
Sunglasses billboard in Termini station
Three dreams about buildings
Pertinent divagations toward an ode to Inuit carvers
Three propositions about a subject still to be determined
February notebook: the rains
Summer storm in the Sierra
Hotel room
Large bouquet of summer flowers, or allegory of the imagination
Nature notes 2
Another bouquet of summer flowers, or allegory of mortality
John Muir, a dream, a waterfall, a moutain ash
After Xue Di
Dancing
The Creech notebook
Seoul notebook
Two translations from Anglo-Saxon
What the modernists wrote about: an informal survey
A talk at Sewanee
The four eternities, or the grandfather's tale
Silence
The sixth sheikh's sheep's sick
Montale's notebooks
Small act of homage
Notes on the notion of a boundless poetics

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