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Author Gerlach, Lee

Title Selected poems / Lee Gerlach ; afterword by Harry Thomas
Published Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press : Ohio University Press, ©2005

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Contents The shepherd -- Tabor Academy December -- The nightwalker -- Stillness -- In the nightstruck house -- The last novel -- The pilot's walk -- Lake de Noon -- Genesis -- The vacationer -- Early morning in a Sierra meadow -- February noon -- White nights in Mission Hills -- Today I heard the late hermit thrush -- Wakemanship -- On leave : 1943 -- January, 1980 : near Port Meadow -- Sharp's Oxford : #1 Farndon Road -- Molior comes home -- Molior to his first wife -- Talking of Molior -- Hermetic V : "It was there and not there" -- Hermetic VII : "She had heard of the country of the mind" -- Hermetic XI : "Someday they will live here in this house" -- The old poet at full moon -- Legends -- Some years after -- Adam -- After a long illness -- The birds of Egypt -- Kung Li writes to his father -- Psyche -- Walking the shore thinking of Su-Shih -- Wally in the park -- Willowrun -- When I came to Cerillos and Madrid, New Mexico -- Lake Nine -- Sister Theophila at Fond du Lac -- Galisteo, New Mexico -- Later -- An Oxford winter -- Dear Tsvetaeva -- Walking in snow at midnight -- So why? -- Autumn wind -- Yes
Summary 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
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Subject American poetry.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- General.
American literature
American poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005022196
ISBN 9780804040211
0804040214
Other Titles Poems. Selections