Selected PoemsThis new selection of poems by one of America's most distinguished and original writers recovers work that is immensely contemporary and at the same time reaches back to the roots of his remarkable generation of poets. In highly wrought and passionately felt lines, Weiss explores paradox, history, and love. His distinctive, idiosyncratic poems, noted for their syntactic compression, linguistic playfulness, and characteristic linking of intimate experience and historic incident, are a major accomplishment. This volume is the definitive selection of his work. |
Contents
The Dance Called David | 7 |
FROM | 15 |
The Fire at Alexandria | 26 |
A Trip Through Yucatán | 36 |
1962 | 43 |
The Medium | 85 |
Studying French | 93 |
The Last Day and the First | 99 |
GEORGY IVANOV | 153 |
Pleasure Pleasure | 159 |
FROM | 168 |
Another and Another and | 174 |
A Charm Against the Toothache | 200 |
The Library Revisited | 213 |
Autobiographia Illiteraria | 231 |
A Slow Fuse | 289 |
A Letter from the Pygmies | 121 |
BORIS PASTERNAK | 131 |
SUITE FOR BORIS PASTERNAK | 137 |
A Pair of Shoes | 311 |
The Death of Fathers | 318 |
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