The collected poems
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The collected poems
Scribner, c1997
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This volume presents the full range of Reynolds Price's poetic accomplishment over the past thirty-six years. His first three collections are brought together in their entirety; and a masterful new collection, The Unaccountable Worth of the World, is introduced.
In his preface to The Collected Poems, Price credits guides as various as Miss Jane Alston, a public school English teacher in North Carolina, and W. H. Auden, one of his teachers at Oxford University. The sure trajectory of Price's development as a poet is traced from the "inexplicable elation" of his adolescent discovery of Emily Dickinson, to a lengthy immersion in John Milton's "polyphonic language, with its ready access to the eloquence of plain speech," to the four-stress rhythm of the Anglo-Saxons and Coleridge on which his work often continues to depend -- that rhythm being "closely allied to the wary economy and dignity of those kinds of speech that, in my lifetime, have been most concerned for lucid and memorable communication."
Those familiar with Price's earlier work will welcome having in one volume such vivid contributions as "The Annual Heron" (from Vital Provisions), "House Snake" (The Laws of Ice) and "An Afterlife, 1953 -- 1988" (The Use of Fire). All will be introduced for the first time to his latest poems from the journal called "Days and Nights." This notebook was begun in the early 1980s, shortly before Price was diagnosed with a grave illness; and the entries continue in the second of three parts of The Unaccountable Worth of the World, many of them contending with the death of friends -- "the Dying Belt, as my father called it." The whole new collection culminates in the powerful departures of such poems as "Scored by Light" and "The Closing, The Ecstasy."
The Collected Poems reveals, throughout, the accumulated variety of Reynolds Price's years as a poet -- the thematic breadth, formal steadiness, narrative vitality and intense lyricism that have marked his work since 1961. It is a landmark in his creative life and in the span of contemporary American verse.
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CONTENTS
Preface
I. VITAL PROVISIONS
(1982)
ANGEL
ONE
THE DREAM OF A HOUSE
THE DREAM OF LEE
THE DREAM OF FOOD
SEAFARER
QUESTIONS FOR A STUDENT
THE ALCHEMIST
AT THE GULF
LEAVING THE ISLAND
ANNIVERSARY
ATTIS
BETHLEHEM -- CAVE OF THE NATIVITY
JERUSALEM -- CALVARY
PURE BOYS AND GIRLS
NIGHT SPEECH
TEN YEARS, FOUR DAYS
RESCUE
TWO : NINE MYSTERIES
ANNUNCIATION
REPARATION
CHRIST CHILD'S SONG AT THE END OF THE NIGHT
DEAD GIRL
NAKED BOY
SLEEPING WIFE
RESURRECTION
INSTRUCTION
ASCENSION
THREE
PICTURES OF THE DEAD
1. ROBERT FROST, 1951
2. W.H. AUDEN, 1957
3. ROBERT LOWELL, 1968
ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
FOUND, FOR MY BROTHER
TO MY NIECE -- OUR PHOTOGRAPH IN A HAMMOCK
I SAY OF ANY MAN
AURORA
A RAINBOW AND A DAY-OLD CALF
MAN AND FAUN
TOWN CREEK
DIVINE PROPOSITIONS
YOUR ELEMENT
BLACK WATER
MEMORANDA
TOWARD JUNCTION
MEMORANDUM 1
MEMORANDUM 2
MEMORANDUM 3
MEMORANDUM 4
MEMORANDUM 5
THE FIELD
CUMAEAN SONG
FOR LEONTYNE PRICE AFTER Ariadne
THE ANNUAL HERON
II. THE LAWS OF ICE
(1986)
PRAISE
ONE
AMBROSIA
WHAT IS GODLY
GOOD PLACES
1. WARM SPRINGS
2. RINCON 1
3. RINCON 2
4. CHEROKEE
5. LIGHTHOUSE, MOSQUITO INLET
6. HAWK HILL
BEFORE THE FLOOD
1. HER CHOICE
2. HIS DISCOVERY
DROWNED
JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR DAVID
DAVID'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN
PORTA NIGRA
LAST CONVERSATION
REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS
DEAD MAN, DYING GIRL
SLEEPER IN THE VALLEY
A HEAVEN FOR ELIZABETH RODWELL, MY MOTHER
EPITAPHS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
THE LAWS OF ICE
TWO : DAYS AND NIGHTS
PREFACE
1. SALAMANDER
2. FLOOD
3. COOL
4. HMMMM
5. LUNA
6. LETTER MAN
7. RELIC
8. PRAISE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY
9. HECATOMB
10. WARNED
11. A POLAR SIMPLE
12. RIDDLE
13. THE AIM
14. SAME ROAD
15. LATE
16. EELS
17. FOR VIVIEN LEIGH
18. SECRET
19. FOR LEONTYNE PRICE
20. CAUGHT
21. CAW
22. TRANSATLANTIC
23. A LIFE IN DREAMS
24. REST
25. FOR JAMES DEAN
26. THE CLAIM
27. TV
28. NEIGHBORS
29. PEARS
30. VISION
31. THE DREAM OF REFUSAL
32. OCTOBER SUN
33. MOTHER
34. TURN
35. LATE VISIT
THREE
LINES OF LIFE
THREE SECRETS
1. JOSEPH
2. MARY
3. JESUS
ROAD
THREE VISITS
1. DIONYSOS
2. APHRODITE
3. HERMES PSYCHOPOMPOS
YOUR BLOOD
HELIX
I AM TRANSMUTING
A TOMB FOR WILL PRICE
MIDNIGHT HOUSE SNAKE
WATCHMAN. TOWER. MIDNIGHT.
III. THE USE OF FIRE
(1990)
ONE
UNBEATEN PLAY
SOCRATES AND ALCIBIADES
THREE DEAD VOICES
1. DIRECTOR
2. PHOTOGRAPHER
3. TEACHER
HALF OF LIFE
THE EEL
1. 25 JULY 1984
2. 26 JULY 1984
3. 26-30 JULY 1984
SIX CONSOLATIONS
1. AUGUST 1939
2. JULY 1946
3. JULY 1956
4. SEPTEMBER 1961
5. OCTOBER 1976
6. NOVEMBER 1989
INITIATION
MORTAL SEVEN
1. PRIDE AND SLOTH: 1985
2. ENVY AND COVETOUSNESS: 1952
3. ANGER: 1985
4. LUST AND GREED: 1962
WINTER
TWO SONGS FOR JAMES TAYLOR
1. HYMN
2. DAWN (JOHN 21)
DREAM ELEPHANTS
NOON REST, BEST DAY
TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS
PREFACE
1. PRAISE
2. AGAIN
3. REX
4. THE DREAM OF SALT
5. NOCTURNE FOR A WEDDING
6. THE DREAM OF FALLING
7. BEN LONG'S DRAWING OF ME
8. 31 DECEMBER 1985
9. THICKET
10. SAMUEL BARBER
11. STEPHEN SPENDER
12. VALENTINE. HERON.
13. NEAR A MILESTONE
14. PAID
15. GOOD FRIDAY
16. EASTER SUNDAY 1986
17. BACK
18. AT SEA
19. SKY, DARK
20. TWO CAVES, A HOUSE, A GARDEN, A TOMB
1. NAZARETH, MARY'S HOUSE
2. BETHLEHEM, BIRTHPLACE
3. CAPERNAUM, PETER'S HOUSE
4. GETHSEMANE, GARDEN
5. JERUSALEM, JESUS' SEPULCHER
6. MOUNT OF OLIVES, ROCK OF THE ASCENSION
21. A HERON, A DEER -- A SINGLE DAY
22. FIRST GREEN
23. 15 MARCH 1987
24. 16 MARCH 1987
25. SPRING TAKES THE HOMEPLACE
26. THE RESIDENT HERON
27. LIGHTS OUT
28. THE RACK
29. JIM, WITH AIDS
30. TOM, DYING OF AIDS
31. FISHERS
32. YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988
33. JIM DEAD OF AIDS AN HOUR AGO
34. TWO
35. EASTER SUNDAY 1989
36. TOM DEAD
37. DOWN AND BACK
38. THANKS
39. SCANNED
40. THE NET
41. New Music IN CLEVELAND
42. J.H.
43. MOB QUAD, OCTOBER 1955
44. AT HEAVEN'S GATE, MAY 1956
45. BOAR'S HILL, SPRING 1958
46. A HERON, A DEER -- AGAIN
47. SPIRIT FLESH, 1960
48. ANTIPODES, 1969 AND ON
49. FREE FUEL, BYRD STREET, 1948
50. FIRST LOVE, HAYES BARTON, 1948
51. ELEGY, BYRD STREET
52. 1 JANUARY 1990
53. SAFEKEEPING, 1963 AND ON
54. GIANT
55. MAYA
56. 13 FEBRUARY 1984-1990
THREE
JUNCTURE
YOUR EYES
LOST HOMES
1. AN IRON BED IN GRANVILLE COUNTY. A GIRL AGED TWELVE.
2. A SINGLE BED. A BACK STREET IN VENICE. TWO YOUNG MEN.
3. A CLEARED RING IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS. A BOY AGED TWELVE, NOW A MIDDLE-AGED MAN.
SIX MEMORANDA
1. IMPRECATION
2. BED
3. YOUR LIES
4. YOUR DEBT
5. MONDAY, JUNE THE SIXTH
6. FAREWELL WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
WINTER 2
LAST VISIT
AN AFTERLIFE, 1953-1988
IV. THE UNACCOUNTABLE WORTH OF THE WORLD
(1997)
ONE
AN ACTUAL TEMPLE
NEW ROOM
THE DREAM OF THE COURT
FIRST CHRISTMAS
LEGS
THE DREAM OF ME WALKING
MID TERM
ALL WILL BE WHOLE
ENTRY
TO MUSIC
TWO : DAYS AND NIGHTS 3
PREFACE
1. FOR K.W. ON HER BIRTHDAY
2. F.H. AGAIN
3. DURHAM, 4 JUNE 1984 -- FORT WORTH, 4 JUNE 1993
4. HOME FROM THE CLIBURN PIANO COMPETITION
5. TWENTY-ONE YEARS
6. RECUMBENT, SLEEPING
7. INDOORS
8. LUCK
9. A CHIPMUNK GONE AT CHRISTMAS
10. LION DREAM
11. FOR HUBERT DILWORTH DEAD IN HIS SLEEP
12. BACK AT MERTON COLLEGE
13. AFTER THE ANNUAL MRI SCAN, CLEAR
14. LIGHTNING BROWN DISCOVERS HE SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH EMILY DICKINSON
15. AFTER AN AIDS BENEFIT
16. NEAR THE DEATH OF THE SUN
17. ON THE ROAD NORTH
18. THE DYING BELT, DOUGLAS PASCHALL GONE
19. ANNIVERSARY, 9 JANUARY 1995
20. BESIEGED BUT STRONGER
21. MERE FACT
22. THE WHEELED EROS
23. TWO FRIENDS, PARTING
24. BACK, D.V.
25. SAFE HOME
26. ON THE ROAD
27. STEPHEN SPENDER DEAD
28. NAPALM
29. WITH A.T.M., BALTIMORE
30. WITH T.M., BALTIMORE
31. TENTH MRI
32. IN THE FALL
33. NEAR THANKSGIVING
34. TOWARD AN ENDING
35. THE DREAD
36. BIRTHDAY PARTY
37. FORTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
38. THE DAY ITSELF
39. TURTLE DANCE, SAN JUAN PUEBLO
40. A LONG STORM PASSING
41. SNOW
42. A CLASSICAL FRIEND
43. THE ISSUE
44. A VISIT THAT FEELS LIKE THE LAST
45. GONE
46. SCATTERING LIGHTNING IN THE SLAVE CEMETERY
47. EROS TYRANNOS
48. AN UNEXPECTED PARENT
49. SCOURED
50. A READING
51. BRIEF VISIT
52. SMALL ASTONISHMENTS
53. ECLIPSE
54. WANT
55. STUCK IN GEAR
56. QUIET EVENING
57. WHO?
58. MAY DAY
59. AT FEARRINGTON
60. LEFT
61. THE SWAP
62. WESTWARD
63. FROM HERE
64. NOB HILL
THREE
THE DANCING AT CANA
THIS FIELD
ANOTHER MEAL
THE LIST
FROM SO FAR
A HAVEN
THE DREAM OF MOTHER AND MY CANE
THE BUDDHA IN GLORY
SCORED BY LIGHT
THE PROSPECT
THE CLOSING, THE ECSTASY
Acknowledgments
Index of Titles
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