The Complete Poems of Ben Belitt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belitt, Ben
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 1998.
Series:Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World Ser.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; I. Possessions (1977-1990); Thoreau on Paran Creek; Voyage of the Beagle; March Willows; Sumac; Walker; Annunciation to Joseph; Possessions; This Rock; Brutto Tempo: Bellagio; Esmiss Esmoor; Graffiti; Crossing the Ice: Acapulco; The Bathers: A Triptych; 1. Marat's Assassination; 2. The Swimming Hole; 3. Woman Bathing; Lily Briscoe: A Failed Painting; Displaced Person; II. The Double Witness (1970-1976); Xerox; Kites: Ars Poetica; Swan Lake; The Repellant; Double Poem of the World's Burning; 1. Ah, Sunflower!
  • 2. Glare: Atlacomulco; The Guanajuato Mummies.
  • An Orange in MéridaFrom the Firehouse; 1. From the Firehouse; 2. Cat's Cradle; 3. A Suicide: Paran Creek; 4. The Double-Goer: North Bennington; Solitudes; 1. Fat Tuesday; 2. Boiling the Egg; 3. Journey of Abel Martín; This Scribe, My Hand; Block Island: After The Tempest; 1. Block Island Crossing; 2. Southeast Lighthouse; 3. Soundings; 4. Freshwater Pond; 5. A Choppy Sea; 6. Nighttown: Block Island; III. Nowhere but Light (1964-1969); The Orange Tree; Dog in the Manger; Chipmunks; Late Dandelions; On Quaking Bog; The Barrio: San Antón; 1. The Well-Dwellers; 2. The Corral; 3. Nativity.
  • 4. Salto de San Antón5. Siesta: Mexico/Vermont; The Termites; The Gorge: Cuernavaca; 1. The Gorge; 2. View from the Gorge; 3. The Loco-Bird; 4. Flower Market; 5. ""Gayosso"" Ambulance Service: Emergency; 6. Full Moon: The Gorge; Cutting the Bittersweet; Winter Pond: Lake Paran; Cold; Papermill Graveyard; Veteran's Hospital; 1966: Stonemason's Funeral; Moon Walk; The Orphaning; 1. A Failed Rage; 2. Ash Mound; 3. A Gift of Light; 4. Wedding Dance; 5. A Stone Raised; IV. The Enemy Joy (1955-1963); The Hornet's House; Second Adam; A Salamander Seen; The Cremation: New Mexico; Three Country Songs.
  • 1. Wasp and Window-Screen2. A Stand of Pine; 3. Tying Tomatoes; Andaluz; 1. Court of the Lions: Alhambra; 2. Alhambra Gardens: Kasidah; 3. A Grape Tasted: Málaga; 4. A Painted Fan: Seville; 5. Street Song: Málaga; Battle Piece; 1. After Uccello; 2. Another Part of the Field; 3. Encounter; 4. A Reading of Entrails; 5. Festival of Anger; Lives of Mrs. Gale; 1. Death and the Next of Kin; 2. Death and the Seventh Son; 3. Death Watch; 4. The Beast in the Quarry; The Lightning-Rod Man; 1. Calligrams; 2. A Look at Lightning; 3. Second Lightning; 4. View of Toledo; Memorial Hospital: Outpatient.
  • V. Wilderness Stair (1939-1954)Dance Piece; Departures; 1. Vermont Quarry; 2. Trade Wind: Key West; 3. Tourist and Turtle: Key West; 4. The Sand Painters: New Mexico; 5. Celebrated Jumping Frog: Calaveras County; 6. Ditty: Moby Dick at Nantucket (1942); 7. Cactus Gardens: Oaxaca; 8. Bullring: Plaza Mexico; 9. Near Iguala: Market; 10. Valley of Virginia; 11. Cricket Hill: Vermont; Night Piece; Karamazov; 1. Smerdyakov with a Guitar; 2. Alyosha's Funeral Service; The Habit of Angels; 1. Jacob and His Angel; 2. Lamentation of Job; 3. Another Sorrowing Woman; 4. Goliath Stone.