The Collected Poems [Paperback]

The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades,The Collected Poemsopens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety --Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice,andThe Use of Fire-- and adds a new volume,The Unaccountable Worth of the World,eighty-five more recent poems that offer striking departures as they continue to embody Price's close attention to the exterior and the interior worlds of a lengthening and unexpectedly complex life.
The Collected Poemsreveals, 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 from the start. It is a landmark in a creative life that now includes more than thirty books -- poems, novels, plays, essays, translations -- and in the span of contemporary American verse.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

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