Echoes: Poems Left Behind"These posthumously discovered poems radiate the great spirit and wit of a celebrated man of letters. . . . Ciardi's respect for life and death is palpable his voice an eloquent echo." -Publishers Weekly |
Contents
One Easter Not on the Calendar I Woke | 1 |
A Man and a Woman Might at This Moment | 3 |
Done for the Doing | 4 |
Believing Part of Almost All I Say | 5 |
Poetry | 6 |
Success | 7 |
The Fantasy Echo | 8 |
I Was Not Sleeping nor Awake | 9 |
The Aging Lovers | 35 |
Sounds | 36 |
A TrentaSei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats | 37 |
Sitting Bull at the Circus | 39 |
Obit | 40 |
An Overthrow | 41 |
Matins | 43 |
Elegy for a Cove Full of Bones | 44 |
In Species Darling | 11 |
Darling | 12 |
The SomethingNothing Any Love Can Tell | 14 |
A Love Poem | 16 |
Dear Sir | 17 |
Late Peaches | 18 |
Back | 19 |
Echoes | 24 |
The Day of the Peonies | 25 |
For Myra John L and Benn | 26 |
Midnight | 27 |
Psalm | 28 |
God | 32 |
To Be Delivered on Arrival | 33 |
It Is for the Waking Man to Tell His Dreams | 34 |
Thinking about Girls | 46 |
An Old Man Confesses | 48 |
Caught as We Are | 50 |
A Traffic Victim Sends a Sonnet of Confused Thanks to God as the Sovereign Host | 53 |
On Something Like the Temptation of St Anthony | 54 |
A Successful Species | 55 |
Ten Minutes My Captive | 57 |
SeaBirds | 58 |
In the Audience | 59 |
Napping by the Fence | 60 |
Nine Gray Geese | 61 |
This Moving Meaninglessness | 63 |
March 20 1970 | 64 |
December 13 1979 | 65 |
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