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The collected poems of Theodore Roethke
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Anchor Press
Publication Date
1975.
Language
English
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9781439510049
9780385086011
9780385086011
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Table of Contents
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Open House (1941) I Open house --
Feud --
Death piece --
Prognosis --
To my sister --
Premonition --
Interlude --
Orders for the day --
Prayer --
Signals --
Adamant II Light comes brighter --
Slow season --
Mid-country blow --
In praise of prairie --
Coming of the cold 1 Late peach yields a subtle musk 2 ribs of leaves lie in the dust 3 Small brook dies within its bed --
Heron --
Bat III No bird --
Unextinguished --
Long live the weeds --
Genesis --
Epidermal Macabre --
Against disaster --
Reply to censure --
Auction --
Silence --
On the road to Woodlawn IV Academic --
For an amorous lady --
Poetaster --
Vernal senitminet --
Prayer before study --
My dim-wit cousin --
Verse with allusions V Ballad of the Clairvoyant Widow --
Favorite --
Reminder --
Gentle --
Reckoning --
Lull --
Sale --
Highway: Michigan --
Idyll --
Night journey Lost son and other poems (1948) I Cuttings --
Cuttings (later) --
Root cellar --
Forcing house --
Weed puller --
Orchids --
Moss-gathering --
Big wind --
Old florist --
Transplanting --
Child on top of a greenhouse --
Flower dump --
Carnations --
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze II My Papa's waltz --
Pickle belt --
Dolor --
Double feature --
Return --
Last words --
Judge not III Night crow --
River incident --
Minimal --
Cycle --
Waking IV Lost son 1 Flight 2 Pit 3 Gibber 4 Return 5 It was beginning winter --
Long alley --
field of light --
Shape of the fire From Praise to the end (1951) I Where knock is open wide --
I need, I need --
Bring the day --
Give way, ye Gates --
Sensibility! O La! --
O lull me, lull me II Priase to the end! --
Unfold! Unfold! --
I cry, Love Love! From the Waking (1953) O, thou opening, O --
Visitant --
Light breather --
Elegy for Jane --
Old Lady's winter words --
Four for Sir John Davies 1 Dance --
2 Partner --
3 Wraith --
4 Vigil --
Waking From Words for the wind (1958) I Lighter pieces and poems for children --
Song for the squeeze box --
Reply to a Lady Editor --
Dinky --
Cow --
Serpent --
Sloth --
Lady and the bear II Love poems Dream --
all the Earth, all the air --
Words for the wind --
I knew a woman --
Voice --
She --
Other --
Sententious man --
Pure fury --
Renewal --
Sensualists --
Love's progress --
Surly one --
Plaint --
Swan --
Memory III Voices and Creatures Shimmer of evil --
Elegy --
Beast --
Song --
Exorcism --
Small --
Walk in late Summer --
Snake --
Slug --
Siskins --
IV Dying man Dying man --
1 His words 2 What now? 3 Wall 4 Exulting 5 They sing, they sing --
V Meditations of an Old Woman --
First meditation --
I'm here --
Her becoming --
Fourth meditation --
What can I tell my bones? From I am! Says the Lamb (1961) Nonsense poems Ktty-cat bird --
Whale --
Yak --
Donkey --
Ceiling --
Chair --
Myrtle --
Myrtle's cousin --
Goo-girl --
Gnu --
Monotony Song --
Philander --
Hippo --
Boy and the bust --
Lamb --
Lizard --
Wagtail --
Far field (1964) I North American sequence --
Longing --
Meditation at Oyster River --
Journey to the Interior --
Long Waters --
Far field --
Rose --
II Love Poems --
Young girl --
Her words --
Apparition --
Her reticence --
Her longing --
Her time --
Song --
Light listened --
Happy three --
His foreboding --
Shy man --
Her wrath --
Wish for a young wife --
III Mixed sequence --
Abyss --
Elegy --
Otto --
Chums --
Lizard --
Meadow mouse --
Heard in a violent ward --
Geranium --
On the Quay --
Storm (Forio d'Ischia) --
Thing --
Pike --
All morning --
Manifestation --
Song --
Tranced --
Moment --
IV Sequence, sometimes metaphysical --
In a dark time --
In evening air --
Sequel --
Motion --
Infirmity --
Decision --
Marrow --
I waited --
Tree, the bird --
Restored --
Right thing --
Once more, the Round --
Previously uncollected poems --
Light poem --
Meditation in hydrotherapy --
Lines upon leaving a Sanitarium --
Song --
Changeling --
Follies of Adam --
Three Epigrams 1 Pipling 2 Mistake 3 Centaur --
Harsh Country --
Rouse for Stevens --
Saginaw Song --
Gob Music --
Reply --
Duet --
Supper with Lindsay.
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