A Momentary Glory : Last Poems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (119 pages)
- Wesleyan Poetry Series .
- Wesleyan Poetry Series .
Cover -- A Momentary Glory -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another -- For William Carlos Williams -- Reznikoff -- Oppen -- "It may have been . . ." -- "When I asked Wallace Stevens . . ." -- The People's Poet -- On a Rejection Note from Paul Muldoon -- Homage -- Lines (1) -- Now I Write -- On My Book -- Writing -- "I wrote two poems in my sleep . . ." -- The Poem -- During the Second World War -- Memorial Day -- An American Life -- Discourse on Education -- Foggia, Italy -- The Old War -- Song -- The Transaction -- Alexandra -- Lydia -- Cynthia -- King Kong's Wong -- Nightpiece -- "Drear, bleared and boiled . . ." -- A Story -- Brief Lives -- Brooklyn -- To the Brooklyn Academy of Music -- Lines (2) -- 7th Avenue irt -- Times Square -- In the City -- Praise For -- The Keys -- Key West -- Florida -- Real Estate -- Deer -- Suburban Note -- Rockport -- Paris -- In Prague -- Questions -- Green -- Mozart Poem -- World -- In the Beginning -- Dan, Age 10, Explains -- Bush Poem -- Hot Summer -- "A bird in a tree . . ." -- Birds -- "Like a boy again . . ." -- Remembering -- Friday -- Book Group -- "I am in a warm room . . ." -- The Distance -- Rabbi Nachman's Parable -- For Adin -- Dejection -- The Mother of Invention -- Planning -- Honestly -- "Where was the wisdom . . ." -- Drums -- In Argument -- The Old Jew -- Lines (3) -- Departures -- 2007 -- The Office -- In the Office -- Hospital Poem -- Self-Pity -- Lines (4) -- Luxury of Time -- "The piece of myself . . ." -- Pardoned -- City Poem -- Poetics -- For Galen -- Bright Winter -- A Momentary Glory -- Psalm -- ABOUT THE EDITOR.
The passionate testament of a brilliant poet in the face of age, illness, and mortality.
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American poetry -- 20th century. American poetry -- 21st century.