Earth Apples by Abbey, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Confessions: 1951–1965

The Whole Fucking Crew November, 1951—Edinburgh December, 1951—Edinburgh December, 1951—Edinburgh II February, 1952—Edinburgh Verse Provoked by a Recent Visit to the Stacks January, 1952—Majorca January, 1952—Majorca II March, 1952—Edinburgh April, 1952—on the North Sea April, 1952—on the North Sea II Brief Speech to a Weather Vane April, 1952—on the North Sea III May, 1952—Norway May, 1952—Norway II Feudalism Terror and Desire The Wild Dove Flash Flood August, 1956—Arches August, 1956—Arches II August, 1959—Albuquerque The Writer Ditty July, 1965—Arches Episodes and Visions A Few Appropriate Lines from Burns A Maxim

Poems and Shards: 1965–1970

Book I: Poems for Judy

Love Letter The Gift Love Poem Song from the City Soaring Song North Rim Idle Music

Book II: Occasions

A Simple-Minded Song of Hatred One Thing at a Time, for Christ’s Sake Manhattan at Twilight, Seen from the Palisades

Book III: Notes & Illuminations from a Burning Book

King Aethelstan to All Heads… Pommes de Terre A Dream Last Rites Peace & Plenty From a Sundown Legend Where Is Your Rock? Due Notice What Zapata Said Inconsolable Memories Essay on Time Long Poem: A Few Words for Some of My Contemporaries For the Old Man On the Birth of My Son

Book IV: Love’s Bawdy

Frivolous Question Two Profane Love Songs I Wish I Don’t Want Them All (I Just Want All the Ones I Want) Mornings in Santa Fe, Dead in Death Valley

Book V: Desert Music

Black Sun Down the River The Dry Season Ambition American Picnic An Evening Star Desert Music A Sonnet for Everett Ruess

Confessions: (1972–1989)

Last Thoughts While Lost Below Lizard Rock Three Limericks For Marcel Proust, et al. For Clarke The Kowboy and His Kow Benedictio

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