Collected Poems by Justice, Donald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books By This Author Title Page Dedication Contents Part 1 - The Summer Anniversaries (1960)

Chapter 1 - One

Anniversaries Song To a Ten-Months' Child The Poet at Seven The Snowfall Landscape with Little Figures On the Death of Friends in Childhood The wall A Dream Sestina Sestina on Six Words by Weldon Kees Here in Katmandu The Metamorphosis Southern Gothic Sonnet to My Father Beyond the Hunting Woods Tales from a Family Album

Chapter 2 - Two

Thus Variations on a Theme from James by Their Windows Women in Love Love's Stratagems A Map of Love Speaking of Islands Sonnet About P. Another Song In Bertram's Garden The Stray Dog by the Summerhouse Anthony St. Blues A Winter Ode to the Old Men of hummus Park, Miami, Florida Counting the Mad On a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane To Satan in Heaven

Part 2 - From “Bad Dreams” and Other Early Poems (1948—1962)

Two Sonnets The Return of Alcestis Autobiography Two Songs from Don Juan in Hell The Metamorphoses of a Vampire Monologue in an Attic From Bad Dreams The Furies

Part 3 - Night Light (1967)

Orpheus Opens His Morning Mail Time and the Weather To the Unknown Lady Who Wrote the Letters Found in the Hatbox The Grandfathers Dreams of Water Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy Memory of a Porch But That Is Another Story Heart Girl Sitting Alone at Party Pariy A Local Storm Variations for Two Pianos Anonymous Drawing To Waken a Small Person American Sketches After a Phrase Abandoned by Wallace Stevens Elsewheres Men at Forty Early Poems The Thin Man The Missing Person The Man Closing Up Hands The Evening of the Mind For the Suicides 0/1962 Tourist from Syracuse Bus Stop Incident in a Rose Garden In the Greenroom At a Rehearsal of “Uncle Vanya” Last Days of Prospero Memo from the Desk of X For a Freshman Reader To the Hawks Poem for a Survivor Narcissus at Home

Part 4 - Departures (1973)

Chapter 1 - One

ABC Fragment: To a Mirror A Letter A Dancer's Life Portraits of the Sixties Lethargy Luxury Telephone Number of the Muse Twenty Questions On the Night of the Departure by Bus White Notes The Confession The Success The Assassination

Chapter 2 - Two

1971 Lorcaesques From a Notebook Riddle Things

Chapter 3 - Three

An Elegy Is Preparing Itself Variations on a Text by Vallejo Poem Homage to the Memory of Wallace Stevens Sonatina in Green Sonatina in Yellow Three Odes Absences Presences

Part 5 - From Selected Poems (1979)

Little Elegy First Death Two Blues Unflushed Urinals Sunday Afternoon in Buffalo, Texas Memories of the Depression Years In the Attic Thinking About the Past Childhood

Part 6 - The Sunset Maker (1987)

Lines at the New Year Mule Team and Poster My South American Scenes (1904—1905) Nineteenth-Century Portrait Young Girls Growing Up (1911) Children Walking Home from School Through Good Neighborhood October: A Song Sea Wind: A Song Last Evening: At the Piano Psalm and Lament Memory of My Friend, the Bassoonist, John Lenox In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn Hell Vittanelle at Sundown Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents Cinema and Ballad of the Great Depression Manhattan Dawn (1945) Nostalgia of the Lakefronts Tremayne Mrs. Snow The Pupil The Piano Teachers: A Memoir of the Thirties After-School Practice: A Short Story The Sunset Maker

Part 7 - From New and Selected Poems (1995)

On a Picture by Burchfield The Artist Orpheus Lorca in California A Variation on Baudelaire's “La Servante au grand coeur” Invitation to a Ghost Vague Memory from Childhood The Miami of Other Days On an Anniversary A Man of 1794 Body and Soul On a Woman of Spirit Who Taught Both Piano and Dance Dance Lessons of the Thirties Banjo Dog Variations Pantoum of the Great Depression Sadness

Part 8 - New Poems

Epitaph for a Pair of Old Shoes “Sonya sits at the piano, practicing” The Voice of Col. von Stauffenberg Ascending Through the Smoke and Dull Flames of Purgatory Ralph: A Love Story Couplets Concerning Time At the Young Composers' Concert School Letting Out The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns A Chapter in the Life of Mr. Kehoe, Fisherman “There is a gold light in certain old paintings”

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