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Beschreibung

John James is one of the most highly respected poets of his generation. In this volume all his major works are gathered together from Mmm ... Ah Yes (1967) to Schlegel Eats a Bagel (1996). In addition, a number of hard to obtain poems are also reprinted, including A Former Boiling (1979) and The Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle (1988).

John James is one of the most highly respected poets of his generation. In this volume all his major works are gathered together from Mmm ... Ah Yes (1967) to Schlegel Eats a Bagel (1996). In addition, a number of hard to obtain poems are also reprinted, including A Former Boiling (1979) and The Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle (1988).

Über den Autor
John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prizeand published in the United States by Milkweed Editions. His poems appear in Boston Review, KenyonReview, Gulf Coast, PEN Poetry Series, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is pursuing a PhD inEnglish at the University of California, Berkeley.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Mmm ... Ah Yes (1967)
  • Shades in a Conversation
  • Cool Evening
  • Plane Tree
  • On the Way Home
  • Chi è Questa Che Vien ...
  • 6:00 p.m.
  • While Listening to 'Ah-leu-cha'
  • Hengrove
  • An Open Letter to Jim Workman, Landlord, at the Rose & Crown, Withy Mills, North Somerset
  • What Can You Do With a Bird Like That?
  • Walking on the Downs Near Avon Gorge
  • Flowering Shrub
  • To Allen Ginsberg
  • The Lovers
  • To a Young Art Student in London
  • Danny's Plaque
  • Bathampton Morrismen at the Rose & Crown
  • The Welsh Poems (1967)
  • Exultation
  • Second Exultation
  • Heredity
  • Trägheit (1968)
  • Blues & Reverie
  • Runic
  • A Dream
  • Variations from the Same Cramped Postcard
  • Days Passing
  • Inventory
  • The Small Henderson Room (1969)
  • '... or as we wheel'
  • With Regard the Matter of Falling
  • On Leaving the Footpath
  • Written on Beginning Georg Büchner's Lenz & While Waiting a Return
  • Poem of Inevitable September, or, I'm a City Boy at Heart
  • 'Whatever You've Got, Someone Somewhere Needs it' - W.M.
  • Waiting
  • Coda to the Immediately Preceding Poems
  • Side Window
  • 'There is a very slight relief in'
  • 'Forsythia spatters the faint loops &'
  • A Public Self-address System
  • 'This to be done'
  • Talking in Bed
  • The Postcard Sonata
  • In the Grass
  • Letters from Sarah (1973)
  • Striking the Pavilion of Zero (1975)
  • 'for the snow'
  • Talking in Bed
  • 'pointless ...'
  • 'uuhhh? ...'
  • 'a complete innocence ...'
  • Rough
  • 'the day writhes in an immense crater'
  • 'drawing my chair closer to the speaker'
  • 27 October 1969
  • The Dragon House
  • Good Old Harry
  • The Grace
  • 'the trees are pliant to the wind'
  • 'from the earth quite gratefully transmuted'
  • Going Back to Sleep 2:12 p.m.
  • 'a dangerous wind & temptress to exalted nihilism ...'
  • Proleptic
  • May Day Greetings 1971
  • A Theory of Poetry (1977)
  • War (1978)
  • A Former Boiling (1979)
  • Toasting (1979)
  • Inaugural Address (1979)
  • Berlin Return (1983)
  • Craven Images
  • Variations on 'Today Backwards'
  • Two Sonnets
  • After Satie, a Concert, 13 June 1972, on the Beach, Aldeburgh
  • A Page
  • Karol in Tunisia
  • After Francis Amunatégui
  • Bye Bye Blackbird
  • Song
  • Wearing My Little Blue T-Shirt Again
  • One for Rolf
  • Narrative Graffiti
  • After Christopher Wood
  • Cambridge
  • Chute de Pierres
  • Sister Midnight
  • Shakin All Over
  • Poem for Bruce McLean (1983)
  • Lines for Richard Long (1988)
  • The Ghost of Jimi Hendrix at Stokesay Castle (1988)
  • Local (1990)
  • Dreaming Flesh (1991)
  • For the Safety of Lovers
  • The Conversation
  • From Pass to Pass
  • Song
  • After Rilke: December
  • A Letter to Paul
  • After Picasso
  • Polka
  • Nocturnal
  • On Romsey Rec
  • Eugène Boudin
  • Nijinsky
  • Sleep
  • Stacking
  • Song
  • Kinderlieder (1992)
  • After Thomas Hood
  • Sketches of a Day
  • Song
  • Israel
  • Anglo-Irish Relations
  • Anglo-Irish Relations (Slight Return)
  • Confession
  • That Old Piano
  • The Consciousness Raisers
  • From the Welsh
  • Colonial Medley
  • Gnome
  • Skip
  • Skip
  • Gender
  • The American President Addresses West Berlin
  • January 1983
  • The Sandwich
  • The Bee Code of Hywel Dda
  • Schlegel Eats a Bagel (1996)
  • February
  • Retro
  • Poem
  • Blue Scar Watch
  • Rune
  • Idyl
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 21
Empfohlen (von): 13
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781876857400
ISBN-10: 1876857404
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: James, John
Hersteller: Salt Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: John James
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2002
Gewicht: 0,535 kg
Artikel-ID: 102591993