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  • Prentiss Moore
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The Garden in Winter and Other Poems
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© 2021 University of Texas Press

© 2021 University of Texas Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Constellation 1
  4. Romance on Reading Meng Chiao's "Sadness of the Gorges" 4
  5. On Climbing the Big Pagoda in Changan 5
  6. Map 6
  7. Signature 7
  8. A History of Style 9
  9. A Choice of Color 10
  10. Message to the Pagans 11
  11. Ars Antiqua 12
  12. After Leopardi 13
  13. Danae 14
  14. Swallow Song 15
  15. Baucis and Philemon 16
  16. Poem 17
  17. Ode, Garrance 18
  18. Monet 19
  19. Debussy 21
  20. Monet at Giverny 22
  21. Paris 23
  22. Parisian Rondel 24
  23. From the Forest 25
  24. Photograph by Kertesz 26
  25. Photograph of Bonn at Christmas 27
  26. The Snow Leopard 28
  27. Atget 29
  28. Spinoza 30
  29. Breton Landscape 31
  30. Ma Mère L'Oye 32
  31. China 33
  32. Hasidim 34
  33. Psychopomp 35
  34. Two Poems in Autumn 36
  35. The Sun in Winter 38
  36. Trace 39
  37. The Rock Garden 40
  38. Soon It Will Be 41
  39. An 18th Century Motif 42
  40. Divertimento 43
  41. Huntress 44
  42. She Has Waited 45
  43. How Their Fingertips 46
  44. Good Luck 47
  45. The Minor Risk of the Snail 48
  46. Mother of Eros 49
  47. Wind 50
  48. Music 51
  49. The Garden in Winter 52
  50. November 7 53
  51. The Perfume 54
  52. A Photograph of Zapata 55
  53. Paideuma 56
  54. The Father 57
  55. La Règie du Jeu 58
  56. Sainte 59
  57. Sacred Love 60
  58. Figura 61
  59. Nothing to Terrain 62
  60. Prelude 63
  61. Delicatessen 64
  62. Texas 65
  63. Rime 66
  64. The Moon 67
  65. The Greek 68
  66. Measure 69
  67. What Is This Now 70
  68. Young Master 71
  69. Vermeer's Woman Asleep 72
  70. The Roman Portrait Bust 73
  71. Casanova's Mother 74
  72. Ballad of the Beautiful Ladies 75
  73. The Life in Art 76
  74. Ousia 77
  75. Evening Star 78
  76. Ontology of the Wind 79
  77. Erebus 80
  78. Stoned 81
  79. To Choose 82
  80. From Tacitus 83
  81. Hard Labor 84
  82. Louis Zukofsky 85
  83. Psalm of Africa 86
  84. Alexandrian Idyll 87
  85. The Spring of Bandusia 88
  86. Soracte 89
  87. 1717 90
  88. D'Orfeo 91
  89. The Coachman's Dream 92
  90. To Mallarmé 93
  91. To Baudelaire 94
  92. To Roland Barthes 95
  93. Light of the World 96
  94. Simplicitas Syntactica 97
  95. Tomb Murals of the Han and T'ang 98
  96. On Hearing The Musical Offering 99
  97. Begin Anywhere 101
  98. March 17 102
  99. And Yet I Hardly Notice 103
  100. Poem 104
  101. A Certain World 105
  102. Postscript 106
https://doi.org/10.7560/727212-049

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Constellation 1
  4. Romance on Reading Meng Chiao's "Sadness of the Gorges" 4
  5. On Climbing the Big Pagoda in Changan 5
  6. Map 6
  7. Signature 7
  8. A History of Style 9
  9. A Choice of Color 10
  10. Message to the Pagans 11
  11. Ars Antiqua 12
  12. After Leopardi 13
  13. Danae 14
  14. Swallow Song 15
  15. Baucis and Philemon 16
  16. Poem 17
  17. Ode, Garrance 18
  18. Monet 19
  19. Debussy 21
  20. Monet at Giverny 22
  21. Paris 23
  22. Parisian Rondel 24
  23. From the Forest 25
  24. Photograph by Kertesz 26
  25. Photograph of Bonn at Christmas 27
  26. The Snow Leopard 28
  27. Atget 29
  28. Spinoza 30
  29. Breton Landscape 31
  30. Ma Mère L'Oye 32
  31. China 33
  32. Hasidim 34
  33. Psychopomp 35
  34. Two Poems in Autumn 36
  35. The Sun in Winter 38
  36. Trace 39
  37. The Rock Garden 40
  38. Soon It Will Be 41
  39. An 18th Century Motif 42
  40. Divertimento 43
  41. Huntress 44
  42. She Has Waited 45
  43. How Their Fingertips 46
  44. Good Luck 47
  45. The Minor Risk of the Snail 48
  46. Mother of Eros 49
  47. Wind 50
  48. Music 51
  49. The Garden in Winter 52
  50. November 7 53
  51. The Perfume 54
  52. A Photograph of Zapata 55
  53. Paideuma 56
  54. The Father 57
  55. La Règie du Jeu 58
  56. Sainte 59
  57. Sacred Love 60
  58. Figura 61
  59. Nothing to Terrain 62
  60. Prelude 63
  61. Delicatessen 64
  62. Texas 65
  63. Rime 66
  64. The Moon 67
  65. The Greek 68
  66. Measure 69
  67. What Is This Now 70
  68. Young Master 71
  69. Vermeer's Woman Asleep 72
  70. The Roman Portrait Bust 73
  71. Casanova's Mother 74
  72. Ballad of the Beautiful Ladies 75
  73. The Life in Art 76
  74. Ousia 77
  75. Evening Star 78
  76. Ontology of the Wind 79
  77. Erebus 80
  78. Stoned 81
  79. To Choose 82
  80. From Tacitus 83
  81. Hard Labor 84
  82. Louis Zukofsky 85
  83. Psalm of Africa 86
  84. Alexandrian Idyll 87
  85. The Spring of Bandusia 88
  86. Soracte 89
  87. 1717 90
  88. D'Orfeo 91
  89. The Coachman's Dream 92
  90. To Mallarmé 93
  91. To Baudelaire 94
  92. To Roland Barthes 95
  93. Light of the World 96
  94. Simplicitas Syntactica 97
  95. Tomb Murals of the Han and T'ang 98
  96. On Hearing The Musical Offering 99
  97. Begin Anywhere 101
  98. March 17 102
  99. And Yet I Hardly Notice 103
  100. Poem 104
  101. A Certain World 105
  102. Postscript 106
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