Night Talk and Other Poems / / Richard Pevear.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Pevear, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 100
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (74 p.)

"The first thing I recognize as the beginning of a poem," writes Richard Pevear, "is a distinct rhythm, not only of stress but of movement. Once I hear it, I can find words for it. But the essential thing, finally, is simultaneity-the completion of a shape, a thought, an emotion, a fi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PART I
• To Autumn
• Double Labor
• Energy
• Speech
• Lykaon
• For a Political Prisoner
• The Gardener
• Summer and the Sorgue
• Wild Asters
• Return of the Light
• Summer Storm
• The Beautiful Acceptance
• Mnemosyne
• Motion and Rest
• Little Acmeist Elegy
• Waiting
• Offering
• Les Illuminés
• The City
• Talisman
• Prehistory
• Two Russian Goat Songs
• Epilogue
• Provisional Ode
• In Exile
• Building as Farming
• Auberge de Peyrebeilhe
• Balin le Savage
• A Romanesque Carving
• PART II
• "You lie back . . . "
• "A harvest of our days . . ."
• Still Life
• "Quiet night..."
• For You, from Elsewhere
• "I remember . . . "
• "Not the long winters . . ."
• "Dazed from too much . . ."
• "A domed hive . . . "
• "Midsummer night..."
• In a Country House
• "Almond eyes . . . "
• "Time has been rich . . . "
• "I looked in your eyes . . . "
• You, Here?
• From the Old Welsh
• La Beale Isode
• The Stars Again
• "The change I had foreseen ..."
• December 24, 1976
• The Visit
• Night Talk
• Backmatter