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"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1977
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 101
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Physical Description:1 online resource (86 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • In Touch
  • The Tracks
  • Elegy for a Cousin
  • Writing to You after Sunset
  • The Vanished
  • A Season of Farewell
  • Lepidoptera
  • Settlements
  • The Encyclopedia of the Stones: A Pastoral for Samuel H. Monk
  • The Morning After
  • For Deucalion and Pyrrha
  • The Dead
  • Homing
  • For October
  • Set
  • Elegy for the Left Hand
  • Instructions for a Commando
  • Plowing Under
  • A Coast
  • A Few Things for the End
  • The Lake
  • A Ransom Note
  • An End of Ends
  • Somebody Else
  • Sieges
  • The Crime
  • Elegy for a Deaf Mute
  • Soutliern Railway Embankment, Charlottesville, Va.
  • In the Museum of the River
  • Moving In
  • The Operations
  • Ashes
  • The Condemned
  • Close
  • The Family of Ties
  • Returns
  • Driver Education
  • Elegy for Ninety-Two and Two
  • The Will
  • Nine Thousand Days
  • Elegy for One Who Never Lived
  • A Little Answer
  • Onthe Anniversary of Your Death
  • Going North for the Winter
  • Coda for October in May they sing of October
  • The Abandoned Tracks
  • An Age