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Poems, prose, and letters
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Library of America
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[2008]
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English
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North & south. The map --
The imaginary iceberg --
Casabianca --
The colder the air --
Wading at Wellfleet --
Chemin de fer --
The gentleman of Shalott --
Large bad picture --
From the country to the city --
The man-moth --
Love lies sleeping --
A miracle for breakfast --
The weed --
The unbeliever --
The monument --
Paris, 7 a.m. --
Quai d'Orleans --
Sleeping on the ceiling --
Sleeping standing up --
Cirque d'hiver --
Florida --
Jeronimo's house --
Roosters --
Seascape --
Little exercise --
The fish --
Late air --
Cootchie --
Songs for a colored singer --
Anaphora.
A cold spring. A cold spring --
Over 2000 illustrations and a complete concordance --
The bight --
A summer's dream --
Cape Breton --
At the fishhouses --
View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress --
Insomnia --
The prodigal --
Faustina, or rock roses --
Varick Street --
Four poems --
Argument --
Letter to N.Y. --
The mountain --
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore --
Arrival at Santos --
The shampoo.
Questions of travel. Brazil. Arrival at Santos ; Brazil, January 1, 1502 ; Questions of travel ; Squatter's children ; Manuelzinho ; Electrical storm ; Song for the rainy season ; The armadillo ; The riverman ; Twelfth morning; or What you will ; The burglar of Babylon --
Elsewhere. In the village ; Manners ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Filling station ; Sunday, 4 a.m. ; Sandpiper ; From Trollope's journal ; Visits to St. Elizabeths.
from The complete poems. Rainy season; sub-tropics --
The hanging of the mouse --
Some dreams they forgot --
Song --
House guest --
Trouvee --
Going to the bakery --
Under the window : Ouro Preto.
Geography III. In the waiting room --
Crusoe in England --
Night city --
The moose --
12 o'clock news --
Poem --
One art --
The end of March --
Objects & apparitions --
Five flights up.
Late poems. Santarem --
North haven --
Pink dog --
Sonnet.
Uncollected poems. The ballad of the subway train --
Behind Stowe --
To a tree --
Thunder --
Sonnet --
Imber nocturnus --
For C.W.B. --
The wave --
Dead --
A word with you --
The flood --
Hymn to the virgin --
Three sonnets for the eyes --
Three valentines --
The reprimand --
The wit --
Exchanging hats --
A norther--Key West --
Thank-you note.
Unpublished poems and drafts. I introduce Penelope Gwin --
Once on a hill I met a man --
I am neither here nor there --
A lovely finish I have seen --
Britannia rules the waves --
Song--for the clavichord --
Valentine V --
The past --
Luxembourg gardens --
In a room --
Lullaby for the cat --
To be written on the mirror in whitewash --
Sunday at Key West --
Dream --
Florida --
Money --
We hadn't meant to spend so much time --
The street by the cemetery --
The waterfall --
It is marvellous to wake up together --
Florida deserta --
For A.B. --
The salesman's evening --
Edgar Allan Poe & the juke-box --
Key West --
Pleasure seas --
The soldier and the slot-machine --
Full moon, Key West --
The walls went on for years & years --
Don't you call me that word, honey --
Current dreams --
In the golden early morning --
In a cheap hotel --
To the admirable Miss Moore --
The owl's journey --
Verdigris --
For M.B.S., buried in Nova Scotia --
Syllables --
Where are the dolls who loved me so --
A short, slow life --
Suicide of a moderate dictator --
To Manuel Bandeira, with jam and jelly --
St. John's Day --
A baby found in the garbage --
Letter to two friends --
Foreign-domestic --
Keaton --
Brasil, 1959 --
Gypsophilia --
Mimosas in bloom --
Rainy day, Rio --
Apartment in Leme --
For T.C.B. --
For the window-pane --
Dear, my compass --
Close, close all night --
A drunkard --
Lines written in a copy of Fannie Farmer's Boston cooking school cookbook, given to Frank Bidart --
Vague poem (vaguely love poem) --
For grandfather --
Breakfast song --
Salem willows --
Just north of Boston --
Dicky and sister --
Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle.
Translations. from The birds / Aristophanes --
Rainbow ; Patience of an angel ; Banks ; Hell is graduated / Max Jacob --
My last poem ; Brazilian tragedy / Manuel Bandeira --
from The death and life of a Severino / Joao Cabral de Melo Neto --
Cemetery of childhood ; Elegy for Maria Alves / Joaquim Cardozo --
Seven-sided poem ; Don't kill yourself ; Travelling in the family ; The table ; Infancy ; In the middle of the road ; Family portrait / Carlos Drummond de Andrade --
Sonnet of intimacy / Vinicius de Moraes --
Four sambas. Rio de Janeiro ; Kick him out of office! ; Marshal, Illustrious Marshal ; Come, my mulatta --
A banda / Chico Buarque de Hollanda --
Stories. The smallest woman in the world ; A hen ; Marmosets / Clarice Lispector --
The key of water ; Along Galeana Street ; The grove ; January first / Octavio Paz.
Personal essays, reminiscences, and reporting. Roof-tops --
On being alone --
A mouse and mice --
Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939 --
Mercedes Hospital --
Introduction to The diary of Helena Morley --
A new capital, Aldous Huxley, and some Indians --
Primer class --
The country mouse --
A warm and reasonable people --
On the railroad named delight --
The U.S.A. school of writing --
A trip to Vigia --
Wesley Wehr --
Efforts of affection : a memoir of Marianne Moore --
To the botequim & back.
Stories. A flight of fancy --
The thumb --
Then came the poor --
Chimney sweepers --
Seven-days monologue --
Mr. Pope's garden --
The last animal --
Was it in his hand? --
The baptism --
The sea and its shore --
In prison --
The farmer's children --
The housekeeper --
Gwendolyn --
Memories of Uncle Neddy.
Literary statements and reviews. In appreciation of Shelley's poems --
The buck in the snow by Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Time's andromedas --
Gerard Manley Hopkins : notes on timing in his poetry --
Journey to the end of night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine --
Dimensions for a novel --
As we like it : Miss Moore and the delight of imitation --
It all depends --
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks --
XAIPE by E.E. Cummings --
Love from Emily : Emily Dickinson's letters --
What the young man said to the psalmist : Wallace Fowlie --
The manipulation of mirrors : Jules Laforgue --
I was but just awake : Walter de la Mare --
Writing poetry is an unnatural act --
Blurb for Life studies by Robert Lowell --
A sentimental tribute : Marianne Moore --
Some notes on Robert Lowell --
On The man-moth --
Flannery O'Connor : 1925-1964 --
An inadequate tribute : Randall Jarrell --
Introduction to The burglar of Babylon --
Preface to Woodlawn north by Milton Kessler --
Introduction to An anthology of twentieth-century Brazilian poetry --
A brief reminiscence and a brief tribute : Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden --
Laureate's words of acceptance --
Foreword to Elizabeth Bishop : a bibliography --
Statement for the English memorial service for Robert Lowell --
Four blurbs. May Swenson's A cage of spines ; May Swenson's To mix with time ; Frank Bidart's Golden state ; Sandra McPherson's Radiation.
Letters. To Donald E. Stanford, October 29, 1933 --
To Marianne Moore, December 5, 1936 --
To Marianne Moore, January 5, 1937 --
To T.C. Wilson, March 27, 1938 --
To T.C. Wilson, April 13, 1938 --
To Marianne Moore, May 14, 1942 --
To Marianne Moore, September 1, 1943 --
To Marianne Moore, August 29, 1946 --
To Robert Lowell, August 14, 1947 --
To Robert Lowell, June 30, 1948 --
To Robert Lowell, September 8, 1948 --
To Robert Lowell, January 21, 1949 --
To Robert Lowell, December 5, 1950 --
To Robert Lowell, July 11, 1951 --
To Robert Lowell, November 26, 1951 --
To Ilse and Kit Barker, February 7, 1952 --
To Marianne Moore, March 3, 1952 --
To Pearl Kazin, February 10, 1953 --
To Pearl Kazin, November 16, 1953 --
To Marianne Moore, December 8, 1953 --
To Randall Jarrell, December 12, 1953 --
To Pearl Kazin, February 22, 1954 --
To May Swenson, September 6, 1955 --
To Pearl Kazin, May 21, 1956 --
To Randall Jarrell, October 7, 1956 --
To Robert Lowell, January 25, 1957 --
To Robert Lowell, December 14, 1957 --
To Robert Lowell, October 30, 1958 --
To May Swenson, November 10, 1959 --
To Robert Lowell, April 22, 1960 --
To Robert Lowell, May 19, 1960 --
To Anne Stevenson, March 18, 1963 --
To Anne Stevenson, March 20, 1963 --
To Robert Lowell, June 17, 1963 --
To Carlos Drummond de Andrade, June 27, 1963 --
To Anne Stevenson, October 2, 1963 --
To Anne Stevenson, January 8, 1964 --
To Randall Jarrell, February 25, 1965 --
To Randall Jarrell, March 20, 1965 --
To Lota de Macedo Soares, December 19, 1966 --
To Dr. Anny Baumann, January 20, 1967 --
To U.T. and Joseph Summers, September 23, 1967 --
To Robert Lowell, February 27, 1970 --
To Frank Bidart, July 27, 1971 --
To May Swenson, November 7, 1971 --
To Robert Lowell, April 10, 1972 --
To Juju Campbell, July 4, 1972 --
To Robert Boyers, July 9, 1973 --
To James Merrill, April 20, 1974 --
To Lloyd Schwartz, October 21, 1974 --
To Robert Lowell, January 16, 1975 --
To Herbert E. Kaplan, March 26, 1977 --
To John Frederick Nims, October 6, 1979.
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