Collected Poems: Salt Modern Poets S. -James, John Poetry Book
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Collected Poems: Salt Modern Poets S.
Author: John JamesPublisher: Salt PublishingCategory: PoetryBook Format: PaperbackJohn 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).
Table Of Contents
Mmm ... Ah Yes (1967) Shades in a Conversation Cool Evening Plane Tree On the Way Home Chi e 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 Tragheit (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 Buchner'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 Amunategui 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 Eugene 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 IdylAbout MR John James
John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and educated by the De La Salle Brothers at Saint Illtyd's College there. He left in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the University of Keele. He was a founder of The Resuscitator in Bristol in 1963 and Arts Council Creative Writing Fellow, University of Sussex, 1978-79. He is Head of Communication Studies at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge.(BK-9781876857400)
| SKU | BK-9781876857400 |
| Barcode # | 9781876857400 |
| Brand | Salt Publishing |
| Artist / Author | John James |
| Shipping Weight | 0.5000kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.150m |
| Shipping Height | 0.020m |
| Shipping Length | 0.220m |
| Assembled Length | 22.200m |
| Assembled Height | 2.310m |
| Assembled Width | 15.340m |
| Type | Paperback |
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