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ISBN-13: | 9781784101206 |
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Publisher: | Carcanet Press, Limited |
Publication date: | 11/01/2015 |
Edition description: | None |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Note on the English Edition xvii
Chronology xx
I Three Cantos: London, 1915-1917
Hang it all, there can be but one 'Sordello'! 3
Leave Casella 9
Another's a half-cracked fellow John Heydon 16
'What do I mean by all this clattering rumble?' 21
When you find that feminine contact 23
What's poetry? 24
II Paris, 1920-1922
And So shu stirred in the sea 27
Sudden gift of the stranger 29
Dido choked up with tears for dead Sicheus 31
By the arena, you, Thomas amics, Galla Placidia, and the Roman 32
III Rapallo and Venice, 1928-1937
The new shoots rise by the altar 37
Irritable and unstable 39
'Spent yesterday drawing a grasshopper 42
'From this grotto' 43
Adangle of fishermen's lanthorns 44
SHINES in the mind of heaven GOD 46
Colla coda aguzza 47
Is hurried the great financier, Lawvi or Levi 48
While they were discussing the former possibility 49
Lost sense of partaggio, of sharing, for fellowship 51
In their pageantry and their pride they were 40 53
Das endlich eine wirkliche Verständigung 54
Work is not a commodity. No one can eat it 55
IV Voices of War, 1940-45
1940 59
As against the sound of the olive mill 60
But here in Tigullio 61
As at Aquila with a hundred heads round the fountain 62
Washedin the Kiang & Han river 63
To attract the spirits by the beauty of jade 64
Saying: 0 Kat based upon reason 65
For which the wind is quiet 66
With a white flash of wings over the dawn light 67
The holiness of the lord has a blister 68
So that in August, of the year ex-XXI 69
The cat stars have shut one eye 73
Ub.- 74
Maderno, and there was calm in the stillness 75
360 thousand and sorrow, sorrow like rain 77
So that he put up a saw mill, and they took him 78
M'apparve in quel triedro 79
ERIGENA 80
V Italian Drafts, 1944-1945
Accade ogni mezzo secolo una meraviglia 84
[Every half century a marvel occurs] 85
Ripresero allora i dolci suoni 88
[Then began again the sweet sounds] 89
In un triedro dell'oliveto mi apparve 90
[In a triedro of the olive grove she appeared to me] 91
14 Jan 98
[14 Jan] 99
Dovela salita scende e fa triedro 106
[Where the path descends and makes a triedro] 107
Maicon codardi (codini) sarà l'arte monda 108
[Never with cowards (fogies) will art be mended] 109
Ogni beato porta con sé il cielo 112
[Every blessed soul carries along with it the heavenly sphere] 113
Nel periplo che fa il vostro sole 116
[In the periplum that your sun makes] 117
E i fiocchi giaccion e fondon 118
[And the snowflakes lie and melt] 119
Com'é ch'io sento le vetuste voci 120
[How is it that I hear the ancient voices] 121
Se in febbraio il freddo rilascia la morsa 124
[If in February the cold relaxes its bite] 125
VI Pisa, 1945
A quando? 129
Ed ascoltando al leggier mormorio 134
Yet from my tomb such fame of love arise 136
Night rain and a Biddle sky 137
VII Prosaic Verses, 1945-1960
And my gt/aunt's third husband 145
Ian had felt it: 'blown to pieces?' 146
'Aint no son of a bitch can help me' 148
'One god and Mahomet' stamped by Roger of Sicily 149
John Heydon, the signatures 150
'Daily exercise or more power than any President' 152
The EMPEROR ploughed his furrow and his wife 154
For a word/for the mistranslation of XREIA 155
L'arif est gai, de bonne humeur, souriant 156
Old Peters after '48 that was 159
Novis, nova remedia 161
Till Di Marzio cita 163
Out of Earth into tree 165
And might be lost if I do not record them 167
The madness & cancer are nothing 170
VIII Lines for Olga, 1962-1972
& The grasshopper was not yet dead on his stalk 175
The gondolas dying in their sewers 176
And as to why this timing? 177
Flood & flame 178
Olga's name being courage 179
And there was nothing but water melon 180
Notes 181
Index 218