Title: New and selected poems, 1956-1996 /
Authors: Appleman, Philip, 1926-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry
Abstract: With an astonishing command of nature imagery, from sparrows to mastodons, Philip Appleman can deftly weave into a single poem an intricate pattern of ideas drawn from evolution, humanism, anthropology, religious skepticism, and everyday experience. Appealing to reason as well as to emotion and imagination, he writes poems of lyrical intensity and remarkable narrative depth. He creates characters - Eve or Darwin or a failed priest - with such wit, compassion, and subtle.
Contents: To the River (Benares) -- On the Via Veneto (Rome) -- Snow on the Bosporus (Istanbul) -- Dolphins (Manzanillo) -- Crystal Anniversary -- Vigil -- A Promise -- The Knight's Tale -- Kites on a Windy Day -- Remembering the Great Depression -- Things to Do with Railroads -- Success Story -- Day of the Hawk -- To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year -- Four Measures: Earth, Air, Water, Fire -- A Poem for St. Valentine's Day -- Middle of the Night -- Summer Love and Surf -- At the Nativity Bar and Poolroom (Bethlehem) -- The Path of Renunciation (Calcutta) -- Thinking of Noubli Laroussi (Algeria) -- Three Haiku, Two Tanka (Kyoto) -- A Word to Socrates -- A Thought for Suse Pollok -- Last Lines for a Baritone -- Sweet Life -- You Said, That's the Fourth Bird This Year to Hit Our Picture Window -- Butterwort -- Old Thing -- Town and Gown -- Enemy -- Memo to the 21st Century -- Nobody Dies in the Spring -- Land of Cold Sun --^