Title: First poems.
Authors: Goldman, Michael, 1936-
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1965
Subjects: American poetry
Contents: Skill -- House is shrieking with consent -- Resistance to music -- Caverned from the storm -- Nothing -- Here are tigerish flowers, take them -- Stick that tree there! Up to the right height -- Exhaust fans, tugs on the river, trucks -- Involved -- After a great storm one afternoon -- Heat glare -- Crack -- For an older poet -- Change -- Blooming piece of driftwood -- Epithalamion -- There are cells in the earth and they sleep -- Rothko paintings -- Head of state -- Spontaneous man, the gifted assassin -- Looking at a sparrow -- Drowning -- Picnic : to old music -- Opened stream -- First good day -- Feast -- There was flattery in the sea air -- Making a name -- Florence : a blackbird -- Journeys -- Eye : from a museum bench -- For Ned O'Gorman looking at his face in a spoon -- Loop -- After dinner -- Cold spring day -- Heat -- To Rachel, a Fulbright scholar, on her going to Europe -- Departure -- Letter from Italy -- Phone installers -- Garden sonnet -- Lime umbrella -- Bedtime in autumn -- At the park's edge -- Waking -- Memorial -- October views.