Title: Selected poems of Raymond Souster.
Authors: Souster, Raymond, 1921-2012
Publisher: Oberon Press
Year: 1972
Subjects: Canadian poetry
Contents: The forties. The hunter -- Green, wonderful things -- Print of the sandpiper -- Dominion Square -- Night watch -- The fifties. City Hall Street -- Where the blue horses -- The bourgeois child -- My grandmother -- The opener -- Jeannette -- Red fruit -- World traveller at twenty-one -- The new mattress -- Death by streetcar -- The ugliest woman -- Scandal -- One of our young soldiers, drunk, spends his first night in Brussels -- The orange-painted shed -- Welcome to the south -- Our maid of Montreal -- At the funeral parlour -- Central Park South -- The Grey Cup -- The literary life -- The sixties. Like the last patch of snow -- Boys and ducks -- The pouring -- Today at the dawn -- The launching -- The immigrant -- On the way to the store -- I sit down to write -- The extra blanket -- Loyalist burial ground, Saint John -- Homecoming -- Lilac bush in spring -- Decision on King Street -- Thrush -- Easter Sunday -- Abandon of cats -- The roundhouse -- All animals like me -- Ten elephants on Yonge Street -- “Mr. Hill” -- Broken day -- Old farms, Bruce Peninsula -- Church bells, Montreal -- Looking at old photographs -- Armadale Avenue revisited -- At the airport -- On the rouge -- Unadulterated poetry -- The bud -- The worm -- Among the willows -- Bill -- The eye -- Jewels -- Death chant for Mr. Johnson’s America -- God-like -- The intruder -- The underpass -- Pomegranates in studio one -- Late arrivals -- The chimney -- Pitching apples -- Battered -- Pact -- Cicada madness -- Shoe store -- The Dresden special -- Very short poem -- Ducks, five o’clock, late November -- The wild one -- The last batter -- The cage -- The seventies. Queen Anne’s lace -- The spider outside our window -- The end of summer -- Pictures from a long-lost world : 1912 -- Merry-go-round -- Yorkville Avenue -- Ambition -- The gift -- Now that April’s here -- The stacker.