Title: Is music : selected poems /
Authors: Taggart, John, 1942-; O'Leary, Peter, 1968-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,
Year: 2010
Contents: Listening to John / C.D. Wright -- from ORIGIN, THIRD SERIES. The drum thing -- Lester Young pursued by meteors & other personages of the night -- Position -- from TO CONSTRUCT A CLOCK. Ricercar -- The room -- Eroded rock, 1942 -- from PRISM AND THE PINE TWIG. Good-bye -- from PEACE ON EARTH. Slow song for Mark Rothko -- Giant steps -- Peace on Earth -- from LOOP. Sumac -- Babble babble -- "Beware" -- The lily alone -- Were you -- Nativity -- Never too late -- Against the nurses of experience -- Orange berries dark green leaves -- In true night -- The Rothko Chapel poem -- Monk -- Marvin Gaye suite -- Not quite parallel lines -- Poem beginning with a line by Traherne -- Reflexive -- At arrowhead -- from CROSSES : POEMS 1992-1998. A number of times -- Sainte-Chapelle -- Precious Lord -- In Croce -- from STANDING WAVE. Three words from Thomas Bernhard -- All the steps -- Standing wave -- from PASTORELLES. Thales the Milesian/In a time of drought -- William Bronk -- Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins -- Magdalene poem -- In the kitchen -- Call -- Pastorelle 7 -- Rhythm and blues singer -- The compulsion to repeat -- Pastorelle 8 -- Moonrise -- At the counters ball -- Car museum -- Parmenides/Fragments 3 and 15a -- Pastorelle 14 -- Pastorelle 15 -- Kitaj dancer -- Why trees weep -- Plinth -- from THERE ARE BIRDS. Refrains for Robert Quine -- Odor of quince -- Grey scale/Zukofsky -- Show and tell/Robert Creeley -- NEW WORK. Kitaj angels.