A Momentary Glory
Subtitle: Last Poems
Contributors: Finkelstein, Norman, 1954-
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series; Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Middletown
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780819574954; 9780819574893
Subjects: FICTION; LITERARY CRITICISM; Poetry; American poetry; General
Work titles: Poems
Description: The passionate testament of a brilliant poet in the face of age, illness, and mortality.
Table of contents: title: Cover; A Momentary Glory; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another; For William Carlos Williams; Reznikoff; Oppen; "It may have been . . ."; "When I asked Wallace Stevens . . ."; The People's Poet; On a Rejection Note from Paul Muldoon; Homage; Lines (1); Now I Write; On My Book; Writing; "I wrote two poems in my sleep . . ."; The Poem; During the Second World War; Memorial Day; An American Life; Discourse on Education; Foggia, Italy; The Old War; Song ; The Transaction; Alexandra; Lydia; Cynthia; King Kong's Wong.; title: Nightpiece"Drear, bleared and boiled . . ."; A Story; Brief Lives; Brooklyn; To the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Lines (2); 7th Avenue irt; Times Square; In the City; Praise For; The Keys; Key West; Florida; Real Estate; Deer; Suburban Note; Rockport; Paris; In Prague; Questions; Green; Mozart Poem; World; In the Beginning ; Dan, Age 10, Explains; Bush Poem; Hot Summer; "A bird in a tree . . ."; Birds; "Like a boy again . . ."; Remembering; Friday; Book Group; "I am in a warm room . . ."; The Distance; Rabbi Nachman's Parable; For Adin; Dejection; The Mother of Invention; Planning; Honestly.; title: "Where was the wisdom . . ."Drums; In Argument; The Old Jew; Lines (3); Departures; 2007; The Office; In the Office; Hospital Poem; Self-Pity; Lines (4); Luxury of Time ; "The piece of myself . . ."; Pardoned; City Poem; Poetics; For Galen; Bright Winter; A Momentary Glory; Psalm ; ABOUT THE EDITOR.