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Flight among the tombs : poems  Cover Image Book Book

Flight among the tombs : poems

Summary:

The poetry of death. In Death of the Oxford Don, he writes: "Acquiring over years the appetite / And feeding habits of a parasite, / I live off the cold corpus of fine print, / Habited with black robes and heart of flint, / The word made flesh for me and me alone. / I gnaw and gnaw the satisfactory bone." With wood engravings by Leonard Baskin.

Contents:

Death sauntering about
Death the hypocrite
Death demure
Peekaboo
All out
Death riding into town
Death the inquisitor
Death the Oxford Don
Death as a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Death the knight
Death the archbishop
Death the society lady
Death the poet
Death the painter
Death the judge
Death the Mexican revolutionary
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  • ISBN: 9780679450955
  • ISBN: 0679450955
  • Physical Description: viii, 76 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).
Formatted Contents Note:
Death sauntering about
Death the hypocrite
Death demure
Peekaboo
All out
Death riding into town
Death the inquisitor
Death the Oxford Don
Death as a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Death the knight
Death the archbishop
Death the society lady
Death the poet
Death the painter
Death the judge
Death the Mexican revolutionary
Death the punchinello
Death the whore
Death the film director
Death the copperplate printer
Death the scholar
Death the carnival barker
The whirligig of time
A ruminant
Prospects
For James Merrill: an adieu
Sisters
The message
The mysteries of Caesar
To fortuna parvulorum
A pledge
The life of crime
La-bàs: a trance
Matisse: blue interior with two girls, 1947
Proust on skates
A death in winter.
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Subject: Death Poetry

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