Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) [Paperback]

Alvin Feinman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets | Publication Date: January 1990

"I've known Alvin Feinman's poems for more than thirty years now, and some of them are always in my mind and ear: Preambles, ' Pilgrim Heights, ' This Tree, ' November Sunday Morning, ' Circumferences, ' and several more. Because his poetry has been so sparse, Feinman found only a small audience, but they have been select, skilled, and faithful readers. The best of his poems stand with the most achieved work of his generation, with the best of Ashbery, Merrill, Ammons, Hollander, and only a few others."--Harold BloomThis volume of Alvin Feinman's poems presents a highly praised earlier work, Preambles and Other Poems, combined with more recent poems. Of Preambles Alan Tate wrote, "This is a remarkable first book. . . . there is an acute and subtle sensibility at work. Pilgrim Heights' is one of the best poems by an American that I have seen in many years.' "From "Pilgrim Heights"Something, something, the heart here Misses, something it knows it needs Unable to bless--the wind passes; A swifter shadow sweeps the reeds, The heart a colder contrast brushes.So this fool, face-forward, belly Pressed among the rushes, plays out His pulse to the dune's long slant Down from blue to bluer element, The bold encompassing drink of airAnd namelessness, a length compound Of want and oneness the shore's mumbling Distantly tells--something a wing's Dry pivot stresses, carved Through barrens of stillness and glare:

Editorial Reviews

Review

Annus Mirabilis
At Sunset
Cancellations: 1: Graffiti
Cancellations: 2. Hiatus: Between Waking And Waking
Circumferences
Day, Daylong
Death Of The Poet
Double Poem Of Night And Snow
Earth And Sorrows
The End Of The Private Mind
False Night, Or Another
For The Child Unanswered In Her
Landscape (sicily)
Late Light
Listening: 1. Morning, Arraignment With Image
Listening: 2. The Listening Beasts, The Creatures
Listening: 3. Then Leda
Mythos
Mythos (2)
Nightfall
Noon
November Sunday Morning
Old World Travelogue
Pilgrim Heights
Preambles
Relic
Relic (2)
Relic (3)
Responsibilities And Farewell
Scene Recalled
Second Marriage Song
Snow
Solstice
Stare At The Sea
Statuary: 1. Tags, Or Stations
Statuary: 2. All Of This
Statuary: 3. Portrait
Statuary: 4. Sentinel
Statuary: 5. L'impasse Des Deux Anges
Statuary: 6. Covenant
Stills: From A 30th Summer
Summer, Afternoon
The Sun Goes Blind
Swathes Of March
That Ground
This Face Of Love
This Tree
Three Elementary Prophecies: 1. For Departure
Three Elementary Prophecies: 2. For Passage
Three Elementary Prophecies: 3. For Return
True Night
Visitations, Habitats
Waters
Waters (2)
Wet Pavement
What Speaking Silent Enough?
Earth And Sorrows
Relic
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691014698
• ISBN-13: 978-0691014692
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,814,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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