Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems

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Wesleyan University Press, 25.09.1998 - 234 Seiten

A generous gathering of the best poems, both previously published and uncollected, from Rachel Hadas's career.

Rachel Hadas brings an acute perception and a rich education to her exquisitely crafted poetry. As James Merrill wrote, Hadas's "honeyed words and bracing forms . . . over and over bring the mind to its senses." Rooted in the domestic and illuminated by Hadas's lifelong engagement with classics, the poems gathered here, many in traditional forms, draw out the relationships between life, love, time and art. This collection will be welcomed by all who love Hadas's strongly etched lines and passionate intelligence.

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Rag Rug
3
Still Life in Garden
9
Mayday at the Frick
15
Mom and
21
Stress
29
On That Mountain
37
The Poles
44
At The Tempest
51
Three Silences
124
Water and Fire
131
Always Afternoon
137
Taking Sides
143
October
150
The Sleeping Beauty
154
City and Country
162
In the Middle
168

Auguries
59
The Fall of Troy
67
Alien Corn
75
Making Sense of Salt Water
81
Codex Minor
89
Ode on His Sleep
95
How Can I Put You Down?
103
Pass It On I
110
Teaching the Iliad
116
Adde merum vinoque
179
Voyage to Cythera
187
Aurora
194
Chorus from Euripidess Helen
200
Spring
206
The Last Movie
210
Song
224
Urheberrecht

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Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems
Rachel Hadas
Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1998

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Autoren-Profil (1998)

Rachel Hadas is a poet, translator, essayist, critic, and much of her work is influenced by her love of classics. Her books include Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 1998), The Empty Bed (Wesleyan, 1995), and A Son from Sleep (Wesleyan, 1987). She has led creative writing workshops at the Gay Men's Health Alliance in New York for over ten years, and her own poems on the AIDS crisis have been lauded as being among the best elegies of our time. A Professor of English at Rutgers University, Hadas lives in New York City.

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TitelHalfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems
Wesleyan Poetry Series
Autor/inRachel Hadas
VerlagWesleyan University Press, 1998
ISBN0819522511, 9780819522511
Länge234 Seiten
  
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