The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

by ROETHKE, THEODORE

ISBN13: 9780385086011

ISBN10: 0385086016

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Pub. Date: 1974-12-10

Publisher(s): Anchor

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Summary

With the publication of Open House in 1941, Theodore Roethke began a career which established him as one of the most respected American poets. His subsequent volumes included The Waking, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, Words for the Wind, recipient of a National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of Yale University, and the posthumously published The Far Field, which won a National Book Award in 1965. Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published books as well as sixteen previously uncollected poems. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source in American poetry. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Born in 1908 in Saginaw, MI, Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. He died in 1963 at the age of 55.

Open House 1941

Open House	p. 3
Feud	p. 4
Death Piece	p. 4
Prognosis	p. 5
To My Sister	p. 5
The Premonition	p. 6
Interlude	p. 6
Orders for the Day	p. 7
Prayer	p. 8
The Signals	p. 8
The Adamant	p. 9

The Light Comes Brighter	p. 10
Slow Season	p. 11
Mid-Country Blow	p. 11
In Praise of Prairie	p. 12
The Coming of the Cold	p. 13
"The late peach yields a subtle musk"	p. 13
"The ribs of leaves lie in the dust"	p. 13
"The small brook dies within its bed"	p. 14

The Lost Son	p. 50
The Flight	p. 50
The Pit	p. 52
The Gibber	p. 52
The Return	p. 54
"It was beginning winter"	p. 55
The Long Alley	p. 56
A Field of Light	p. 59
The Shape of the Fire	p. 61
from Praise to the End! 1951

Where Knock Is Open Wide	p. 67
I Need, I Need	p. 70
Bring the Day!	p. 73
Give Way, Ye Gates	p. 75
Sensibility! O La!	p. 75
O Lull Me, Lull Me	p. 79

Praise to the End!	p. 81
Unfold! Unfold!	p. 85
I Cry, Love! Love!	p. 88
from The Waking 1953
O, Thou Opening, O	p. 93
The Visitant	p. 96
A Light Breather	p. 97
Elegy for Jane	p. 98
Old Lady's Winter Words	p. 99
Four for Sir John Davies	p. 101
The Dance	p. 101
The Partner	p. 101
The Wraith	p. 102
The Vigil	p. 103
The Waking	p. 104
from Words for the Wind 1958
Lighter Pieces and Poems for Children
Song for the Squeeze-Box	p. 107
Reply to a Lady Editor	p. 109
Dinky	p. 110
The Cow	p. 110
The Serpent	p. 111
The Sloth	p. 112
The Lady and the Bear	p. 113
Love Poems
The Dream	p. 114
All the Earth, All the Air	p. 116
Words for the Wind	p. 118
I Knew a Woman	p. 122
The Voice	p. 123
She	p. 124
The Other	p. 125
The Sententious Man	p. 126
The Pure Fury	p. 128
The Renewal	p. 130
The Sensualists	p. 131
Love's Progress	p. 132
The Surly One	p. 133
Plaint	p. 134
The Swan	p. 135
Memory	p. 136
Voices and Creatures
"The Shimmer of Evil"	p. 137
Elegy	p. 138
The Beast	p. 139
The Song	p. 140
The Exorcism	p. 141
The Small	p. 142
A Walk in Late Summer	p. 143
Snake	p. 144
Slug	p. 145
The Siskins	p. 146
The Dying Man
The Dying Man	p. 147
His Words	p. 147
What Now?	p. 148
The Wall	p. 148
The Exulting	p. 149
They Sing, They Sing	p. 150
Meditations of an Old Woman
First Meditation	p. 151
I'm Here	p. 155
Her Becoming	p. 159
Fourth Meditation	p. 162
What Can I Tell My Bones?	p. 165
from I Am! Says the Lamb 1961
Nonsense Poems
The Kitty-Cat Bird	p. 171
The Whale	p. 172
The Yak	p. 172
The Donkey	p. 172
The Ceiling	p. 172
The Chair	p. 172
Myrtle	p. 173
Myrtle's Cousin	p. 173
Goo-Girl	p. 174
The Gnu	p. 174
The Monotony Song	p. 175
Philander	p. 176
The Hippo	p. 176
The Boy and the Bush	p. 176
The Lamb	p. 176
The Lizard	p. 177
The Wagtail	p. 177
The Far Field 1964
North American Sequence
The Longing	p. 181
Meditation at Oyster River	p. 184
Journey to the Interior	p. 187
The Long Waters	p. 190
The Far Field	p. 193
The Rose	p. 196
Love Poems
The Young Girl	p. 200
Her Words	p. 201
The Apparition	p. 201
Her Reticence	p. 202
Her Longing	p. 202
Her Time	p. 203
Song	p. 204
Light Listened	p. 205
The Happy Three	p. 206
His Foreboding	p. 208
The Shy Man	p. 209
Her Wrath	p. 209
Wish for a Young Wife	p. 210
Mixed Sequence
The Abyss	p. 211
Elegy	p. 215
Otto	p. 216
The Chums	p. 217
The Lizard	p. 218
The Meadow Mouse	p. 219
Heard in a Violent Ward	p. 220
The Geranium	p. 220
On the Quay	p. 221
The Storm (Forio d'Ischia)	p. 222
The Thing	p. 224
The Pike	p. 225
All Morning	p. 226
The Manifestation	p. 227
Song	p. 228
The Tranced	p. 229
The Moment	p. 230
Sequence, Sometimes Metaphysical
In a Dark Time	p. 231
In Evening Air	p. 232
The Sequel	p. 233
The Motion	p. 235
Infirmity	p. 236
The Decision	p. 237
The Marrow	p. 238
I Waited	p. 239
The Tree, the Bird	p. 240
The Restored	p. 241
The Right Thing	p. 242
Once More, the Round	p. 243
Previously Uncollected Poems
Light Poem	p. 247
Meditation in Hydrotherapy	p. 248
Lines upon Leaving a Sanitarium	p. 249
Song	p. 250
The Changeling	p. 252
The Follies of Adam	p. 254
Three Epigrams	p. 256
Pipling	p. 256
The Mistake	p. 256
The Centaur	p. 256
The Harsh Country	p. 257
A Rouse for Stevens	p. 258
The Saginaw Song	p. 259
Gob Music	p. 261
The Reply	p. 263
Duet	p. 264
Supper with Lindsay	p. 265
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