New Selected Poems

New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition, second printing. Octavo in black color illus DJ, black spine, gilt to spine, 292 pages, 24 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle bumping to rear corners, light soiling to fore-edge, exceedingly mild rubbing to top corners, bright pages, tight binding, extremely mild rubbing to DJ corners, faint soiling to DJ and DJ spine, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(-) DJ. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679401652

DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Includes selections from the poet's latest works, Sweet will and A walk with Tom Jefferson. Contents: [1.] From On the Edge (1963): Lights I have seen before; For Fran; My poets; L'homme et la bête; On the edge; The horse -- [2.] From Not This Pig (1968): A new day; Blasting from heaven; To a child trapped in a barbershop; The cemetery at Academy, California; Silent in America; The midget; Heaven; Waking an angel; Animals are passing from our lives; Baby villon -- [3.] From Red Dust (1971): Clouds; Noon; Holding on; Fist; How much can it hurt; The helmet; Red dust; How much earth; A sleepless night; Told -- [4.] Pili's wall (1971): Pili's wall -- [5.] From They Feed They Lion (1972): Renaming the kings; To a fish head found on the beach near Málaga; Salami; Coming home; Detroit grease shop poem; Saturday sweeping; Angel butcher; They feed they lion; The children's crusade; Later still; To P.L., 1916-1937; Breath -- [6.] From 1933 (1974): Zaydee; Grandmother in heaven; Late moon; At the Fillmore; The poem circling Hamtramck, Michigan, all night in search of you; Letters for the dead; Goodbye; Uncle; 1933; Hold me -- [7.] From The Names of the Lost (1976): On the birth of good & evil during the long winter of '28; No one remembers; Bell Isle, 1949; New season; On the corner; Gift for a believer; Wednesday; My son and I; A late answer; On the murder of Lieutenant José del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 12, 1936; Ask the roses; And the trains go on; To my God in his sickness -- [8.] From Ashes (1979): The miracle; Starlight; Nitrate; Making it new; On a drawing by Flavio; Ashes; Lost and found -- [9.] From 7 Years from Somewhere (1979): I could believe; Planting; Francisco, i'll bring you red carnations; Milkweed; Hear me; The last step; The face; Let me begin again; Snow; Words; You can have it; Let me be; 7 years from somewhere -- [10.] From One for the Rose (1981): Having been asked "What is a man?" I answer; The poem of flight; I was born in Lucerne; Roofs; The conductor of nothing; The fox; Genius; To Cipriano, in the wind; Belief; Sources; Rain downriver; The suit; The voice; On my own; One for the rose -- [11.] From Sweet Will (1985): Salts and oils; The white iris; Look; Sweet Will; From a poem with no ending; An ordinary morning; Jewish graveyards, Italy -- [12.] From A Walk with Tom Jefferson (1988): Buying and selling; Making light of it; Winter words; 28; These streets; Dog poem; a theory of prosody; A walk with Tom Jefferson. American poetry -- 20th century.