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Author Benedikt, Michael, 1935-2007.

Title Time is a toy : the selected poems of Michael Benedikt / Michael Benedikt ; edited by John Gallaher & Laura Boss
Edition First edition
Published Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2013

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Contents Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Benedikt Suitcase -- Of Michael -- Six Passages: Introducing Michael Benedikt -- Preface to Benedikt: A Profile (1977) -- Of Poetry, My Friend -- from Changes: A Chapbook (1961) -- Raising -- Landscape -- The Gift Steeds -- Victoria Falls -- Ironies -- Survivor -- Consolation -- Changes -- from The Body (1968) -- Air -- The European Shoe -- Fraudulent Days -- Procession -- The Eye -- Hiding-Place -- Developments -- Gemini Emblem -- A Beloved Head -- Some Feelings -- Joy -- At Night
ThoughtsAfter a Reading of Mcluhan, Whom I Admired -- The Bathroom Mirror -- Pyromaniac's Lament in Spring -- Old School Ties -- The Guardian Angel -- from Sky (1970) -- The Future -- Clement Attlee -- Money -- The Blockhouse -- The Artillery Portrait -- This Morning I Fooled a Butterfly -- On the Lawn -- Passing Through Troy -- The High -- The Sky -- Four Psalms -- Let Me Out -- The Esthetic Fallacy -- Naming the Baby -- Definitive Things -- Mirror -- For Jane (And Roger) but Certainly not for Henry; or, Barbarella
""To Persuade a Lady""""from Mole Notes (1971)""; ""Social Concerns""; ""The Sandhog's Monologue""; ""Of the Difficulty of Finding a Friend""; ""How a Navy Man Goes Down""; ""The Angels; or, God�s Eyeball""; ""The New Christ""; ""On Painting the Bathroom Window""; ""The Journey Across Your Thigh""; ""Esthetic Nuptials""; ""Physical Love ""; ""Portable War ""; ""Of Holes""; ""A Hope Chest in Reverse ""; ""Christmas on Earth and Other Vacations with Pay""; ""In the Hospital ""; ""Embodiment of Embeddedness""; ""Understanding; Or, a Much Better Place for the Same Price ""
""The Night of the Foot """"from Night Cries (1976)""; ""Explanation of the Dark ""; ""A Gift""; ""The Meat Epitaph""; ""The Taste for All Things Formal""; ""A Face in the Trash""; ""The Melancholy Moralist""; ""The Disappointed Philanthropist""; ""The Adventures of Resentment""; ""Living with Adversity""; ""The Voyage of Self-Discovery""; ""Discouraging Evening""; ""The Pills""; ""The Awards of Water""; ""New Year�s Resolutions""; ""The Search for the Source""; ""from Universe (Unpublished, ca. 1968) & Persephone�s Telephone (Unpublished, ca. 1978)""; ""The Tragic Landscape""
""Picnicking in the Infinite """"Strong Tastes""; ""Poem to be Looked at During a Nauseating War that is Making Everybody Sick""; ""In Praise of Children (I)""; ""Cornelia and Her Friends ""; ""Arnold""; ""Landscape""; ""Persephone�s Telephone (I-III)""; ""The Crematorium of Boredom""; ""Secret Singing""; ""Desire and Its Conduits""; ""Accomplices""; ""from The Badminton at Great Barrington; or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo (1980), & ""Puffton Poems (Poems from Amherst)"" (Unpublished, ca. 1977)""; ""Saturday Night and Sunday Night Blues ""; ""I Tried""; ""Portland Taxis""
Summary Michael Benedikt (1935--2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, as well as James Tate and Russell Edson, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print volumes--along with work from his five unpublished manuscripts, which were nearly destroyed after his death. Finally, this once widely published and influential voice is back in print, and a fuller understanding of the development of American surrealism and the prose poem in the 1960s and 1970s is possible. Also, the more expansive work that he began in 1980, which investigated the line between the lyric and prose narrative, is finally getting the book presentation it deserves. A lifelong New Yorker, Benedikt was at various times an associate editor with Art News and Art International, managing editor of Locus Solus, and poetry editor of the Paris Review. Benedikt also taught at institutions such as Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Vassar, and Boston University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject New Formalism (American poetry)
FICTION -- General.
New Formalism (American poetry)
Form Electronic book
Author Boss, Laura, 1938-
Gallaher, John, 1965-
ISBN 9781629220062
162922006X
9781629220079
1629220078
Other Titles Poems. Selections