University of Illinois Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-252-07239-0 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09274-9 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02999-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3545.A345G66 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and personalities, and poetry for all ages, young and old, amidst a vivid array of memories and explorations. Readers will find homages to the poets that have inspired him, as well as the bountiful lyricism that has made Wagoner's poetry one of our most enduring sources of delight and joy.
Good Morning and Good Night features poems previously published in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The New Republic, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other leading literary journals.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David Wagoner is the author of seventeen books of poems and ten novels, and editor of Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63. He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Eunice Tjetjens Memorial and English-Speaking Union prizes from Poetry, and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, he was the editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 until its last issue in 2002.
REVIEWS
"Wagoner's juxtaposition of natural objects and processes with the human impulse to impose meaning shows both his command of natural imagery and his deep understanding of the rhythms of recurrence and resurgence in human life as it is lived out as part of the physical world."--Pleiades
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1
The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca
Evening Song on Our Street
Visiting the Lady with the Plant
The Cold Doctor
The Message
Curtains
In the Penny Arcade, 1931
The Bean Sprouts
The Toad
Hooverville
Nick
The Three Monkeys
The Magician
My Father Eating Ice Cream
The Guide
Three Sketches in Watercolor
Keep Out, Tresspassers Will Be Jailed After
They Get out of the Hospitle, This Means You!
Home Owner
Tree House
Climbing a Tree
A Skating Lesson
Pressing Leaves
Breakfast
Lunch
Bedtime
2
Introduction to a Poetry Reading
Arranging a Book of Poems
Trying to Make Music
A Date with the Muse
For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
Poetry in Motion
In Praise of the High Viscosity of the English Language
Under All Speech
On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory
Mr. Emerson Tries to Complete an Essay
The Three Trolls of Henrik Ibsen
Pablo Neruda Catches the Rain
3
The Models
How to Meet Strange Women
Rehearsing the Death Scene
For an Old Woman Singing in the House Across the Street
For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern
Bad
Whistling
Bad Chairs
At Lunch with the Psychiatrists
A Report on the Excavation
An Entomologist's Memo to Death
7
Epithalamion
Eating a Toad
4
In a Storm
An Invitation at the Edge of a Desert
Moon Dance
In the Fog
Trying to Help a Stranger
Sleeping Alone
5
Wanted
The Lookout
The Kidnapper
The Detective
The Getaway
6
The Fire-bringers
Sentry
The Secret Agent
Floating
What to Do When Surrounded
In Rubble
Sleeping in a Ditch
7
A Woman Driving a Car Full of Flowers
Have You Any Questions about Your Garden?
At the Edge of a Clear-cut Forest
A Falling Tree
Burnt Offering
The Son of a Carpenter
Big Game
That Hunter
Madman
For a Newborn Muskrat
Snakeskin
After the Eruption
Crossing the Divide
8
Self-portrait Ending with a Found Poem from
Life Histories of North American Birds
In a Landfill
Standing Above the Fault Scarp
Turning Over an Old Leaf
At the Mirror
Instructions for Whistling in the Dark
Trying to Fall Asleep Beside an Iguana
Almost Waking Up in the Middle of the Night
Good Night
The Old Man of the Woods
At the Foot of a Mountain
University of Illinois Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-252-07239-0 eISBN: 978-0-252-09274-9 Cloth: 978-0-252-02999-8
By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and personalities, and poetry for all ages, young and old, amidst a vivid array of memories and explorations. Readers will find homages to the poets that have inspired him, as well as the bountiful lyricism that has made Wagoner's poetry one of our most enduring sources of delight and joy.
Good Morning and Good Night features poems previously published in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The New Republic, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other leading literary journals.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David Wagoner is the author of seventeen books of poems and ten novels, and editor of Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63. He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fels Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Eunice Tjetjens Memorial and English-Speaking Union prizes from Poetry, and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, he was the editor of Poetry Northwest from 1966 until its last issue in 2002.
REVIEWS
"Wagoner's juxtaposition of natural objects and processes with the human impulse to impose meaning shows both his command of natural imagery and his deep understanding of the rhythms of recurrence and resurgence in human life as it is lived out as part of the physical world."--Pleiades
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1
The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca
Evening Song on Our Street
Visiting the Lady with the Plant
The Cold Doctor
The Message
Curtains
In the Penny Arcade, 1931
The Bean Sprouts
The Toad
Hooverville
Nick
The Three Monkeys
The Magician
My Father Eating Ice Cream
The Guide
Three Sketches in Watercolor
Keep Out, Tresspassers Will Be Jailed After
They Get out of the Hospitle, This Means You!
Home Owner
Tree House
Climbing a Tree
A Skating Lesson
Pressing Leaves
Breakfast
Lunch
Bedtime
2
Introduction to a Poetry Reading
Arranging a Book of Poems
Trying to Make Music
A Date with the Muse
For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop
Poetry in Motion
In Praise of the High Viscosity of the English Language
Under All Speech
On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory
Mr. Emerson Tries to Complete an Essay
The Three Trolls of Henrik Ibsen
Pablo Neruda Catches the Rain
3
The Models
How to Meet Strange Women
Rehearsing the Death Scene
For an Old Woman Singing in the House Across the Street
For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern
Bad
Whistling
Bad Chairs
At Lunch with the Psychiatrists
A Report on the Excavation
An Entomologist's Memo to Death
7
Epithalamion
Eating a Toad
4
In a Storm
An Invitation at the Edge of a Desert
Moon Dance
In the Fog
Trying to Help a Stranger
Sleeping Alone
5
Wanted
The Lookout
The Kidnapper
The Detective
The Getaway
6
The Fire-bringers
Sentry
The Secret Agent
Floating
What to Do When Surrounded
In Rubble
Sleeping in a Ditch
7
A Woman Driving a Car Full of Flowers
Have You Any Questions about Your Garden?
At the Edge of a Clear-cut Forest
A Falling Tree
Burnt Offering
The Son of a Carpenter
Big Game
That Hunter
Madman
For a Newborn Muskrat
Snakeskin
After the Eruption
Crossing the Divide
8
Self-portrait Ending with a Found Poem from
Life Histories of North American Birds
In a Landfill
Standing Above the Fault Scarp
Turning Over an Old Leaf
At the Mirror
Instructions for Whistling in the Dark
Trying to Fall Asleep Beside an Iguana
Almost Waking Up in the Middle of the Night
Good Night
The Old Man of the Woods
At the Foot of a Mountain
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC