The Collected Poems

The definitive anthology of Reynolds Price's accomplishments in poetry over four decades,The Collected Poemsopens with a preface that discusses his beginnings, guides, and methods; it then includes his first three collections in their entirety --Vital Provisions, The Laws of Ice,andThe Use of Fire-- and adds a new volume,The Unaccountable Worth of the World,eighty-five more recent poems that offer striking departures as they continue to embody Price's close attention to the exterior and the interior worlds of a lengthening and unexpectedly complex life.The Collected Poemsreveals, throughout, the accumulated variety of Reynolds Price's years as a poet -- the thematic breadth, formal steadiness, narrative vitality, and intense lyricism that have marked his work from the start. It is a landmark in a creative life that now includes more than thirty books -- poems, novels, plays, essays, translations -- and in the span of contemporary American verse.

Reynolds Price was born in Macon, North Carolina in 1933. Educated in the public schools of his native state, he earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Duke University. In 1955 he traveled as a Rhodes Scholar to Merton College, Oxford University to study English literature. After three years and a B.Litt. degree, with a thesis on the poetry of John Milton, he returned to Duke where he continues teaching as James B. Duke Professor of English.

With his novel A Long and Happy Life in 1962, he began a career which has produced numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, translations and memoir. A Long and Happy Life won the William Faulkner Award; Kate Vaiden won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction; and his poems have won the Levinson, Blumenthal and Tietjens awards from Poetry.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his books have appeared in sixteen languages.

CONTENTS

Preface

I. VITAL PROVISIONS
(1982)

ANGEL

ONE

THE DREAM OF A HOUSE
THE DREAM OF LEE
THE DREAM OF FOOD
SEAFARER
QUESTIONS FOR A STUDENT
THE ALCHEMIST
AT THE GULF
LEAVING THE ISLAND
ANNIVERSARY
ATTIS
BETHLEHEM -- CAVE OF THE NATIVITY
JERUSALEM -- CALVARY
PURE BOYS AND GIRLS
NIGHT SPEECH
TEN YEARS, FOUR DAYS
RESCUE

TWO: NINE MYSTERIES

ANNUNCIATION
REPARATION
CHRIST CHILD'S SONG AT THE END OF THE NIGHT
DEAD GIRL
NAKED BOY
SLEEPING WIFE
RESURRECTION
INSTRUCTION
ASCENSION

THREE

PICTURES OF THE DEAD

1. ROBERT FROST, 1951

2. W.H. AUDEN, 1957

3. ROBERT LOWELL, 1968

ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO
FOUND, FOR MY BROTHER
TO MY NIECE -- OUR PHOTOGRAPH IN A HAMMOCK
I SAY OF ANY MAN
AURORA
A RAINBOW AND A DAY-OLD CALF
MAN AND FAUN
TOWN CREEK
DIVINE PROPOSITIONS
YOUR ELEMENT
BLACK WATER
MEMORANDA

TOWARD JUNCTION

MEMORANDUM 1

MEMORANDUM 2

MEMORANDUM 3

MEMORANDUM 4

MEMORANDUM 5

THE FIELD

CUMAEAN SONG
FOR LEONTYNE PRICE AFTER Ariadne
THE ANNUAL HERON

II. THE LAWS OF ICE
(1986)

PRAISE

ONE

AMBROSIA
WHAT IS GODLY
GOOD PLACES

1. WARM SPRINGS

2. RINCÓN 1

3. RINCÓN 2

4. CHEROKEE

5. LIGHTHOUSE, MOSQUITO INLET

6. HAWK HILL

BEFORE THE FLOOD

1. HER CHOICE

2. HIS DISCOVERY

DROWNED
JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR DAVID
DAVID'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN
PORTA NIGRA
LAST CONVERSATION
REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS
DEAD MAN, DYING GIRL
SLEEPER IN THE VALLEY
A HEAVEN FOR ELIZABETH RODWELL, MY MOTHER
EPITAPHS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
THE LAWS OF ICE

TWO : DAYS AND NIGHTS

PREFACE

1. SALAMANDER

2. FLOOD

3. COOL

4. HMMMM

5. LUNA

6. LETTER MAN

7. RELIC

8. PRAISE ON YOUR BIRTHDAY

9. HECATOMB

10. WARNED

11. A POLAR SIMPLE

12. RIDDLE

13. THE AIM

14. SAME ROAD

15. LATE

16. EELS

17. FOR VIVIEN LEIGH

18. SECRET

19. FOR LEONTYNE PRICE

20. CAUGHT

21. CAW

22. TRANSATLANTIC

23. A LIFE IN DREAMS

24. REST

25. FOR JAMES DEAN

26. THE CLAIM

27. TV

28. NEIGHBORS

29. PEARS

30. VISION

31. THE DREAM OF REFUSAL

32. OCTOBER SUN

33. MOTHER

34. TURN

35. LATE VISIT

THREE

LINES OF LIFE
THREE SECRETS

1. JOSEPH

2. MARY

3. JESUS

ROAD
THREE VISITS

1. DIONYSOS

2. APHRODITE

3. HERMES PSYCHOPOMPOS

YOUR BLOOD
HELIX
I AM TRANSMUTING
A TOMB FOR WILL PRICE
MIDNIGHT
HOUSE SNAKE
WATCHMAN. TOWER. MIDNIGHT.

III. THE USE OF FIRE
(1990)

ONE

UNBEATEN PLAY
SOCRATES AND ALCIBIADES
THREE DEAD VOICES

1. DIRECTOR

2. PHOTOGRAPHER

3. TEACHER

HALF OF LIFE
THE EEL

1. 25 JULY 1984

2. 26 JULY 1984

3. 26-30 JULY 1984

SIX CONSOLATIONS

1. AUGUST 1939

2. JULY 1946

3. JULY 1956

4. SEPTEMBER 1961

5. OCTOBER 1976

6. NOVEMBER 1989

INITIATION
MORTAL SEVEN

1. PRIDE AND SLOTH: 1985

2. ENVY AND COVETOUSNESS: 1952

3. ANGER: 1985

4. LUST AND GREED: 1962

WINTER
TWO SONGS FOR JAMES TAYLOR

1. HYMN

2. DAWN (JOHN 21)

DREAM ELEPHANTS
NOON REST, BEST DAY

TWO: DAYS AND NIGHTS 2

PREFACE

1. PRAISE

2. AGAIN

3. REX

4. THE DREAM OF SALT

5. NOCTURNE FOR A WEDDING

6. THE DREAM OF FALLING

7. BEN LONG'S DRAWING OF ME

8. 31 DECEMBER 1985

9. THICKET

10. SAMUEL BARBER

11. STEPHEN SPENDER

12. VALENTINE. HERON.

13. NEAR A MILESTONE

14. PAID

15. GOOD FRIDAY

16. EASTER SUNDAY 1986

17. BACK

18. AT SEA

19. SKY, DARK

20. TWO CAVES, A HOUSE, A GARDEN, A TOMB

1. NAZARETH, MARY'S HOUSE
2. BETHLEHEM, BIRTHPLACE
3. CAPERNAUM, PETER'S HOUSE
4. GETHSEMANE, GARDEN
5. JERUSALEM, JESUS' SEPULCHER
6. MOUNT OF OLIVES, ROCK OF THE ASCENSION

21. A HERON, A DEER -- A SINGLE DAY

22. FIRST GREEN

23. 15 MARCH 1987

24. 16 MARCH 1987

25. SPRING TAKES THE HOMEPLACE

26. THE RESIDENT HERON

27. LIGHTS OUT

28. THE RACK

29. JIM, WITH AIDS

30. TOM, DYING OF AIDS

31. FISHERS

32. YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988

33. JIM DEAD OF AIDS AN HOUR AGO

34. TWO

35. EASTER SUNDAY 1989

36. TOM DEAD

37. DOWN AND BACK

38. THANKS

39. SCANNED

40. THE NET

41. New Music IN CLEVELAND

42. J.H.

43. MOB QUAD, OCTOBER 1955

44. AT HEAVEN'S GATE, MAY 1956

45. BOAR'S HILL, SPRING 1958

46. A HERON, A DEER -- AGAIN

47. SPIRIT FLESH, 1960

48. ANTIPODES, 1969 AND ON

49. FREE FUEL, BYRD STREET, 1948

50. FIRST LOVE, HAYES BARTON, 1948

51. ELEGY, BYRD STREET

52. 1 JANUARY 1990

53. SAFEKEEPING, 1963 AND ON

54. GIANT

55. MAYA

56. 13 FEBRUARY 1984-1990

THREE

JUNCTURE
YOUR EYES
LOST HOMES

1. AN IRON BED IN GRANVILLE COUNTY.

A GIRL AGED TWELVE.

2. A SINGLE BED. A BACK STREET IN VENICE.
TWO YOUNG MEN.

3. A CLEARED RING IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS. SIX MEMORANDA

1. IMPRECATION

2. BED

3. YOUR LIES

4. YOUR DEBT

5. MONDAY, JUNE THE SIXTH

6. FAREWELL WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

WINTER 2
LAST VISIT
AN AFTERLIFE, 1953-1988

IV. THE UNACCOUNTABLE WORTH OF THE WORLD
(1997)

ONE

AN ACTUAL TEMPLE
NEW ROOM
THE DREAM OF THE COURT
FIRST CHRISTMAS
LEGS
THE DREAM OF ME WALKING
MID TERM
ALL WILL BE WHOLE
ENTRY
TO MUSIC

TWO: DAYS AND NIGHTS 3
PREFACE

1. FOR K.W. ON HER BIRTHDAY

2. F.H. AGAIN

3. DURHAM, 4 JUNE 1984 - FORT WORTH, 4 JUNE 1993

4. HOME FROM THE CLIBURN PIANO COMPETITION

5. TWENTY-ONE YEARS

6. RECUMBENT, SLEEPING

7. INDOORS

8. LUCK

9. A CHIPMUNK GONE AT CHRISTMAS

10. LION DREAM

11. FOR HUBERT DILWORTH DEAD IN HIS SLEEP

12. BACK AT MERTON COLLEGE

13. AFTER THE ANNUAL MRI SCAN, CLEAR

14. LIGHTNING BROWN DISCOVERS HE SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH EMILY DICKINSON

15. AFTER AN AIDS BENEFIT

16. NEAR THE DEATH OF THE SUN

17. ON THE ROAD NORTH

18. THE DYING BELT, DOUGLAS PASCHALL GONE

19. ANNIVERSARY, 9 JANUARY 1995

20. BESIEGED BUT STRONGER

21. MERE FACT

22. THE WHEELED EROS

23. TWO FRIENDS, PARTING

24. BACK, D.V.

25. SAFE HOME

26. ON THE ROAD

27. STEPHEN SPENDER DEAD

28. NAPALM

29. WITH A.T.M., BALTIMORE

30. WITH T.M., BALTIMORE

31. TENTH MRI

32. IN THE FALL

33. NEAR THANKSGIVING

34. TOWARD AN ENDING

35. THE DREAD

36. BIRTHDAY PARTY

37. FORTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

38. THE DAY ITSELF

39. TURTLE DANCE, SAN JUAN PUEBLO

40. A LONG STORM PASSING

41. SNOW

42. A CLASSICAL FRIEND

43. THE ISSUE

44. A VISIT THAT FEELS LIKE THE LAST

45. GONE

46. SCATTERING LIGHTNING IN THE SLAVE CEMETERY

47. EROS TYRANNOS

48. AN UNEXPECTED PARENT

49. SCOURED

50. A READING

51. BRIEF VISIT

52. SMALL ASTONISHMENTS

53. ECLIPSE

54. WANT

55. STUCK IN GEAR

56. QUIET EVENING

57. WHO?

58. MAY DAY

59. AT FEARRINGTON

60. LEFT

61. THE SWAP

62. WESTWARD

63. FROM HERE

64. NOB HILL

THREE

THE DANCING AT CANA
THIS FIELD
ANOTHER MEAL
THE LIST
FROM SO FAR
A HAVEN
THE DREAM OF MOTHER AND MY CANE
THE BUDDHA IN GLORY
SCORED BY LIGHT
THE PROSPECT
THE CLOSING, THE ECSTASY

Acknowledgments
Index of Titles

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