Spaces of Hope

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ISBN: 9780856463013 | 0856463019
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2004

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Peter Jay, founder of Anvil Press, was born in 1945. He studied Classics and English at Oxford University and has published his own poems as well as a number of translations from poets such as Ana Blandiana, Janos Pilinszky and Gerard de Nerval.

Foreword	p. 13
'Could it be true'	p. 17
A Chance	p. 17
Childhood	p. 18
A Picture	p. 18
On the Death of Friends in Childhood	p. 19
'A little girl'	p. 19
His Dream	p. 19
The Skeleton Dance	p. 20
Young Girl Sulking	p. 21
A Childhood Recollection	p. 21
A Photograph of Two Brothers	p. 22
Fingers in the Door	p. 23
Ghazal of the Dead Child	p. 23
The File	p. 24
Mr. Wathen's Demise	p. 24
Proofs	p. 25
T. Sturge Moore	p. 26
Someone	p. 26
'Aspen tree, your leaves'	p. 27
Paul Celan	p. 27
At the Window	p. 28
After Death	p. 29
Villon on Death	p. 29
'Think of your conception'	p. 30
Dead Language	p. 31
Slowly the Truth Dawns	p. 31
Something Like a Sky	p. 32
The Diver	p. 32
Iphigenia of Bochum	p. 33
The Haunting	p. 34
Sentence	p. 34
Sixth Elegy	p. 35
Up Through the River Valley	p. 36
Here in Katmandu	p. 36
The Undertaking	p. 38
Dust	p. 38
The Heart of the Quartz Pebble	p. 39
Everything in the City	p. 40
No Half-Measures	p. 40
'Bring wine, my boy'	p. 41
A Remarkable Thing	p. 41
'A pattern of birds'	p. 41
'Drunk with Mine Host and the Fiddlers'	p. 42
Waiting	p. 43
Something Said, Waking Drunk on a Spring Day	p. 44
Prayer	p. 44
'On Aspalathoi ...'	p. 45
Etude	p. 46
Peach Blossom	p. 46
Don't Talk to Me about Bread	p. 47
Riddle	p. 48
Black Beans	p. 49
A Dull Morning Enlivened	p. 49
Bacon and Cabbage	p. 49
Too Many Cooks	p. 50
Vesuvius, 24 August A.D. 79	p. 51
Holderlin in Tubingen	p. 52
Half of Life	p. 53
Corycian Saffron	p. 53
The Moonflower	p. 54
A Picture of R. C. in a Prospect of Blossom	p. 55
Mirages	p. 56
The Rose	p. 56
Roses, Chrysanthemums	p. 57
Chrysanthemums, Rowers	p. 58
The Summers of Nowhere	p. 61
Haiku: The Season of Celebrity	p. 62
Last Quarter	p. 62
The Planes	p. 63
The Desert of Love	p. 64
The Pont Mirabeau	p. 65
Part of a Bird	p. 66
Fluntern	p. 69
Fingers Pick Up Sunshine	p. 70
Swimming at Midnight	p. 71
Solar Creation	p. 72
'In the oasis of the day'	p. 72
The August Sleepwalker	p. 73
Nudes	p. 74
A Day	p. 74
The Grammar of Light	p. 75
Summer's End	p. 76
'Frost / lacing'	p. 76
Autumn Emotion	p. 77
Cigolando	p. 78
Corona	p. 78
Autumn Rain Lament	p. 79
Teasing Tu Fu	p. 80
November Elysium	p. 80
November	p. 81
At Midnight	p. 83
Jade-Staircase Grievance	p. 84
'In stone settlements'	p. 84
Song at Year's End	p. 85
The Return	p. 86
Squall	p. 87
Mean Time	p. 87
And Suddenly It's Evening	p. 88
'How we pass time'	p. 88
You Lie Down to Sleep	p. 89
'Sleep wrapped you in green leaves'	p. 90
Blue Dreamlight Shaman Song	p. 91
Sleep, Silhouette	p. 92
Sin: A Dream	p. 94
A Translator's Nightmare	p. 94
First Fear	p. 96
Keeping Steady	p. 97
3 a.m	p. 97
Perhaps the Heart	p. 98
Giacomo Leopardi in Naples	p. 98
from People	p. 103
Coolie	p. 104
The Story of a Story	p. 105
The Master	p. 106
Moving House	p. 114
In Rooms	p. 114
Men at Forty	p. 115
Rent	p. 116
Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses	p. 117
The Little Box	p. 118
The House	p. 119
from Casa / House	p. 120
'Loving the rituals'	p. 120
A Guest	p. 121
From Ashes	p. 122
Poet's Refuge	p. 123
Places We Love	p. 124
In the Village of My Forefathers	p. 124
A Wild Joy	p. 125
Hunting	p. 126
Quatrain Without Sparrows, Helpful Bells or Hope	p. 127
After Any Wreck	p. 127
'Three rocks, a few burnt pines'	p. 128
The Hitch-Hiker's Curse on Being Passed By	p. 129
The Next Poem	p. 130
Toast	p. 131
The Tired Tourists	p. 132
Aegean	p. 132
To The Most Beloved City	p. 134
Venice in Winter	p. 134
In Praise of New York	p. 135
Looking Back: Iowa	p. 136
The Valley	p. 136
In Your Mind	p. 137
Background Noise	p. 138
Guarnerius	p. 138
Echo	p. 139
In the Ring of Green Silence	p. 140
The Tunnels	p. 141
Fair in the Stars	p. 142
Music	p. 142
Lady Harpsichord	p. 143
The Container of the Uncontainable	p. 143
To Music	p. 144
'I'll sing you seven seas'	p. 144
Sunken Oboe	p. 145
Requiem on Poros	p. 145
The Talker	p. 146
Long Songs after Short Songs	p. 146
The Tree of Life	p. 147
You and I	p. 148
The Flight of the Sparrow	p. 148
Psalm	p. 149
The Magi	p. 150
Meditation	p. 150
'In a small patch of heaven'	p. 152
A Carol	p. 153
The Question	p. 154
The Dusts	p. 155
Golden Lines	p. 156
Virgin Verses (1860)	p. 157
Paul Verlaine in Lincolnshire	p. 157
Small Prayer without Pretensions	p. 159
Prayer	p. 160
Grace Before Liberty	p. 160
Daunia	p. 161
Wulf	p. 163
'Love in silence'	p. 164
'Living / with her'	p. 165
'I saw the tracks of angels'	p. 165
Small Cold Poem	p. 166
Words, Wide Night	p. 166
Missing Persons	p. 167
The Small Change	p. 167
Waiting for a Lover	p. 168
Sailing Away from Night	p. 168
She Passes Through the Poem	p. 169
Warming Her Pearls	p. 170
The Young Man of Galway's Lament	p. 171
Ch'ang-kan Village Song	p. 174
Alison	p. 176
Bees in the Rafters	p. 176
Surplus	p. 177
Grand-Daughter	p. 178
Joanna from Ravenna	p. 179
The Unmatched Emperors	p. 180
The Siege	p. 181
After the Battle	p. 182
from Amorgos	p. 182
Looping Above the West	p. 184
The Dead Man	p. 185
'Against this'	p. 186
On the Back of a Photograph	p. 187
Night Patrol	p. 187
'There was earth inside them'	p. 188
Green, Green is El Aghir	p. 189
On the Wall of a KZ-Lager	p. 189
Elegy, 19-	p. 190
A New Thing Breathing	p. 191
I Have Come Back	p. 191
Lament	p. 192
Meeting	p. 193
Landscape Over Zero	p. 193
'There is a gold light in certain old paintings'	p. 194
Joy	p. 195
Laughter	p. 195
Jittoku, Buddhist Mystic - 15th Century	p. 196
Interlude of Joy	p. 197
The Spaces of Hope	p. 198
Notes	p. 199
Afterword	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 211
Index of Poets and Translators	p. 219
Index of Titles	p. 221
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