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Oblique Prayers: New Poems with 14 Translations from Jean Joubert
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Oblique Prayers: New Poems with 14 Translations from Jean Joubert

by Denise Levertov. 87 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Denise Levertov

Publisher:

   New Directions

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1984
Subjects:   Poetry, Joubert, Jean,--1928---Translations Into English
Table of contents
Content
AUTHOR'S NOTE vii
I DECIPHERINGS
Decipherings 3
Broken Ghazals 6
The Gaze Salutes Lyonel Feininger While Crossing the New Jersey Wastelands 8
Mappemonde 9
Blue Africa 10
Seers 11
Lovers (I) 12
Lovers (II): Reminder 13
Seeing for a Moment 14
Man Wearing Bird 15
The Mourner 17
Sundown Sentences 18
Counting Sheep 19
Of Necessity 20
Grey Sweaters 21
Presence 22
Another Revenant 24
II PRISONERS
"Silent Spring" 29
Vocation 31
Thinking About El Salvador 33
Perhaps No Poem But All I Can Say And I Cannot Be Silent 35
Deathly Diversions 37
Rocky Flats 38
Watching Dark Circle 39
Gathered at the River 40
Prisoners 43
The Cry 44
III FOURTEEN POEMS BY JEAN JOUBERT
Ecriture du vent/Wind Script 48
Cette autre encore/Again That Other 48
L'été se clôt/from L'été se clôt 50
Eau de lune/Moonwater 52
Venise décembre/ December Venice 52
Les quatre réveils/The Four Alarm Clocks 54
La sentence/The Sentence 54
Chat vieux/Ancient Cat 56
Dans la cuisine/In the Kitchen 58
Portrait d'homme/Portrait of a Man 58
Troisiéme hypothése sur la mort d'Empedocle/ Third Hypothesis on the Death of Empedocles 60
Est-ce le vent qui nous gouverne?/ Are We Ruled by the Wind? 62
Éclat du ciel/Brilliant Sky 64
L'arriére-saison du poéte/The Poet's Late Autumn 64
IV OF GOD AND OF THE GODS
Of Rivers 71
Of Gods 72
Poplar in Spring 73
Last Night's Dream 74
To the Morton Bay Figtree, Australia, a Tree-God 75
The Avowal 76
The God of Flowers 77
The Task 78
St. Peter and the Angel 79
This Day 80
Oblique Prayer 82
The Antiphon 84
". . . That Passeth Understanding" 85
Of Being 86
Passage 87
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