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- The Horses: New & Selected Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
This new and selected brings together a dramatic sweep of poetry from one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best-loved poet-critics. Four of Richard Silberg's books are included here, beginning with his first, Translucent Gears, published in 1982, through Doubleness, published in 2000. A previously unpublished long narrative-meditation interweaves a coming-of-age memoir, the Lurianic Cabala, and pure lyrical sections, topped off with a sharp, striking suite of new poems.
This is a book that masterfully balances several poetic strains rarely found together in a single body of work. The writing is accessible, presented in the form of narratives, descriptions, and dramatic monologues, but Silberg is also an adept of the image, of the poetic figure that leaps to epiphany. In yet another direction, a number of these poems move towards a kind of pure saying. Silberg's puns and language play on themselves at the threshold to philosophy. His sensibility is born out of the counterculture--warm, sexual, mystic, by turns funny, tough, and elegiac. He's a maverick, a singer, and an entertainer who believes in William Carlos Williams' maxim, "If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem."
Table of Contents
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- A Song for the Piano Player
- pp. 15-20
- The Audition
- pp. 21-22
- Tall Blossom
- pp. 23-24
- Belmont ’78
- pp. 27-34
- Part 2. From The Fields (1989)
- pp. 35-36
- The Center
- p. 37
- Each’s Own
- p. 39
- Postmodern
- p. 40
- Wild Cats and Weeds
- p. 41
- The Larger Time
- p. 42
- The Hopeful Horse
- p. 46
- First Things
- p. 47
- The Fields
- pp. 50-51
- Outside Eli’s
- p. 56
- Dealing the Faces
- pp. 59-84
- Part 4. From Totem Pole (1996)
- pp. 85-86
- For Poetry
- pp. 87-88
- Poetizing at the Med
- p. 102
- From the Inside Out
- pp. 105-106
- The Golden Gate
- pp. 107-108
- Personified
- p. 109
- The Old Neighborhood
- pp. 112-113
- Dream Body
- p. 114
- So to Speak
- pp. 116-117
- Totem Pole
- p. 118
- Steering the Train
- pp. 121-122
- 1650 Broadway
- pp. 123-130
- Part 5. From Doubleness (2000)
- pp. 131-132
- Phenomenology
- p. 133
- Once Again
- p. 135
- The Audience
- p. 137
- Dream of the Hand
- pp. 138-140
- Doubleness
- pp. 141-142
- Martin and Osa Johnson’s Africa
- pp. 144-145
- The Gorilla Woman
- pp. 147-148
- Near Santa Fe
- pp. 151-155
- Perfect Stealth
- p. 158
- The Horses
- pp. 162-177
- Scrying Soul
- pp. 180-181
- Dragonscape
- p. 183
- Coming Back
- pp. 184-189
- Part 6. New Poems
- pp. 193-194
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- p. 195
- Godfighter
- pp. 208-211
- Întortocheat
- p. 213
- What I Said
- pp. 215-216
- The Breast
- p. 222
- Gum Wrappers
- pp. 223-225
- Working in Films
- p. 231
- Storing the Day
- pp. 244-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093125
Related ISBN(s)
9781597092319
MARC Record
OCLC
867784125
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No