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- Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems
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- 2022
- Published by: Red Hen Press
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- FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON REVIEW: The late Frederick Morgan founded and edited The Hudson Review in 1947, remaining with it for 50 years
- ICONIC LEGACY: Frederick Morgan left a lasting legacy in the literary world
- FINAL, UNSEEN POEMS: This collection includes Frederick Morgan’s final poems before his passing
In Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, Frederick Morgan reworks and amplifies, in his extraordinary poetic range, the fundamental human themes that preoccupied him—love, death, pain, the nature and transcendence of the Self. In interweaving his many themes, he recaptures the past, the confrontation with the external world of nature and the internal world of dream, the oppositions and ambiguities of body and spirit, and the reduplications of meaning in legend and fable. Assembled from eight previous collections, and including his final poems, this profoundly moving book transcends individual expression to provide a powerful insight into universal human experience.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- from A BOOK OF CHANGE (1972)
- Port Caradoc
- p. 33
- Scotch Mary
- p. 34
- Poem of the Self
- p. 36
- The Oppositions
- p. 39
- The Reprieve
- p. 41
- The Vantage
- pp. 45-46
- from POEMS OF THE TWO WORLDS (1977)
- I
- In Silence
- p. 51
- The Letter
- p. 62
- From a Diary
- pp. 63-64
- II
- Pirate Poem
- p. 77
- The Rescue
- pp. 78-79
- The Exiles
- p. 80
- Autobiographies
- pp. 81-84
- III
- Two Poems to a Dead Woman
- pp. 87-88
- Grandfather Poem
- p. 89
- The Closed House
- p. 92
- IV
- Poems of the Two Worlds
- pp. 97-104
- V
- Blue Hill Poems
- pp. 108-113
- Whale Poem
- pp. 114-115
- Anger at my heart one April morning . . .
- pp. 116-117
- Winter Poem
- p. 122
- First of May
- pp. 123-124
- From the Kuan-Tzu
- pp. 125-126
- from DEATH MOTHER AND OTHER POEMS (1979)
- I
- Canandaigua
- pp. 133-135
- The Turtle
- pp. 139-140
- We took a room at the Westbury . . .
- pp. 141-142
- February 11, 1977
- pp. 145-146
- II
- Orpheus to Eurydice
- pp. 149-154
- III
- The Trader
- pp. 159-162
- Abenaki Poem
- p. 164
- The Promise
- pp. 165-166
- IV
- Death Mother
- pp. 169-174
- V
- The Wrong Side
- p. 178
- President Poem
- pp. 181-182
- Lucky black man in my dream . . .
- pp. 183-184
- The Summit
- pp. 186-188
- from REFRACTIONS (1981) & SEVEN POEMS BY MALLARMÉ (1981)
- Catullus: Carmen v
- p. 192
- Catullus: Carmen xi
- p. 193
- Catullus: Carmen xli
- p. 194
- Catullus: Carmen ci
- p. 195
- Baudelaire: A Voyage to Cythera
- pp. 204-206
- Mallarmé: Sigh
- p. 207
- Mallarmé: Saint
- p. 208
- Supervielle: In the Forest
- pp. 209-210
- from NORTHBOOK (1982)
- I
- Odin's Song
- p. 217
- Jormungand
- p. 223
- Loki's Song
- p. 230
- II
- The Murder
- pp. 235-236
- His Last Case
- pp. 237-238
- Captain Blaze
- pp. 239-241
- The Skulls
- pp. 243-244
- III
- Metamorphosis
- p. 250
- Interiorly
- p. 251
- Castle Rock
- p. 253
- The Master
- p. 255
- IV Seven Dream Poems
- The Demonstration
- pp. 261-262
- The Adventure
- p. 263
- The Reflection
- pp. 264-265
- The Choice
- p. 266
- From the Terrace
- p. 267
- The Diagrams
- pp. 268-270
- V
- from NEW POEMS (1987)
- The Christmas Tree
- p. 279
- Greenwich 1930s, I
- pp. 282-283
- Greenwich 1930s, II
- pp. 284-285
- The Night Skater
- p. 289
- Eight Triolets
- pp. 292-294
- from POEMS FOR PAULA (1995)
- I Maine
- The Hummingbird
- p. 305
- Nightwatchers
- p. 307
- Autumn Moments
- p. 308
- II New York
- The Breathing Space
- pp. 311-312
- I love grim autumn days . . .
- pp. 313-314
- I call it back . . .
- p. 315
- First Snow
- p. 316
- New Year's Poem
- p. 317
- The Busses
- p. 318
- The Depths
- p. 319
- The Mermaid
- p. 320
- from THE ONE ABIDING (2003)
- I
- Washington Square
- pp. 327-330
- Eleventh Street
- p. 331
- II
- September 1957
- p. 340
- The Recreant
- p. 341
- The Parting
- p. 342
- III
- In the Private Hospital
- pp. 349-350
- IV
- The Burial
- p. 358
- The Shamrock
- p. 359
- Recollections of Japan
- pp. 360-361
- Meditation at Sundown
- pp. 362-364
- V
- The Watcher
- p. 367
- The Priest
- pp. 368-369
- When I awoke at last . . .
- pp. 372-373
- After Shen Zhou
- p. 374
- LAST POEMS
- Season of Advent
- pp. 377-378
- The Soldier
- pp. 380-381
- Remember Waco
- p. 382
- Bank Street
- p. 389
- On Madison
- p. 391
- The Garden
- p. 394
- Perfection
- pp. 402-404
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 405-407
- Biographical Notes
- p. 408
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