In this Book
- The Whole Song: SELECTED POEMS
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The American Poetry Recovery Series
summary
With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxxii
- Shoe City
- Jeffery Tallcott
- pp. 4-5
- Peter Joyce
- pp. 6-39
- Tanney Bronson
- pp. 7-40
- William McCarthy
- pp. 9-42
- The Factories
- pp. 10-11
- Fluoroscope of Evening
- pp. 12-45
- Workshops in Labor
- pp. 13-14
- The City with Empty Closets
- pp. 15-48
- Letter to My Brother
- pp. 16-49
- Forge Plant
- pp. 17-50
- Termites in the Floor
- pp. 18-19
- Ignorance Escapes from the Tomb
- pp. 20-21
- Under the Heel
- pp. 22-55
- Live Cemeteries
- pp. 23-24
- The Reign of Beasts
- pp. 25-58
- Fishtown
- Fishcutters
- pp. 29-62
- A Little Autobiography
- pp. 31-64
- This House
- pp. 32-65
- In the Arriving (excerpts)
- pp. 33-38
- The Square Root of In (excerpts)
- pp. 39-40
- The Other Side
- pp. 41-74
- The Garden of the Apocalypse
- pp. 42-75
- The Theia Mania of Charles Olson
- pp. 46-47
- Dialogue with Thoreau
- pp. 52-53
- Moon Soliloquy
- pp. 54-56
- Know Fish
- The Flood Time of Fishing
- pp. 59-62
- A Song of Rage
- pp. 63-96
- Council Meeting
- pp. 64-65
- Pharaoh Otto Bosselman
- pp. 67-100
- Mural of the Harbor
- pp. 68-69
- Angel of Death
- pp. 70-103
- Blacklisted
- pp. 71-104
- Blessing of the Gasoline Tankers
- pp. 72-105
- Ballad ov da Cut
- pp. 74-107
- Torch Moynahan
- pp. 75-108
- Fort Defiance
- pp. 76-109
- Rag Picca: Trowaways
- pp. 77-110
- Da Summa Creche: Da Castagnaccis
- pp. 78-111
- Duntouchables
- pp. 79-112
- Da Loss ov da Capt Cosmos
- pp. 80-113
- Divinin Rod
- pp. 81-114
- Patty Welch’s Dream & Mimi Dreamin
- pp. 82-115
- The Navigators
- December 26, 1969
- pp. 88-121
- January 23, 1970
- pp. 89-122
- September 3, 1970
- pp. 90-123
- September 29th of the lost year
- pp. 91-124
- August 5th, another lost year
- pp. 92-93
- August 7, 1976
- pp. 94-127
- November 3/1977
- pp. 95-128
- Gloucester A.D. 1973
- pp. 96-97
- Charley Olson
- pp. 98-131
- The Ghost of Rocky Neck
- pp. 99-100
- The Community of Self
- We are born sleepworking
- pp. 101-102
- At the Brink
- pp. 103-104
- A Preface to the Art of Fishing
- pp. 105-108
- We Are the Wildflowers
- pp. 109-143
- The Winter of Ideologies
- pp. 110-144
- Sea Medicine
- pp. 111-145
- Stale Supper
- pp. 112-146
- The Holiest of Holies
- pp. 113-147
- The Olson Strain
- pp. 114-148
- The Salt Marshes of Our Lady
- pp. 115-117
- Wraith Reading
- pp. 124-158
- The Big Question
- pp. 125-126
- This Other Ocean
- Ellis Island Rediscovered
- pp. 129-163
- The Interrogation
- pp. 130-164
- A Poem Is Made Of
- pp. 132-166
- The Gas Poem
- pp. 133-134
- The Gold Miner
- pp. 137-140
- July 4, 1776, Sign of Interdependencies
- pp. 141-142
- Foreknowing
- pp. 143-144
- Magdalene Silences
- Journey to Raiano
- pp. 147-151
- Love Song for the Jews
- pp. 152-154
- The Magi Image
- IHS (excerpts)
- pp. 161-165
- Song of the Amaranth
- pp. 166-200
- The Rocks of Wisdom
- pp. 167-170
- The Indweller
- The Alchemy of the Poem
- pp. 173-176
- Rhapsody of the God Fish
- pp. 177-178
- Beyond 9/11
- The Whole Song
- pp. 181-182
- A Fact of No Time
- pp. 183-184
- Notes to the Poems
- pp. 191-202
- Vincent Ferrini Bibliography
- pp. 203-206
- Index of Titles
- pp. 207-208
- About the Author
- pp. 243-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252091193
Related ISBN(s)
9780252029097
MARC Record
OCLC
844940349
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2004