In this Book
- The Double Witness: Poems: 1970-1976
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Ben Belitt writes, "This volume—my fifth—extends and deepens a preoccupation I have had with the visible and invisible manifestations of people, places, and things. It offers a variety of poems of formal and textural density and, in addition, a system of 'doublings' and 'solitudes' whose oppositions express the drama of reality and appearance."
Originally published in 1978.
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Table of Contents
- I. THE INVISIBLE EDGE
- The Repellant
- pp. 8-9
- Double Poem of the World's Burning
- pp. 10-12
- Full Moon: The Gorge
- pp. 13-14
- An Orange in Mérida
- p. 15
- The Guanajuato Mummies
- pp. 16-18
- II. FROM THE FIREHOUSE
- From the Firehouse
- pp. 21-22
- Cat's Cradle
- pp. 23-24
- A Suicide: Paran Creek
- pp. 25-26
- The Double-Goer
- pp. 27-30
- III. SOLITUDES
- Fat Tuesday
- pp. 33-34
- Boiling the Egg
- pp. 35-36
- Journey of Abel Martin
- pp. 37-42
- IV. THIS SCRIBE, MY HAND
- This Scribe, My Hand
- pp. 45-52
- V. BLOCK ISLAND: After the Tempest
- Block Island Crossing
- pp. 55-56
- Southeast Lighthouse
- pp. 57-58
- Freshwater Pond
- pp. 66-67
- A Choppy Sea
- pp. 68-69
- Nighttown: Block Island
- pp. 70-73