In this Book
- The Age of Reasons: Uncollected Poems 1969–1982
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
This collection of Ted Greenwald's poetry, edited by Miles Champion, is a sampler of some of Greenwald's most breathtaking work. A New York poet with close ties to the New York School and the Language poets, Greenwald has written daily since the early 1960s, and none of the poems in this book are included in any of his books to date. These discrete works were written in advance of or alongside the extended explorations of a mutated triolet form that increasingly occupied him from the late 1970s on. This book can be seen as a companion to Common Sense, and provides further evidence of Greenwald's ability to think with his ear, to hear what's said as it arrives as a fresh sound or shape in his head. This work is singular in its pattern-making, its music-making, and its ability to simultaneously follow multiple paths. An online reader's companion will be available at tedgreenwald.site.wesleyan.edu
Table of Contents
- Editor’s Note
- pp. 10-15
- “man / who write”
- p. 16
- Show and Tell
- pp. 17-19
- “air like art”
- p. 20
- A Good Night’s
- pp. 22-23
- “do / they / worry”
- p. 24
- Waiting Spoon
- p. 25
- I Love You
- pp. 27-28
- Somebody Wants You
- pp. 29-30
- Poem (“theirs”)
- p. 33
- In the Meantime
- p. 35
- It’s Asking
- p. 36
- Sunnyside Up
- pp. 37-44
- There’s a Meaning
- pp. 45-47
- Down the Drain
- pp. 49-50
- Salad Days
- p. 51
- Going My Way
- p. 54
- “I open / my eyes”
- p. 57
- Scalp Excitement
- p. 58
- The Sandwich Islands
- pp. 60-71
- “air / joins / us”
- p. 72
- Mufti Explodes
- p. 73
- Delicate Petals
- p. 74
- Everything Seems
- p. 75
- Over the Edge
- p. 76
- Eyelids Turn
- p. 78
- Almost Amazement
- p. 79
- A Technical Report
- pp. 80-82
- Open the Window to the Soul
- pp. 83-84
- Aeolian Harp
- pp. 85-86
- Form-Fitting Hips
- p. 87
- Seated on a Hill
- p. 92
- Oh, My Goodness
- p. 94
- When Looking Over the Room
- pp. 95-96
- The Day Following
- pp. 97-99
- Out of Thin Air
- p. 100
- When You Start
- p. 101
- “industrial / amazement”
- p. 103
- The Outlying District
- pp. 104-113
- From There
- p. 114
- Heartstrings
- pp. 115-116
- Talk’s Disappearing
- p. 117
- Spare Hours
- pp. 123-126
- Bagged Whims Excite
- p. 127
- Lock Up the Chairs
- pp. 128-129