And the Time Is: Poems, 1958-2013

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And the Time Is Other Works by Samuel Hazo Poetry Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues Like a Man Gone Mad The Song of the Horse A Flight to Elsewhere Just Once As They Sail The Holy Surprise of Right Now The Past Won’t Stay behind You Silence Spoken Here Nightwords The Color of Reluctance Thank a Bored Angel To Paris Quartered Once for the Last Bandit Twelve Poems Blood Rights My Sons in God Listen with the Eye The Quiet Wars Discovery Fiction The Time Remaining This Part of the World Stills The Wanton Summer Air The Very Fall of the Sun Inscripts Criticism Smithereened Apart: A Critique of Hart Crane Essays The Stroke of a Pen The Power of Less The Pittsburgh That Stays within You The Feast of Icarus The Rest Is Prose Spying for God The Autobiographers of Everybody Plays Watching Fire, Watching Rain Mano A Mano: A Flamenco Drama (The Life of Manolete) Feather Solos Until I’m Not Here Anymore And the Time Is Poems, 1958–2013 Samuel Hazo Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2014 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2014 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 “No Echo in Judea,” “Postscript to Many Letters,” “Preface to a Poetry Reading,” “To a Commencement of Scoundrels” by Samuel Hazo, from Thank a Bored Angel, copyright ©1983 by Samuel Hazo. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. “A City Made Sacred Because Your Son’s Grandfather Died in It,” “Only the New Branches Bloom,” “The Next Time You Were There,” “The Toys,” “Maps for a Song are Drawn as You Go,” “The Bearing,” “The Silence at the Bottom of the Well,” “Waiting for Zero” by Samuel Hazo, from To Paris, copyright ©1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981 by Samuel Hazo. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit www.Syracuse UniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1017-5 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5216-8 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hazo, Samuel, 1928– author. [Poems. Selections] And the time is : poems, 1958–2013 / Samuel Hazo. — First edition. pages cm ISBN 978-0-8156-1017-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5216-8 (ebook) I. Title. PS3515.A9877A6 2014 811'.54—dc23 2014012835 Manufactured in the United States of America For Samuel Robert Hazo And yet what is the present but a future that the past made possible? —From “Home Are the Sailors” THE AUTHOR of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Samuel Hazo is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . He is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Duquesne University. From 1950 to 1957 he served in the United States Marine Corps, completing his tour as a captain. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, and received his master’s degree from Duquesne University and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Some of his most recent books are Like a Man Gone Mad and The Song of the Horse (poetry), The Time Remaining and This Part of the World (Fiction), The Stroke of a Pen and The Power of Less (essays), and Watching Fire, Watching Rain (drama). He has also translated essays by Denis de Rougemont and the poems of Adonis and Nadia Tueni. His book of poems, Just Once: New and Previous Poems, received the Maurice English Poetry Award in 2003. The University of Notre Dame, from which he received the Griffin Award for Creative Writing in 2005, awarded him the tenth of his twelve honorary doctorates in 2008. A National Book Award finalist, he was chosen the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Governor Robert Casey in 1993, and he served until 2003. ...