New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011

Title Page, Copyright, Acknowledgments, Dedication

New & Selected Poems 1957–2011 BOOKS OF POETRY • Advertisements, Odyssey Chapbook Number One, 1958 • Uncle Dog & Other Poems, 1962 • Kissing The Dancer & Other Poems, Introduction by William Meredith, 1964 • Thousand-Year-Old Fiancée, 1965 • Horgbortom Stringbottom, I Am Yours, You Are History, 1970 • Hannah’s Cartoon, 1970 • Quorum/Noah (With Mike Doyle), 1970 • Gift, 1971 • Five Iowa Poems, 1975 • Cheers For Muktananda, 1976 • Honey Bear On Lasqueti Island, B.C., 1978 • Six Poems, 1980 • Twelve Poems, 1982 • Movies: Left To Right, 1983 • Half-A-Life’s History, Poems New & Selected, Introduction by Earle Birney, 1983 • The Three Roberts, Premiere Performance, 1984 Featuring Robert Priest, Robert Zend and Robert Sward • The Three Roberts On Love, 1985 • The Three Roberts On Childhood, 1985 • Poet Santa Cruz, Introduction by Morton Marcus, 1985 • FourIncarnations,New&SelectedPoems,1991 • Rosicrucian in the Basement, Introduction by William Minor, 2001 • Three Dogs and a Parrot, 2001 • Heavenly Sex, New & Selected Poems, 2002 • The Collected Poems, 1957-2004 (second printing 2006) • GodisintheCracks,2006(secondprinting2007) FICTION • The Jurassic Shales, A Novel, 1975 • Family, with contributions by David Swanger, Charles Atkinson, Tilly Shaw, 1994 • A Much-Married Man, A Novel, 1996 NON-FICTION • TheTorontoIslands,AnIllustratedHistory,1983 • Autobiography, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS), Vol. 206, 2003 EDITED BY ROBERT SWARD • Vancouver Island Poems, An Anthology, 1973 • Emily Carr: The Untold Story, 1978 CDS, DVDS, ElECTRONIC BROADSIDES AND ChAPBOOKS • Rosicrucian in the Basement, as read by the author, Recorded for the KPFA-FM Program: Cover to Cover, Berkeley, CA, 2002 • Robert Sward: Poetry, Review & Interview with Jack Foley, Recorded for the KPFA-FM Program: Cover to Cover, Berkeley, CA, 2002 • Writers’ Friendship, A conversation with Jack Foley and Robert Sward, Recorded for the KPFA-FM Program: Cover to Cover, Berkeley, CA, 2003 • RobertSwardInterviewfor‘TheMuse’DVD Magazine,BossProductions,DVDVideo,2005. • The Dogs in My Life, Blue’s Cruzio Café, DVD, 2008. • DVD Muse Magazine, produced and edited by Wallace Boss, Santa Cruz, CA, 2005 wboss@sbcglobal.net • Earthquake Collage, Blue Moon Review, electronic chapbook based on 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake • God is in the Cracks, electronic chapbook, mp3 sound, graphics, seven poems read by the author—found on the following websites: http://www.robertsward.com http://jjwebb.ihwy.com/rosycrossfather/ index.html Videocomponentoftheelectronicchapbook: http://www.VirtualWorldStudio.com • A Man Needs A Place to Stand—Oneminute autobiographical poem—A Future Peak video found on the following website: http://www.futurepeak.net/vidlinks/ robertswardstand2005.htm AlSO BY ROBERT SWARD New & Selected Poems 1957–2011 Robert Sward RED HEN PRESS | Pasadena, CA New & Selected Poems: 1957–2011 Copyright © 2011 by Robert Sward All rights reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner. Book design by Andrew Mendez ISBN: 978-1-59709-261-6 (tradepaper) ISBN: 978-1-59709-453-5 (hardcover) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sward, Robert, 1933– [Poems. Selections] New & selected poems, 1957–2011 / Robert Sward. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59709-261-6 (tradepaper) I. Title. II. Title: New and selected poems, 1957–2011. PS3569.W3A6 2011 811’.54—dc22 2011020510 The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs partially support Red Hen Press. First Edition Published by Red Hen Press www.redhen.org ACKNOWlEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications for permission to reprint many of the poems in this book: Arion 9 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Alsop Review (eZine), Ambit (London), Another Chicago Magazine (ACM #37), Antioch Review, Approach Magazine, Arts in Society (Madison, Wisconsin), The Activist (Oberlin College), Artes/Letres Dialogos (Mexico City), Beloit Poetry Journal, Best Articles & Stories, Blue Moon Review (eZine), BookPress: The Newspaper of the Literary Arts (Ithaca, NY), Carleton Miscellany, Center (New York), Chelsea Review (New York), Chicago Review, Contemporary Verse II (University of Manitoba, Canada), Cross Canada Writers’ Quarterly (Toronto), Davka, Jewish Cultural Revolution DAVKA, (San Francisco), Denver Quarterly, Descant, Disquieting Muses (eZine), El Corno Emplumado (Mexico City), Epoch (Cornell University), The Etruscan (New South Wales, Australia), Exposicion Exhaustiva De La Nueva Poesia Galeria (Montevideo, Uruguay), Equal Time (New York); Extensions (New York), Fiction-Online, An Internet Literary Magazine, The Fiddlehead (New Brunswick, Canada), From A Window (Tucson, AZ), Galley Sail Review, Greenfield Review (Greenfield Center, NY), Hanging Loose Press (Brooklyn...