Drafts of Letter to an Imaginary Friend, Part III, and Various Poems
Scope and Contents
This folder contains the following poems which are listed by title or first line: "Letter to an Imaginary Friend (Part III)" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Totems MS VI" (handwritten) "Totems VI" (typed) "Afternoon of a McGrath" (handwritten) "Afternoon of a McGrath" (typed) "Late in the early dark" "Totems V" (handwritten) "Totems V" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Totems V" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Hard Bought" "In Search" "Remembering Loves and Deaths" "Body of a woman, shadows of black and white" "A Tomasito Poem" "Revisionist Poem--Pope" "Why We Love Wakan Tanka" "Revisionist Poem--Machado" "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "A Tomasito Poem" "John Grass Says" "Night Work" "For Tomasito" "You, Yannis Ritsos" "The true darkness of the forest" "Somewhere Ahead" "Footnote" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Comfort" "Remembering Issa" "My dandelions" "Ghost Fire" "End of a Season" "In the Stoa of Attalus" "Alas!" "In fog..." "A Theory" "A Sound of One Hand" "Solon's Song" "Conundrum" "Advice" "In the smallest tidepool" "Greek Wedding" "Children's Games" "The Children" (handwritten) "Totems (I)" "The Children" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Totems (IV)" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Totems (IV)" (handwritten) "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Revisionist Poem" "Toward Paradise" "The Preterition of Aquarius" "Preterition Again" "A Sociology of Instincts" "Totems (I)" (typed with handwritten corrections) "Totems (I)" (typed) "Totems (II)" (typed) "Totems (III)" (typed) "Mottoes for a Sampler on Historical Subjects" "The Last War Poem of the War" "Blues for Cisco Houston" "Something is Dying Here" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One Of Robert Bly's Old Poems" (typed) "Long Distance From a War" "Praises" "The Return" "In the Pentagon Parking Lot October '67" "What Wakes Us" "Travels of an American in Search of God" "A Homecoming for Odysseus" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One Of Bob Bly's Old Poems" (handwritten) "People coming with their arms full of books" "Crow Cry," "Children's Games" "The Lineaments of Unsatisfied Desire" "Sound of 1 Hand" "Alas!" "Children's Games" "Driving Toward Boston I Run Across One of Robert Bly's Old Poems" (typed) "The Little Judgment" "Pictures from the Lost Continent of Currier & Ives" "Salute" "Eclipse" "For Tomasito" "For Tomasito" "In the Sleep of Reason" "Eclipse" (handwritten) "Summer" "The Cottonwood" "A Million Puffs of Smoke!" "Surprise" "For Tomasito" "The Scalping Knife" "The Legends" "A barbwire fence" "The Sea Inside Us" "The Scalping Knife" "A barbwire fence interrupting" "Where Janie Went In" "Where Janie Went In" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Where Janie Went In" "Terrors and Advantages" "Summer lightening shivers in the high pine" "The Sound of One Hand" "What is Named" "Horses of the Moon--" "The Sound of One Hand I" "The Sound of One Hand I" "Horses of the Moon--" "Horses of the Moon--" "Arrivals" "The thinning fog--" "Arrivals" "Summer night O Magnificent" "Loon" "Arrivals" "The two--faced sea--" "The Sound of One Hand XIII" The two--faced sea--" "Darkness of Winter Solstice" "Everything vertical" "Everything vertical" "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "The high hunting hawk--" (4 Copies) "The list of one thousand false addresses" (4 Copies) "Everything Vertical" "The Sound of One Hand (concl.)" "Summer night O magnificent" (3 Copies) "West wind sleet cold november breath" "The stick of the blind man" "The Sound of One Hand" "The long wind of winter" "Darkness of winter solstice" "Summer Night O Magnificent" "Ear to Hear" "The Sound of One Hand II" "Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the little boy asks" "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting" "To speak is the vice" "Yes" "Among the Trophies of Death" "Empty Canvas" "All is not Well?" "Empty Canvas." "The Sound of One Hand" "Anonymity has a name;" "After moondown" "Down the small and crooked road" "The Sound of One Hand IV" "I am travelling, travelling;" "The Sound of One Hand VIII" "Umber Sundown" "For Alvaro" "Sleepy Birdsong..." "Pheasant Season" "The long wound of summer--" "Across the winter-white coulee hills" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Hunter in the field," "The Sound of One Hand" "Full moon and silence" "Powers of Darkness" "Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening" "I see the moon" "Your Knife's..." "Man Attacked by Bear" "The Exiles Epitaph" "That's the Way It Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Poem" "At Fargo" "After Moondown" "In November empty fields" "A Field of Sunflowers" "The Sound of One Hand" "The Sound of One Hand" "Darkness of winter solstice;" "The long wound of summer--" "Pheasant Season" "Sleepy birdsong..." "For Alvaro" "You out there, so secret." "I am travelling, travelling..." "The grand days," "Umber Sundown" "Across the winter-white coulee hills" "What we don't know kills us" "Little old deer in the dry creek" "The Sound of One Hand" "Small things, soft," "Arrivals" "After moondown" "Anonymity has a name;" "November empty fields:" "One Farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice" "The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "Among the trophies of Death:" "The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear:" "Empty playground," "Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the litte boy asks?" "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Surprise!" "Summer" "In the Sleep of Reason" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "Gloomy wood, and this highwayman" "Moon" "Full Moon" "The Stars" "Hunter in the cold field." "Across a thousand miles of snow" "The seas inside us" "The Little Judgment" "In the Sleep of Reason, Monsters are Born" "Affirmation" "Song" "The Deaths of Poets" "Sound of One Hand" "Meanwhile like a tired magician, from his" "Their darkness is not our darkness" "Dawn song" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "The Classics" "The long wind of winter" (3 Copies) "Hushed bright pond stillness" (3 Copies) "Among the Things We Are Left to Do" (3 Copies) "Loud November Rain." (3 Copies) "From Old Days" "What We Think We Know" "The Sound of One Hand XII" "A History of Language" "The Sound of One Hand III" "The Sound of One Hand" "Half-life" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Terrors and Advantages" "Resurrections" "A Distant Republic Demands" "After His Girl Cut Out" "Proportions" "Why I Never Married the Queen of--" "Legislations of Darkness" "The Sound of One Hand" "A Sound of One Hand X" "Faults of Darkness" "loon" "Cross Country Flight" "Weights and Measures" (3 Copies) "The Need for Dictionaries" "Classicism" "Classicism" "Why I Never Married the Queen of----" "Loon" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Terrors and Advantages" "Summer lightening shivers in the high pine" "The Need for Dictionaries II" "Horses of Moon" "The two--faced sea--" "Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Summer night O magnificent" "Callings" "In the list of one thousand false addresses" "In Other Worlds" "The slow sulphur" "Full moon and silence." "The stars" "Hunter in the cold field." "How it Feels to be Saved" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "Gloomy woods, and this highway" "The Need for Dictionaries III" "Moon" "The Unfairness of It All" "What We Don't Know Kills Us" "Small things, soft," "Arrivals" "Somewhere Ahead" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Comfort" "Remembering Issa" "My Dandelions" "Ghost fire" "In fog..." "A Theory" "Morning and Evening" "Advice" "In the smallest tidepool" "Peace! Land! Peyote" "Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest" "Greek Wedding" "Alas!" "Love Song" "The Dream Range" "Poem for the Front Door" "Totems" "Outside My Window" "The Preterition of Aquarious" "A Sociology of Instincts" "A Tomasito Poem" "Why We Love Wakan Tankan" "Revisionist Poem: Machado" "Next Door to the Poorhouse" "Tomasito's Conundrum" "Lament for Pablo Neruda" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Yes" "Westwind sleet cold November breath:" (2 Copies) "After moondown" (2 Copies) "The Sound of One Hand" (2 Copies) "Summer lightening shivers the high pine." (2 Copies) "Terrors and Advantages" (2 Copies) "Some Kinds of Knowledge" (2 Copies) "Loon" (2 Copies) "Why I Never Married the Queen of--------" (2 Copies) "Full Moon and Silence" "Summer Night O Magnificent" (2 Copies) "October leaf-fall" (2 Copies) "Hunter in the field," (2 Copies) "In November empty fields:" "Classecism" (2 Copies) "The Sound of One Hand" (2 Copies) "Be Careful"
Dates
- created: 1940-2003
- Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1975
Creator
- From the Collection: McGrath, Thomas (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 7.50 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections Repository
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