Poetry by Thomas McGrath
Scope and Contents
This folder contains the following poems (listed according to title or first line): "Yes" "Be Careful" "All month long I have heard the owls" "Among the Things We Are Left to Do" "The stars! The stars!" "You, Yannis Ritsos" "Affirmation" "Peace! Land! Peyote!" "Visitors" "The true darkness of the forest" "Greek Wedding" "Alas!" "Eclipse" "ON THE OCCASION of the launching of the Red" "In the smallest tidepool" "Advice" "Morning and evening" "A Theory" "In fog..." "Ghost fire" "My dandelions" "Remembering Issa" "Comfort" "Fallen chestnut blossoms" "Somewhere Ahead" "Surprise" "A barbwire fence" "The Scalping Knife" "Summer" "The Cottonwood" "A million puffs of smoke!" "Arrivals" "What We Don't Know Kills Us" "THE UNFAIRNESS OF IT ALL" "Moon" "The Need for Dictionaries III" "Gloomy woods, and this highwayman" "The scarecrow shivering in November corn." "The stars" "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" "Anonymity has a name" "One farmhouse light--" "To speak is the vice" "The queen of Accident County" "All is not well?" "Empty canvas." "The stick of the blind man" "Ear to hear;" "Empty playground," "Down the small and crooked road" "Did you bring me a present? the little boy asks." "Black" "The rabbit dreams of hunting." "Why I never married" "Loon" "Where Janie Went In" "Epitaph of a Man Devoured by Monsters" "Full moon and silence" "Powers of Darkness" "Route Song and Epitaph" "Summer Lightening" "I see the moon." "Your knife's a most particular guest," "The man attacked" "The Exiles Epitaph" "That's the Way it Goes" "A Season" "Presumptions" "Poem" "At Fargo" "The Need for Dictionaries II" "Horses of the moon--" "The two-faced sea--" Sultry afternoon. The old dog" "Callings" "In the list of one thousand false addresses" "In Other Worlds" "After moondown" "A Field of Sunflowers" "The slow sulfur" "The Need for Dictionaries" "Legislators of Darkness" "Loud November Rain" "Faults of Darkness" "A Distant Republic Demands" "A History of Language" "Hushed bright pond stillness." "Cross Country Flight" "Solidarity" "Proportions" "Resurrections" "Terrors and Advantages" "Some Kinds of Knowledge" "Half-life" "What We Think We Know" "Lightcrackle." "Among the trophies of Death" "Small things, soft," "Nothing is lost" "From Old Days" "Weights and Measures" "In a Landscape West of Eden" "Hunter in the cold field." "The Classics" "How it Feels to be Saved"
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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