
Drafts, Fragments, and Poems
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Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray's sole collection, Poems, published after her death at the early age of twenty-four and selected by W. H. Auden for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, has been almost entirely unavailable for the better part of half a century. Poems was put together by Grant Code, a close friend of Murray's mother, and when Murray's papers, long thought to be lost, reappeared in 2013, it became clear that Code had exercised a heavy editorial hand. This new collection, edited by Farnoosh Fathi from Murray's original manuscripts, restores Murray's raw lyricism and visionary lines, while also including a good deal of previously unpublished work, as well as a selection of her exuberant letters.
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John Ashbery (1927-1917) was the author of several books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. His first collection, Some Trees (1956), was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. From 1990 until 2008 Ashbery was the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. His most recent collection of poems, Commotion of the Birds, was published in October 2016.
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of the poetry collection Great Guns and founder of the Young Artists Language & Devotion Alliance (YALDA). She teaches at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes and lives in New York.
Content
- Intro
- Biographical Notes
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright and More Information
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- POEMS (1947)
- "If, here in the city, lights glare from various source,"
- This Makes for War!
- "You think you complain of the ugliness of people."
- "There's a small tale I'd like to tell you here. A bit sad I believe."
- "Three men sat at a millstone table"
- "The Oblique chapels of the Gothic,"
- "The starved houses without brinks or people"
- The Builder
- "The man who smiles and totters with the riveter"
- "Sleep little architect it is your mother's wish"
- "Night rising from sleek coils a snake in the house of the Architect"
- Work in Progress
- "There are shapes out of the North."
- "You talk of art of work of books"
- "What can I do Methuselah your time is mine"
- Ascetic: Time Misplaced
- On Dit!
- Ego Alter Ego
- To W. H. Auden
- The Young Host of Rockledge
- Poem: For Dai
- "Here we stand before the temporal world"
- You Spoke of Windmills
- The Long Trail
- Poem
- "Things that are sinuous are the rivers of the land"
- "Not that I had ever laughed too much"
- "Like a wind passing slowly along the valley"
- Drought
- The Exiles
- Spring
- Vermont and the Hills and the Valleys
- Vermont Journey
- Old Men
- New England Woman
- Mad John
- The Magdelina
- Talk of People in Warning
- The Song of Things Watching
- An Epithalamium: Marriage Poem for an Age
- "There is a rocky jut, flung like a disc"
- "Time was like the snail in his cupolaed house"
- "There is simple promise to be put forward."
- "There was a devil that slipped"
- The Anchorite
- "There has been more than beginning and end to face."
- Poem
- "Men and women only have meaning as man and woman"
- "Believe me, my fears are ancient,"
- "Here where I tamper at the inverted walls of tomorrow
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- "In the night we peopled evil forests,"
- "A night spent in watching"
- "Instinct and sleep you are two passages that converge"
- "Sleep whose hour has come"
- "River of light"
- "I feel only the desolation of wide water,"
- "Even the gulls of the cool Atlantic retip the silver foam,"
- Of Wings
- "Of plains of sand that spend themselves"
- Poem
- The Coming of Strange People
- Poem
- "Ahab the super-monomaniac, the finite creation leaguing it"
- On Looking at Left Fields
- "London sits with her hands cupped"
- "Ilfracomb is a sea town where rocks elbow"
- "Speaking to Exiles-the one Exile."
- "And though it is evening and I am tired,"
- "There is a bursting of the pulse of time"
- The Steps of Bast
- "And as I came out from the temples and stared"
- Jew Amongst Ruins
- "The caves are sad where the archeologists stood"
- "'Penelope!'"
- Orpheus: Three Eclogues
- LETTERS AND PROSE
- Letters to Helen Anderson
- "I am held speechless in the hands of some spirit indefinite and prostrate." (July 1, 1937)
- "You will then rejoice to know that I have four pages instead of two." (July 7, 1937)
- "This morning I woke up with a quick laugh like the sun." (August 1937)
- "I had spent the whole afternoon in the park, thinking very little," (November 1937)
- "For a month I am free to build out of my insipidities, little dead-awake ghosts" (December 1937)
- Letter to Her Mother, Peggy Murray
- "The house will have two radiators when you return, one in the big window, another near your instrument." (September 23, 1940)
- Letters to W. H. Auden
- "I did not know whether you meant to send the manuscript back at all." (Undated)
- "I have been trying extremely hard to hit something of the spot in myself that produced the Eclogues." (June 9, 1941)
- Letter to Baroness
- "I believe you will be continuing your trip at this time." (July 19, 1941)
- Passage on Reading
- "I am what might be termed an irreverent reader a termite denting thinly at so many surfaces." (Undated)
- DRAFTS, FRAGMENTS, AND POEMS
- A Poem
- Sterility
- "Now fellow caught upon the limb"
- Dawn
- "In act and in power their people grew sterner,"
- Song
- Song
- "It was a dull silk day"
- "Now whether the dead are here?"
- "It is evening and the gulls are at sea."
- "All earth swellings bear a twisted peak,"
- "The opulent sky"
- "1. Is all at least partially as you might wish?"
- "Vermont valley where the suns spread down,"
- "The hour like a child runs down the angle of star and rests at the bottom"
- "Think of the spring-warm in its new beauty"
- The Dream of the Architect
- "Woman whose body"
- "Black people, you listen to me,"
- "When moonlight skies are new"
- "Build the churches high and straight"
- "In the evening over the well curved hills"
- "Leaves winter leaves where do you blow"
- Song
- "You like stars bless!"
- Vision in Arcaid
- Lines to Various Modern Authors
- Ulysses
- Jingle
- Fata Morgana
- "And so with a sunk and oozing eye"
- Shepherd Boy's Lament
- Wantastiquet
- "The throbbing sob of dance night things,"
- "Pearl lustred"
- Double-Trouble
- The Rose
- A Tear
- "O' light that kneels across the sea-"
- "Their daughter is there alone as she must be"
- "Do not compromise the illegitimate"
- "What I cannot forget in memory are the unbreakable pictures"
- "Jewish woman leaning over a basket of thin sheaves"
- "All is shrill and bright with men to fallow in"
- "As worlds connived and merchant London burned"
- "A boy whose hair is wheat yellow"
- "Shadow sublimated ride thyself"
- "Like a bell the sounds of the trees are moving"
- "The walls are cast-unbent"
- "One day as I gazed far above the salient mountain-tops"
- "I walked by the waters"
- I Am My Deep Sunk Womb
- "Willow do not always weep delicately"
- "Through doors and windows"
- "Neither that that you may see"
- "The trees hang lustrous arms smooth-barked"
- APPENDIX
- Foreword to Poems (1947) by W. H. Auden
- Notes
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