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Valentines Rod McKuen - New York Harper & Row, Publishers 1986 - 142 p.
Includes index.
Correspondence- Endorsement- Valentines- The eyes have it- Nobody's heart- For S. C.- Lido Beach- Lette from Sydney- Seattle- Berkeley Hotel- Quatrain- Saturday night- Semantics- Grey on Gray- Baggage- Thirty-seven- A Gallery: Irene- Dennis- Mrs. Allen- Mr. Thomas- Maria Louisa- Emile- Krystyna- Eugene Ormandy (1900-1985)- Jacques Brel (1929-1978)- Cowboys, One- Cowboys, Two- Cowboys, Three- For Blimby- David- Trevor- Betty and Phil- Fiore/1812- Andy- Hale Matthews- Sonnets From the Japanese: Railroad ties- A frost too early- Adam's other rib- Airborne- Ginger- Words worth- The scarlet letter- Morning's Diamond Chambers: Mornings enough- The yellow unicorn- State beach- Advice to the second-born- Channing way- Holidays- Channing way- Day song/Night song- Morning collection- Wood smoke- The distance to monterey- Time enough- Atlas- For his pleasure- Getting Back to Us: Boundaries- An evening poem- In case you didn't know- Revision- Brownstone- Vacant lot- Old houses, one- Old houses, two- Furrows- Another Monday, two months later- Words above the signature
McKuen himself describes Valentines as "a prelude to modern romance, that interval between love and death." The same sonnet sequence that describes "terrible letter A" as standing for AIDS, anorexia, Alzheimer's, alcohol, and so on has an off-the-wall and funny tribute to Ginger Rogers. Old images are mixed with new as he explores the many aspects of love wished for, in progress, and gone awry. His sketches of characters in "Gallery" read like a Who's Who of everyone each of us knows or has encountered personally. Whether mournful, wry, whimsical, or passionate, the poems are honest, striking, and inventive. The works here span thirty years of writing, some familiar but most brand new. Valentines is another unusual, moving, funny, provocative, eyebrow-raising (and lowering) visit with Rod McKuen.
0060155019
American Poetry 20th Century
811.54 McK 14
Valentines Rod McKuen - New York Harper & Row, Publishers 1986 - 142 p.
Includes index.
Correspondence- Endorsement- Valentines- The eyes have it- Nobody's heart- For S. C.- Lido Beach- Lette from Sydney- Seattle- Berkeley Hotel- Quatrain- Saturday night- Semantics- Grey on Gray- Baggage- Thirty-seven- A Gallery: Irene- Dennis- Mrs. Allen- Mr. Thomas- Maria Louisa- Emile- Krystyna- Eugene Ormandy (1900-1985)- Jacques Brel (1929-1978)- Cowboys, One- Cowboys, Two- Cowboys, Three- For Blimby- David- Trevor- Betty and Phil- Fiore/1812- Andy- Hale Matthews- Sonnets From the Japanese: Railroad ties- A frost too early- Adam's other rib- Airborne- Ginger- Words worth- The scarlet letter- Morning's Diamond Chambers: Mornings enough- The yellow unicorn- State beach- Advice to the second-born- Channing way- Holidays- Channing way- Day song/Night song- Morning collection- Wood smoke- The distance to monterey- Time enough- Atlas- For his pleasure- Getting Back to Us: Boundaries- An evening poem- In case you didn't know- Revision- Brownstone- Vacant lot- Old houses, one- Old houses, two- Furrows- Another Monday, two months later- Words above the signature
McKuen himself describes Valentines as "a prelude to modern romance, that interval between love and death." The same sonnet sequence that describes "terrible letter A" as standing for AIDS, anorexia, Alzheimer's, alcohol, and so on has an off-the-wall and funny tribute to Ginger Rogers. Old images are mixed with new as he explores the many aspects of love wished for, in progress, and gone awry. His sketches of characters in "Gallery" read like a Who's Who of everyone each of us knows or has encountered personally. Whether mournful, wry, whimsical, or passionate, the poems are honest, striking, and inventive. The works here span thirty years of writing, some familiar but most brand new. Valentines is another unusual, moving, funny, provocative, eyebrow-raising (and lowering) visit with Rod McKuen.
0060155019
American Poetry 20th Century
811.54 McK 14