From The Meadow
From The Meadow: Selected And New Poems
PETER EVERWINE
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 2004
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0
Pages: 112
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wrdp0
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From The Meadow
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"His poems are timeless, lyrical songs that transcend the dark forces of our society and call for a deeper understanding of our values. Becoming familiar again with old poems by a gifted master is like reliving the days when poetry truly came from the heart to ravish and define who we are." --Bloomsbury Review "These exquisite poems are so well paced that nothing ever seems forced or misplaced." --Library Journal "[Everwine] presents us with poetry in which each moment is recorded, laid bare, and sanctified, which is to say the poems posses a quality one finds only in the greatest poetry." --Ploughshares

eISBN: 978-0-8229-9100-7
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.2
  3. The Condition
    The Condition (pp. ix-x)
    T. KARMI
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.3
  4. I
    • How It Is
      How It Is (pp. 3-3)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.4
    • Back from the Fields
      Back from the Fields (pp. 4-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.5
    • Dorothy
      Dorothy (pp. 5-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.6
    • Old Woman’s Song
      Old Woman’s Song (pp. 6-6)
      ANONYMOUS
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.7
    • At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients
      At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients (pp. 7-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.8
    • The Brother
      The Brother (pp. 9-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.9
    • Drinking Cold Water
      Drinking Cold Water (pp. 10-11)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.10
    • Gray Poem
      Gray Poem (pp. 12-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.11
    • The Marsh, New Year’s Day
      The Marsh, New Year’s Day (pp. 14-14)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.12
    • The Coat
      The Coat (pp. 15-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.13
  5. II
    • Living by Water
      Living by Water (pp. 19-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.14
    • The Heavy Angel
      The Heavy Angel (pp. 20-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.15
    • To Tlaloc of the Rain
      To Tlaloc of the Rain (pp. 21-21)
      ANONYMOUS
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.16
    • Home from Duck Marsh
      Home from Duck Marsh (pp. 22-22)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.17
    • Hymn to the Sacred Birds
      Hymn to the Sacred Birds (pp. 23-24)
      ANONYMOUS
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.18
    • Collecting the Animals
      Collecting the Animals (pp. 25-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.19
    • Learning to Speak
      Learning to Speak (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.20
    • Perhaps It’s as You Say
      Perhaps It’s as You Say (pp. 28-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.21
    • The Gift
      The Gift (pp. 29-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.22
  6. III
    • It Was Autumn
      It Was Autumn (pp. 33-33)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.23
    • Routes
      Routes (pp. 34-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.24
    • The Burden of Decision
      The Burden of Decision (pp. 36-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.25
    • Going
      Going (pp. 37-37)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.26
    • We Meet in the Lives of Animals
      We Meet in the Lives of Animals (pp. 38-39)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.27
    • The Fish/Lago Chapala
      The Fish/Lago Chapala (pp. 40-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.28
    • Thus He Left
      Thus He Left (pp. 42-42)
      TOCHIHUITZIN COYOLCHIUHQUI
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.29
    • Counting
      Counting (pp. 43-43)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.30
    • How to Handle It
      How to Handle It (pp. 44-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.31
    • Desire
      Desire (pp. 45-45)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.32
    • Late Hour
      Late Hour (pp. 46-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.33
  7. IV
    • In Torino
      In Torino (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.34
    • The Dinner
      The Dinner (pp. 50-50)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.35
    • Perosa Canavese
      Perosa Canavese (pp. 51-56)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.36
    • Sorting the Tools
      Sorting the Tools (pp. 57-58)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.37
    • Distance
      Distance (pp. 59-59)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.38
    • Night Letters
      Night Letters (pp. 60-64)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.39
    • Failure
      Failure (pp. 65-65)
      NATAN ZACH
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.40
    • Night
      Night (pp. 66-66)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.41
    • This World Awakes to Silence
      This World Awakes to Silence (pp. 67-68)
      DAVID VOGEL
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.42
  8. V
    • Speaking of Accidents
      Speaking of Accidents (pp. 71-72)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.43
    • On Modern Travel
      On Modern Travel (pp. 73-74)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.44
    • From Station to Station
      From Station to Station (pp. 75-75)
      DAVID VOGEL
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.45
    • Three Poems Never Written
      Three Poems Never Written (pp. 76-77)
      NATAN ZACH
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.46
    • A Short Novel
      A Short Novel (pp. 78-78)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.47
    • Poem for Two Voices
      Poem for Two Voices (pp. 79-80)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.48
  9. VI
    • First Star
      First Star (pp. 83-83)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.49
    • In the Last Days
      In the Last Days (pp. 84-84)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.50
    • Nocturnal Self-Portrait
      Nocturnal Self-Portrait (pp. 85-85)
      NATAN ZACH
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.51
    • I Dreamt
      I Dreamt (pp. 86-86)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.52
    • A Story
      A Story (pp. 87-87)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.53

      A boy fell from a tree one day, and afterward one arm was shorter than the other and dragged at an awkward angle—like a wounded wing—as if it kept in memory the accident of its origin, its difficult first flight. Thus marked, the boy gave up being a boy. He turned into a crow that croaked and flapped inside the circle of those who had remained children.

      In literature this is not uncommon. People are forever turning into something else, and vice versa. What I am saying here belongs to literature. What a crow says is in another...

    • A Portrait
      A Portrait (pp. 88-88)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.54
    • Elegiac Fragments
      Elegiac Fragments (pp. 89-91)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.55
    • Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli
      Poem Beginning with a Line from Leonardo Sinisgalli (pp. 92-92)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.56
    • Lullaby
      Lullaby (pp. 93-93)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.57
    • From the Meadow
      From the Meadow (pp. 94-94)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.58
    • The Heart
      The Heart (pp. 95-96)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.59
  10. Notes
    Notes (pp. 97-98)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.60
  11. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. 99-99)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.61
  12. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 100-100)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdp0.62