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Author:

Fixel, Lawrence, author.

Title:

The collected poetry and prose of Lawrence Fixel / edited and with an introduction by Gerald Fleming.

Publisher:

Sixteen Rivers Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

571 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Fixel, Lawrence--Literary collections.
Fixel, Lawrence.
Prose poems, American.
Parables.
Parables.
Prose poems, American.
Literary collections.
Parables.
Prose poems.
Prose poems.
Parables.

Other Authors:

Sixteen Rivers Press, publisher.
Fleming, Gerald J., 1946- writer of introduction. writer of introduction.

Other Titles:

Works. Selections. 2020

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: "Let's Start Where We Are" / Foreword to Truth, War, and the Dream-Game -- Tracking Stations: New and Selected Parables, 1966 -- 1981 -- pt. Three The Flight/The Quest -- Flight Patterns -- Above It All -- Give Up, Give Up -- Destruction of the Temple -- The Departure/The Return -- The Refugees/The Pilgrims -- The Base Camp -- Absent Without Leave -- The Crossing -- Leaving the City -- pt. Two The Watchers/The Watched -- The Invaders -- The Situation Room -- The Retreat of the Leaders -- The Leopards/The Temple -- Trading with the Enemy -- Caesar's Thumb -- The Contest -- The Cage: The Performance -- The Actor: Farewell & Return -- The Trouble with Winds -- pt. Three The Codes/The Signals -- The Hat, The Indian, The Lizard -- The Given Day -- The Career of Hands -- A Simple, Factual Report -- Reading the Text -- The Master -- The Sacrifice -- Protective Measures -- The Shrinking City -- The Knock -- pt. Four The Myths/The Emblems -- The Fifth Room -- The Message/The Messenger -- Angel in the Freezer -- Reading Borges -- The Choice -- The Loaves/The Fishes -- The Dark Pattern -- The Return of Sadhu -- Say We Are Going -- The News from Dronesville -- The Trial of Two Cities -- More Than a Thing -- Chance Scripts: Selected Prose Poems, 1970 -- 1987 -- The Concert Hall/The Big Tent/The Pasture -- Goodbye to a Village -- Limbo -- The Book/The Mailing -- The Error Catastrophe -- The Candidate/The Canceled Child -- Framis: More or Less Himself -- The Lost Parable -- Second to the Wolf -- No Time for Gestures -- A Picture in the Voice? -- The Feathers of My Wife -- Between Worlds -- The Agony of Crevices -- One Vote for the Vulture -- A Stone Taking Notes -- How Tall Was Toulouse-Lautrec? -- Among Other Things -- Question of a Shovel -- Life & Death of a Guide -- Say He Arrives There -- The Door to Have -- The Door to Have (2) -- The Trouble with Keys -- Truth, War, and the Dream-Game -- The Place/The Name/The Child -- Structural Pursuits: Prose Poems and Parables, 1987 -- 1990 -- The Photographers -- Words Out of Reach -- Kafka's Bridge -- The Bridge to Dream/to Remember -- The Awakening -- Portrait of the Man: As Novelist -- More About Stones -- Wind, Says the Voice -- The Jugglers -- The Poet Digs a Hole -- The Cheering Section -- Who Waits for Whom? -- The Universal Delivery Service -- The Fourth Step -- Next Is This -- Afterword to Truth, War, and the Dream-Game -- From The Scale of Silence: Parables (1970) -- The Garden -- The Prisoner -- The Examination -- The Circus/The Zoo -- The Travel Agent -- The Portrait -- From The Edge of Something (1977) -- The Edge of Something -- Notes on Beato Angelico -- The House/The Doors -- The Graduate -- The Man Who Was -- Afterword to The Edge of Something -- Through Deserts of Snow (1975) -- The Book of Glimmers (1979) -- For the Reader -- Glimmers One: Unfinished Circumstance -- Glimmers Two: Weights/Measures/Affections -- Glimmers Three: Mining Shadows -- Notes and Further Work-Points to The Book of Glimmers -- Afterword to The Book of Glimmers -- From Unlawful Assembly: A Gathering of Poems, 1940 -- 1990 (1994) -- Letter to a Friend, 1941 -- In That Which Passes -- Looking Backward -- Looking Toward -- Landing in Idaho -- Riding the Bus in Sicily -- Italy, 1978 -- On the Death of Aldo Moro (Rome, May 9, 1978) -- Year of the Bloodhound -- Song for the Ending of the Year -- Studying the Season -- Speech to the Sentries -- News the Body Brings -- Beginning -- Breathing Lessons -- Coming to This Place -- Doctor, Doctor -- Digging In -- On a Recent Suicide (G.A., June 1973) -- Figure into Form -- Rising -- Sixty She Says -- Left Hand/Right Hand -- Water, Sky, and Unmarked Time -- Northpoint -- As Helmsman -- Elsewhere Then It Happens -- Encounters on the River -- Entering Waters -- Evolution -- By God and by Guess -- The Color of the Sky -- Present Shores -- Slipping Away -- The Stranger: As Balloonist -- Echoes and Entrances -- The Identity of an Hour -- Take This City Now -- All at Once -- City Between the Lines -- Dreaming Gardens -- The Fool Not Yet Complete -- The Survivors: A Legend -- Return to the Air -- Echoes and Entrances -- Beyond the Name and Number -- What the Wastebasket Tells -- Notes on a Doppelganger -- Guesswork -- Equations -- Born Unattended -- The Apex Travel Service -- Therefore -- Unsaying -- The Unnamed -- Something That the Name Gathers -- Afterword to Unlawful Assembly: A Time to Gather -- Among the Missing -- Another Time, Another Voyage -- Lost Subjects/Found Objects (1998) -- Foreword to Lost Subjects/Found Objects -- pt. One Rope Song -- Dreaming the Figure -- Morning With/Without Love -- The Sleep, the Waking -- Chopin in Alaska -- Ghost Farm -- The Torturer's Horse -- pt. Two Assault on the White Frame House -- Schliemann at Mycenae -- pt. Three One of a Kind -- Lines in Praise of an American Novelist -- George Oppen: 1908 -- 1984 -- An Afternoon in Athens -- Seekers Awake -- Conversations About a City -- From All This Is Here (2003) -- Ritual of Return -- The One-Sided Conversation -- Light When It Moves -- Directed by a Clown, the Cats Perform -- Credo -- In Distaste -- Meditation on a Stuffed Owl -- Time to Destroy/to Discover (1972) -- Uncollected Works -- The Conspirators -- See It, Believe It, and It Happens -- Goodbye Home. Hello Somewhere -- The Lecture -- Making the Claim -- Concentric Propositions -- The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder -- In the Land of Un. In the Land of Dis -- A Horse Called Burden, A Horse Called Venture -- Soundings -- The Shield: An Inheritance -- The Listener -- Reflections on a Drowned City -- A Little Kitchen Music -- The Arms/The Wings -- Here as It Happens -- Arrow Light. Target Eyes -- On the Recent Unpleasantness at Lake College -- Along These Ways -- Reactionary Poem -- Preparing to Leave -- Words on Lawrence Fixel -- Lawrence Fixel's "Flight Patterns" / Peter Money. Measures & Insistencies: Days with Lawrence Fixel / Christina Fisher -- Lawrence Fixel: Master of the Prose Poem / David Lazar -- On Lawrence Fixel's Truth, War, and the Dream-Game / Donald L. Soucy -- To begin / Edward Mycue -- Parable, Parabola, Possible: On Lawrence Fixel / Sharon Coleman -- "Let's Start Where We Are" / Peter Money.

ISBN:

1939639239
9781939639233
1939639247
9781939639240

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1144105701

LCCN:

2019956065

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)