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Title:

Night walks : a bedside companion / compiled by Joyce Carol Oates.

Publisher:

Distributed by Persea Books,

Copyright Date:

c1982

Description:

xiv, 287 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature.
English literature.
Night--Literary collections.
Sleep--Literary collections.
Insomnia--Literary collections.

Other Authors:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Contents:

The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence. At night / W.S. Merwin -- City cemetery ; Reflections on Jack the Ripper / John R. Reed -- Walking to sleep / Richard Wilbur -- The scream on Fifty-seventh Street / Hortense Calisher -- Better than counting sheep / Robert Penn Warren -- From The anatomy of melancholy / Robert Burton -- IDEA : Old Mazda lamp, 50-100-150 W. / John Hollander -- Vibrations ; Tossing and turning / John Updike -- Storm still / Brock Brower -- Middle age : a nocturne / Robert Phillips -- A quilt-pattern / Randall Jarrell -- Demonology / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "The first day's night..." ; "We grow accustomed to the dark..." / Emily Dickinson -- Bridge of music, river of sand / William Goyen -- Insomnia ; A hundred nights / Maxine Kumin -- Last days ; Bats ; The night traveler / Mary Oliver -- Being alone / Ned Rorem -- On sleep / Thomas Dekker -- The sleepers ; A clear midnight / Walt Whitman -- Death mother / Frederick Morgan -- The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes -- Suddenly ; Circus ; Insomnia / Yannis Ritsos -- Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks / Wallace Stevens -- Solitude / Henry David Thoreau -- Six winter privacy poems / Robert Bly -- Pillow problems / Lewis Carroll -- Meret / Gottfried Keller -- Insomnia / Elizabeth Bishop -- You too / Michael Goldman -- Lamb of Abyssalia / Joyce Carol Oates -- Ghost-crabs / Ted Hughes -- Dreams / C.G. Young -- 12 Lines at midnight / Charles Wright -- Insomnia / Julia Randall -- The eye / Paul Bowles -- They flee from me / Thomas Wyatt -- Girl at midnight / Weldon Kees -- Insomnia / Julia Mishkin -- My day / Jean Rhys -- From Religio Medici / Thomas Browne -- On the island / Josephine Jacobsen -- Insomnia / Dana Gioia -- Going to sleep in the country / Howard Moss -- In pain / Albert Goldbarth -- Shadows ; The ship of death / D.H. Lawrence.

ISBN:

9780865380226
0865380228

LCCN:

82012582

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

HUAX887 -- Southwestern Community College Library - Creston (Creston)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)