Long regarded as one of the best narrative and dramatic poets at work in the United States, David Mason has also been regularly producing soulful lyrics. In the ten years since the publication of his last collection of shorter poems, Mason has...
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Long regarded as one of the best narrative and dramatic poets at work in the United States, David Mason has also been regularly producing soulful lyrics. In the ten years since the publication of his last collection of shorter poems, Mason has refined his art in the fires of wrenching personal change. The result is an almost entirely new poetic voice and his most rigorous and memorable book to date. Emotionally resonant and elegant in phrasing, the poems of Sea Salt, which have appeared in publications such as Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Poetry, are a powerful evocation of crisis and change. These “poems of a decade" demonstrate that the author of Ludlow: A Verse Novel and The Scarlet Libretto is also a lyric poet at the top of his game.
Cover; A Momentary Glory; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another; For William Carlos Williams; Reznikoff; Oppen; "It may have been . . ."; "When I asked Wallace Stevens . . ."; The People's Poet; On a Rejection Note from Paul Muldoon; Homage; Lines (1); Now I Write; On My Book; Writing; "I wrote two poems in my sleep . . ."; The Poem; During the Second World War; Memorial Day; An American Life; Discourse on Education; Foggia, Italy; The Old War; Song ; The Transaction; Alexandra; Lydia; Cynthia; King Kong's Wong
Nightpiece"Drear, bleared and boiled . . ."; A Story; Brief Lives; Brooklyn; To the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Lines (2); 7th Avenue irt; Times Square; In the City; Praise For; The Keys; Key West; Florida; Real Estate; Deer; Suburban Note; Rockport; Paris; In Prague; Questions; Green; Mozart Poem; World; In the Beginning ; Dan, Age 10, Explains; Bush Poem; Hot Summer; "A bird in a tree . . ."; Birds; "Like a boy again . . ."; Remembering; Friday; Book Group; "I am in a warm room . . ."; The Distance; Rabbi Nachman's Parable; For Adin; Dejection; The Mother of Invention; Planning; Honestly
"Where was the wisdom . . ."Drums; In Argument; The Old Jew; Lines (3); Departures; 2007; The Office; In the Office; Hospital Poem; Self-Pity; Lines (4); Luxury of Time ; "The piece of myself . . ."; Pardoned; City Poem; Poetics; For Galen; Bright Winter; A Momentary Glory; Psalm ; ABOUT THE EDITOR
The passionate testament of a brilliant poet in the face of age, illness, and mortality
