Full Description
Richard Outram, long celebrated as a poet's poet, has increasingly found an audience among poets and layreaders alike. The Essential Richard Outram is an affordable, pocket-sized selection that will introduce readers to a variety of Outram's registers and personae.
Contents
Turns and Other Poems (1975)Story Adam in the Very Act of Love The Promise of Light (1979)Petition to Eros Shiner Epitaph for an Angler Parting at Evening Night Vision Man in Love (1985) Round of Life Vernal Pond Gale Salamander Hiram and Jenny (1988)Hiram and Jenny Hiram Beachcombing Hiram's Rope Error Gleeman Crux Hiram on the Night Shore Mogul Recollected (1993)Instruction Rogue Legend Mogul and Penobscot Mermaids Benedict Abroad (1998)Routine Melodrama Moonlighting Inscape Dove Legend & Other Poems (2001)Late Love Poem Yacketty Sax Drama Ever Meet Stance at the Eastern Gap Tower Across the Water Stage Crew Barbed Wire Jonah as Boy Seaman The Flight out of Egypt South of North: Images of Canada (posthumously published, 2007)Port Hope Garden Ms Cassie (privately published, 2000)Ms Cassie & Apollo Ms Cassie Reads the Young Matelot's Horny Palm Ms Cassie by Tarnished Water Ms Cassie & Last Word Ms Cassie at Play Ms Cassie in Bed Lightfall (privately published, 2001)Morning Star Amanda Immortal The Beauty of Lear's Daughters Torture Brief Immortals (privately published, 2003)Fare Well previously uncollected:Midsummer Lovers Remark of a Childless Man A Walk Before Bed Late Night
