James Agee: Selected Poems (American Poets Project #27)
by Agee, James; Hudgins, AndrewEdition: Reprint
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-02
Publisher(s): Library of America
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Summary
"Steeped in the metaphysics and music of Elizabethan verse, alert to the nuances of the American vernacular, Agee's poetry is eloquent and wide-ranging. It exhibits, writes Andrew Hudgins, "a variety that we expect from the protean mind that excelled in so many different kinds of writing." Agee's passionate exploration of religious themes - "his struggle," in Hudgins' words, "to comprehend his place in God's vision" - is especially evident in the sequence of 25 sonnets that some consider his most notable verse creation, poems that take us into the heart of his most abiding concerns."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
Andrew Hudgins, editor, is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at The Ohio State University. His volumes of poetry include Ecstatic in the Poison (2003); Babylon in a Jar (1998); The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood (1994); The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991), a finalist for the National Book Award; After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988), which received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil (1997).
Table of Contents
| Permit Me Voyage | |
| Lyrics | p. 1 |
| A Song | p. 3 |
| Description of Elysium | p. 4 |
| The Happy Hen | p. 6 |
| Dedication | p. 7 |
| Ann Garner | p. 16 |
| A Chorale | p. 29 |
| Epithalamium | p. 31 |
| Sonnets | p. 40 |
| Permit Me Voyage | p. 53 |
| Other Poems | |
| Apotheosis | p. 55 |
| The Storm | p. 55 |
| The Shadow | p. 56 |
| A Lovers' Dialogue | p. 57 |
| The Rendezvous | p. 58 |
| Good Friday | p. 58 |
| Resume | p. 59 |
| Sonnet ("Death never swoops us round with sudden black") | p. 60 |
| Two Sonnets | p. 61 |
| Description of Elysium | p. 62 |
| The Truce | p. 63 |
| Resolution | p. 65 |
| A Poem of Poets | p. 65 |
| A Parable of Doors | p. 67 |
| Delinquent | p. 68 |
| Home Again Blues | p. 69 |
| The Passionate Poet to His Love | p. 69 |
| "When I was small delight and fear" | p. 70 |
| Lyrics | p. 71 |
| Class Ode, 1932 | p. 72 |
| "As you came through the far land" | p. 73 |
| Theme with Variations | p. 76 |
| Sonnet ("Now it is competent, our cornmon heart") | p. 79 |
| Sonnet ("Two years have passed, and made a perfect wheel") | p. 80 |
| "Him we killed and laid alone" | p. 81 |
| "A low pit and sink of shade" | p. 81 |
| "When Eve first saw the glittering day" | p. 82 |
| A Poem for Brahms' Death-Bed | p. 83 |
| Period Pieces from the Mid-Thirties | p. 84 |
| Three Cabaret Songs | p. 88 |
| "You green in the young day" | p. 91 |
| "Now on the stunned floor of darkness" | p. 92 |
| A Song | p. 93 |
| Two Songs on the Economy of Abundance | p. 93 |
| "Now I lay me down beside" | p. 94 |
| Lyric | p. 94 |
| from John Carter | p. 95 |
| In Memory of My Father | p. 109 |
| Lyrics | p. 111 |
| Sunday: Outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee | p. 117 |
| Sun Our Father | p. 118 |
| Summer Evening | p. 119 |
| Lyric | p. 120 |
| "As in a woodland rarely" | p. 120 |
| To Walker Evans | p. 122 |
| On the Word Asleep | p. 123 |
| On the Word Kingdom | p. 124 |
| "O my poor country I have so much hated" | p. 125 |
| Dear Father | p. 125 |
| "I walked into a wasted place" | p. 128 |
| "We soldiers of all nations who lie killed" | p. 129 |
| November 1945 | p. 129 |
| Christmas 1945 | p. 131 |
| "How many little children sleep" | p. 132 |
| Sonnets | p. 132 |
| "I bore my bearer on a wasted mountain" | p. 133 |
| "O I begin to know: neither could live" | p. 134 |
| "Just this: from now on, to go on foot" | p. 134 |
| A Lullaby | p. 135 |
| Lines Suggested by a Tennessee Song | p. 136 |
| Exiit Diluculo | p. 142 |
| Draft Lyrics for Candide | p. 143 |
| Biograpbical Note | p. 163 |
| Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 163 |
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