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title	:	Collected Poems, 1936-1976
author	:	Francis, Robert.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870235109
print isbn13	:	9780870235108
ebook isbn13	:	9780585281476
language	:	English
subject	American poetry.
publication date	:	1985
lcc	:	PS3511.R237A6 1985eb
ddc	:	811/.5/2
subject	:	American poetry.

Page iii Robert Francis Collected Poems 1936-1976 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1936, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, by Robert Francis All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 768753 ISBN 0870235109 Printed in the United States of America Second paperback printing Designed by Mary Mendell Cataloging in Publication data appears on the last printed page of the book. "Blue Cornucopia," "Delicate the Toad," "Gold,'' "The Mountain," and "Suspension" first appeared in The New-England Galaxy (Old Sturbridge Village, Inc.) "Come Out into the Sun," "Here by the Sea," and "Superior Vantage" first appeared in The New Yorker. Section five of this book is a republication of The Orb Weaver, first published by Wesleyan University Press in 1960 Woodcuts by Wang Hui-Ming

Page v W H-M For him my birches Snow-bent are bamboo And I among them An old Chinese poet One of the Tang. Ah He too would be a bird Uncaged a boat untied.

Page vii Preface Dear Reader (and every reader or potential reader is dear to a poet), before you proceed further may I say a word? The first poems you will encounter, if you do proceed, were published forty years ago and most of them written some years earlier. If they seem excessively quiet, know that they were written by a serious young man whose most constant pleasure was a silent dialogue he carried on with himself, a prolonged solitary brooding. As he grew older, book by book, he grew bolder and livelier, as you can see for yourself. Indeed, as he grew older his poems grew younger until, toward the end of this collection, some poems are positively frisky. It may amuse you to follow his constant coming out of himself, like a mantis in its successive moultings. Only in its final moult does the mantis achieve its wings, and here our analogy breaks down, for this poet, like all poets, does a little flying all along the way. If you choose to follow him all the way, you can speed up the journey by reading one poem every ten pages or so. Or perhaps, better still, you might open the book at random, as during the Middle Ages Virgil used to be opened at random, and you may, just possibly, happen upon an oracle.

Page ix Contents Preface Stand with Me Here A Broken View 3 Identity 4 Cloud in Woodcut 4 Firewarden on Kearsage 5 Hay Heaviness 5 Four Women 6 Lady of the Flowers 7 Bronze 7 Rana 7 Onion Fields 8 The Outgrown Garden 8 Hay 9 Meeting 10

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