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title	:	Body Blows : Poems New and Selected
author	:	Bagg, Robert.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087023630X
print isbn13	:	9780870236303
ebook isbn13	:	9780585207452
language	:	English
subject	American poetry.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	PS3503.A353B63 1988eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	American poetry.

Page iii Body Blows Poems New and Selected Robert Bagg The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1988

Page iv Copyright 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1985, 1986, 1988 by Robert Bagg All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 87-35720 ISBN 0-87023-630-X (cloth); 631-8 (paper) Designed by Edith Kearney Set in Linoterm Bodoni Book Printed by Cushing-Malloy, Inc. and bound by John H. Dekker & Sons Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bagg, Robert. Body blows. I. Title. PS3503.A353B63 1988 811'.54 87-35720 ISBN 0-87023-630-X (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-631-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data are available

Page v To the first readers of these poems

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The following poems, often in slightly different form, have been previously published in earlier collections. In Madonna of the Cello (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961): Soft Answers, Paolo and Francesca, Ronald Wyn, The Risen Eyelid, Death at Pocono Lake Preserve, The Sewer Dare, The Tandem Ride, Madonna of the Cello. In The Scrawny Sonnets (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973): Je demande la vi e ternelle, The Defense of the West, Sappho, The Eighteenth Book, Playing the Wheel in Juan, The Scrawny Sonnets, Trompe l'me, Epidauros. In The Worst Kiss (Chester, Mass.: Hollow Spring Press, 1985): The Worst Kiss, Calligraphy, White Volks, My Father Plays the 17th, Muscongus Bay Sloop, Hands, Rome 1980. In Special Occasions (Chester, Mass.: Hollow Spring Press, 1986): A Toast for Ashley and Melissa, Be Good (entitled To Watch One Day), Metaphor, Body Blows, White Shoulders.

Page viii AUTHOR'S NOTE The poems here collected were written over the past thirty-one years. Several have been substantially revised for this volume and most have undergone some minor changes. I should like to thank the following institutions that provided support while I was at work over the years on these poems: Amherst College, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the University of Massachusetts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Academy in Rome. I have benefited from comments and suggestions on these poems generously given by Thomas Gould, James Scully, Donald Junkins, Karla Alwes, Richard Todd, and Sally Bagg. Several poems incorporate quotations or paraphrases of prose or poetry by other writers. Most of these will be apparent, but I will note that the opening lines of "Trompe l'me" are from James Merrill's novel The Seraglio. I paraphrase Scott Fitzgerald's own account of his artistic aims in "The Living Sweetness." "Sappho" is a free translation of her poem printed as 94 by Lobel and Page.

Page ix CONTENTS I Sappho 3 Je demande la vie ternelle 4 Playing the Wheel in Juan 6 Soft Answers 7 The Eighteenth Book 8 The Risen Eyelid 9 Paolo and Francesca 10 Ronald Wyn 12 II Death at Pocono Lake Preserve 17 The Sewer Dare 20 The Tandem Ride 25 Madonna of the Cello 41 The Scrawny Sonnets Staying 44 Damp Cashmere 45 Quiet 46 Divine Wind 47 Black Coffee 48

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