No Word of Farewell : Selected Poems, 1970-2000

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Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
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Summary

R. S. Gwynn is America's greatest poetry satirist. This book collects the finest poems from the author's previous five collections -- all printed in limited editions, and now long out of print. A leading figure in the renaissance of form and narrative in American poetry, Gwynn is a master of song and storytelling. A rare, true wit.

Author Biography

R. S. Gwynn is the author of five collections of poetry and has edited several books. He teaches at Lamar University in Beaumont. Texas

Table of Contents

Introduction 11(6)
Dana Gioia
If My Song: New Poems
1969
17(1)
My Agent Says
18(2)
1-800
20(2)
Black Helicopters
22(1)
At Rose's Range
23(1)
Just Folks
24(1)
The Classroom at the Mall
25(3)
Body Bags
28(3)
West Palm
31(3)
Audenesque: For the Late Returns
34(2)
Local Initiative
36(1)
The Ballad of Burton and Bobby and Bill
37(3)
Rhapsode
40(2)
Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry
42(2)
The Easiest Room in Hell
44(1)
Ballade of the Yale Younger Poets of Yesteryear
45(1)
Two Villanelles
46(2)
Lies
48(1)
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins
49(2)
Chang Eng
51(1)
Two Portraits
52(2)
A Toast from Cana
54(1)
Human Nature
55(2)
Coastal Freeze
57(1)
Make Us an Offer
58(1)
The Dream Again
59(2)
Randolph Field, 1938
61(2)
A Box of Ashes
63(1)
The Great Fear
64(1)
Cleante to Elmire
65(4)
At the Center
69(1)
Bone Scan
70(1)
The Dark Place
71(1)
Before Prostate Surgery
72(1)
Train for Ill: A Ballad
73(3)
Release
76(3)
More Light: Translations, Parodies, Verse
Epitaph
79(1)
Francois Villon
The Debate of Body and Heart
80(2)
Francois Villon
Sonnet against Racine's Phedre
82(1)
Anonymous
The Slave Ship
83(6)
Heinrich Heine
Windows
89(2)
Stephane Mallarme
Three Sonnets from Moabit Prison
91(3)
Albrecht Haushofer
The Bard of Via Voice
94(2)
Versions for the Millennium
96(3)
The Professor's Lot
99(2)
Yuppigrams: Snapshots from the 80s
101(1)
Squibs
102(1)
Why They Love Us
103(4)
From The Narcissiad
The Education of Narcissus
107(5)
Immortal Combat
112(6)
The Triumph of Narcissus
118(9)
The Drive-In
Ars Poetica
127(1)
Among Philistines
128(3)
Monsieur Magus
131(1)
Letter from Carthage
132(1)
Iago to His Torturers
133(1)
Horatio's Philosophy
134(2)
Also to the Tower
136(4)
B. 1885; D. 1980
140(1)
The Decline of the West
141(2)
1916
143(4)
A Short History of the New South
147(2)
Stranded in the Jungle
149(2)
Laird of the Maze
151(2)
Anacreonitic
153(2)
Scenes from the Playroom
155(1)
In Place of an Elegy
156(1)
Mimosa
157(3)
The Drive-In
160(2)
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
162(1)
Untitled
163(1)
Bearing & Distance
164(1)
The Simplification
165(1)
The Denouement
166(1)
Acknowledgements 167

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