A Momentary Glory - Harvey Shapiro Wesleyan Poetry Series

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      A Momentary Glory

       WESLEYAN POETRY

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       ALSO BY HARVEY SHAPIRO

      The Eye, 1953

      Mountain, Fire, Thornbush, 1961

      Battle Report, 1966

      This World, 1971

      Lauds & Nightsounds, 1978

      The Light Holds, 1984

      National Cold Storage Company, 1988

      A Day’s Portion, 1994

      Selected Poems, 1997

      How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems, 2001

      Poets of World War II (editor), 2003

      The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems, 2006

       HARVEY SHAPIRO

      A Momentary Glory

       LAST POEMS

      Edited by

      Norman Finkelstein

       WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

       MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

       WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2014 Estate of Harvey Shapiro

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed and typeset in Albertina and

      Calluna Sans by Eric M. Brooks

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

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       This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Shapiro, Harvey, 1924–2013.

      [Poems. Selections]

      A momentary glory: last poems / Harvey Shapiro;

      edited by Norman Finkelstein.

      pages; cm. — (Wesleyan poetry series)

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7489-3 (cloth: alk. paper) —

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7495-4 (ebook)

      I. Finkelstein, Norman, 1954– II. Title.

      PS3537.H264A62014

      811'.52 — dc232014003076

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover photograph: An empty cobblestone street in DUMBO leads to the Brooklyn Bridge in vertical perspective, © Greg Kushmerek. Shutterstock image 29093497.

       CONTENTS

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      Acknowledgments ix

      Editor’s Introduction xi

      The Old Man Has One Thought and Then Another 1

      For William Carlos Williams 4

      Reznikoff 5

      Oppen 6

      “It may have been …” 7

      “When I asked Wallace Stevens …” 8

      The People’s Poet 9

      On a Rejection Note from Paul Muldoon 10

      Homage 11

      Lines (1) 12

      Now I Write 13

      On My Book 14

      Writing 15

      “I wrote two poems in my sleep …” 16

      The Poem 17

      During the Second World War 18

      Memorial Day 19

      An American Life 20

      Discourse on Education 21

      Foggia, Italy 22

      The Old War 23

      Song 25

      The Transaction 26

      Alexandra 27

      Lydia 28

      Cynthia 29

      King Kong’s Wong 30

      Nightpiece 31

      “Drear, bleared and boiled …” 32

      A Story 33

      Brief Lives 34

      Brooklyn 35

      To the Brooklyn Academy of Music 36

      Lines (2) 37

      7th Avenue IRT 38

      Times Square 39

      In the City 40

      Praise For 41

      The Keys 42

      Key West 43

      Florida 44

      Real Estate 45

      Deer 46

      Suburban Note 47

      Rockport 48

      Paris 49

      In Prague 50

      Questions 51

      Green 52

      Mozart Poem 53

      World 54

      In the Beginning 55

      Dan, Age 10, Explains 56

      Bush Poem 57

      Hot Summer 58

      “A bird in a tree …” 59

      Birds 60

      “Like a boy again …” 61

      Remembering 62

      Friday 63

      Book Group 64

      “I am in a warm room …” 65

      The Distance 66

      Rabbi Nachman’s Parable 67

      For Adin 68

      Dejection 69

      The Mother of Invention 70

      Planning 71

      Honestly 72

      “Where was the wisdom …” 73

      Drums 74

      In Argument 75

      The Old Jew 76

      Lines (3) 77

      Departures

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