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  • Holbrook, Susan. Good Egg Bad Seed. Vancouver: Nomados, 2004. canlit pam 03559 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
  • --. Joy is so Exhausting. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009. PS8565 .O486 J69 2009 Robarts Library
  • --. misled. Red Deer: Red Deer Press, 1999. PS8565 .O486 M57 1999 Robarts Library
  • --, and Thomas Dilworth, ed. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Sheldon Zitner taught English literature at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, Grinnell College in Iowa, and the University of Toronto (1969-ca. 1990).

  • Beaumont, Francis. The Knight of the Burning Pestle.. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner.
    Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984.
  • Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • Spenser, Edmund. The Mutabilitie Cantos. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner. London: Nelson, 1968.
  • Zitner, Sheldon P. The Asparagus Feast. Montreal and Kingston:
    McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. PS8599 .I78 A76 1999 Robarts Library
  • --. Before We had Words. Montreal and Kingston:
    McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
  • --. The Hunt on the Lagoon. Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane, 2005. PS8599 .I78 H85 2005 Robarts Library
  • --. Missing Persons. Toronto: Junction Books, 2003. PS 8599 .I67 M57 Trinity College
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  • Mellini, Peter. "Seaman, Sir Owen, baronet (1861–1936)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006.
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Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891. He received a James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to study at the University of Berlin. However, Brennan returned to Sydney in 1894 without the doctorate, due to both his attraction to the Berlin intellectual society and an affair with Anna Werth, his landlady’s daughter. In 1897 he married Anna Werth in Sydney, and they had four children. The marriage faltered after 1907, and Brennan became a well-known presence in Sydney’s café society. Brennan was heavily influenced by European Symbolist poetry, and in 1913 he published Poems, which has remained his most well-known work. In 1920 Brennan was appointed professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He had long wanted this post, but the wait may have been due to his alcoholism and the eroticism in his 1897 poetry collection. He was dismissed by the University Senate in 1925 due to the controversy over his divorce and subsequent affair with Violet Singer. In his last years Brennan was often depressed as a result of Singer’s death in 1925; he also lived in poverty, helped by occasional teaching opportunities, friends and relatives. Brennan died in 1932.

  • Clark, Axel, "Brennan, Christopher John (1870-1932)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. VII. Melbourne University Press, 1979. 397-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070405b.htm
  • Brennan, Christopher. XXI poems: MDCCCXCIII-MDCCCXCVII: towards the Source.. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
  • --. Poems: 1913, Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914. See Australian Poets eTexts Project, The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
  • --. A Chant of Doom: and other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Digital facsimile by the University of Sydney Library, 1999. See http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
  • --. The Burden of Tyre. Sydney: Harry F. Chaplin, 1953.
  • --. The Verse of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.
  • --. The Prose of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
  • --. Christopher Brennan. Ed. Terry Sturm. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

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and The Academy of America Poets

 

  • Diamonds
  • Noyta CCCP
  • Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • The Great Order of the Universe

All Christian Bök's works are in copyright. Permission must be obtained from his publishers before reproducing his writings.

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Carol's Shield's works include

 

    Poetry
  • Others. Ottawa: Borealis, 1972.
  • Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis, 1974.
  • Coming to Canada. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992.

Novels

  • Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
  • The Box Garden. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
  • Happenstance. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980.
  • A Fairly Conventional Woman. MacMillan, 1982.
  • Various Miracles. Stoddart, 1985. (short stories)
  • Swann: A Mystery. Stoddart, 1987.
  • The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989. (short stories)
  • A Celibate Season. Carol Shields and Blanche Howard. Coteau, 1991.
  • Republic of Love. Random House, 1992.
  • The Stone Diaries. Random House, 1993.
  • Larry's Party. Random House, 1997.
  • Dressing Up For The Carnival. Random House, 2000. (short stories)
  • Unless. 2002.
  • Collected Stories. Random House, 2003. (short stories)

 

    Criticism and Biography
  • Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976.
  • Jane Austen. Penguin/Viking, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads: What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson. Random House, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson,. Random House, 2003.

 

    Plays
  • Departures and Arrivals. Blizzard, 1990.
  • Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families. Carol Shields and Catherine Shields. Blizzard, 1993.
  • Anniversary. Carol Shields and Dave Williamson. Blizzard, 1998.
  • Thirteen Hands and Other Plays. Vintage, 2001.
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  • Once in the 40's
  • With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • A Family Turn
  • A Human Condition
  • A Message from the Wanderer
  • A Posy
  • A Survey
  • A Tentative Welcome to Readers
  • Accountability
  • Across Kansas
  • After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
  • After Plotinus
  • An Introduction to Literature
  • An Oregon Message
  • Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
  • As Pippa Lilted
  • At Earle Birney's School
  • At the Bomb Testing Site
  • At the Old Place
  • At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
  • Augustine
  • Bess
  • Bi-Focal
  • Boom Town
  • Brother
  • By the Escalator
  • Chickens the Weasel Killed
  • Coming Back
  • Communion at Lunch
  • Even Now
  • Faint Message
  • Following
  • Footnote
  • Found in a Storm
  • Gasoline
  • Growing Up: Mother
  • How I Escaped
  • Humanities Lecture
  • In a Time of Need
  • In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light
  • In Fog
  • In Fur
  • In Medias Res
  • In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
  • In Sublette's Barn
  • In the Deep Channel
  • Juke Joint
  • Learning a Word While Climbing
  • Lines To Stop Talking By
  • Looking Across the River
  • Meditation
  • Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
  • Near
  • Noticing
  • Oak
  • On an Island in the San Juans
  • On Penitencia Creek
  • On Winter Ridge
  • One Day in August
  • One Home
  • One of the Fathers
  • Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
  • Peace Walk
  • Portrait of a Refugee Musician
  • Presenting These Pieces
  • Priest Lake
  • Reaching Out To Turn On a Light
  • Report to Crazy Horse
  • Resolutions
  • Return to Single-Shot
  • Sayings from the Northern Ice
  • Sending These Messages
  • Shepherd
  • Stories To Live in the World With
  • Subsistence
  • Sunday Avenue
  • Super Market
  • That Weather
  • The Bravery of Love
  • The Collector
  • The Day I Got the Good Idea
  • The Day Millicent Found the World
  • The Day You Are Reading This
  • The Farm on the Great Plains
  • The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
  • The Guitar by the Chair
  • The Magic Mountain
  • The Move to California
  • The Museum at Tillamook
  • The Rescued Year
  • The Thought Machine
  • The Well Rising
  • Things We Did That Meant Something
  • Third Street
  • This Room When Winter Comes
  • This Town: Winter Morning
  • Thought, the Pacifist
  • Traveling through the Dark
  • Twelve Threads
  • Two Evenings
  • Uncle Bill Visits
  • Visions
  • Vocation
  • Walking Away an Undeclared War
  • Walking West
  • Watching Her Go
  • Watching the Jet Planes Dive
  • Weather Report
  • What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
  • With Neighbors One Afternoon
  • Your Life

     

      • Garrison, Steve. "William Stafford". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 292-299.
      • Stafford, William. West of Your City. Los Gatos, CA:Talisman Press, 1960.
      • --. Traveling through the Dark. New York, NY: Harper, 1962.
      • --. The Rescued Year. New York, NY: Harper, 1966. PS3537 .T143 R4 Robarts Library.
      • --. Eleven Untitled Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968.
      • --. Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
      • --. Allegiances. New York, NY: Harper, 1970. PS3537 .T143 A8 Robarts Library.
      • --. Temporary Facts. Athens, OH: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
      • --. In the Clock of Reason. Victoria, BC: Soft Press, 1973. PS3537 .T143 I5 Robarts Library.
      • --. Someday, Maybe. New York, NY: Harper, 1973. PS3537 .T143 S6 1973 Robarts Library.
      • --. Going Places: Poems. Reno, NV: West Coast Poetry Review, 1974. PS3537 .T143 G72 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
      • -- (With son, Kim Robert Stafford). Braided Apart. Lewiston, ID: Confluence, 1976.
      • --. The Design on the Oriole. Mt. Horeb, WI: Night Heron Press, 1977.
      • --. Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1977. PS3537 .T143 S7 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
      • --. Tuft by Puff. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1978.
      • --. Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980. PS3537 .T143 T44 1980 Robarts Library.
      • --. Sometimes Like A Legend: Puget Sound Poetry. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1981
      • .

      • --. A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1982. PS3537 .T143 G5 1982 Robarts Library.
      • --. Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982. Edited by Thom Tammaro. Daleville, IN: Barnwood, 1983. PS3537 .T143 R6 1983 Robarts Library.
      • --. Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions, 1968-1981. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1983.
      • --. Listening Deep: Poems. Great Barrington, MA: Penmaen Press, 1984.
      • --. An Oregon Message. New York, NY: Harper, 1987. PS3537 .T143 07 1987 Robarts Library.
      • --. Passwords: Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1991. PS3537 .T143 P34 1991 Robarts Library.
      • --. My Name Is William Tell. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1992.
      • --. Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems. Edited by Jerry Watson and Linda Obbink. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
      • --. The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford. Edited by Robert Bly. New York, NY: Harper, 1994. PS3537 .T143 A6 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Methow River Poems. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1995.
      • --. Even in Quiet Places: Poems. Afterword By Kim Stafford. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1996. PS3537 .T143 E93 1996 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. PS3537 .T143 W37 1998 Robarts Library.
Index to poems
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For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

 

  • Birdcall
  • Demeter to Persephone
  • Exile
  • Insomnia
  • psalm

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • A Clearing by a Stream
  • A Young Woman, A Tree
  • After the Shipwreck
  • Anxiety About Dying
  • April
  • Boil
  • Contest
  • Daffodils
  • Encountering the Dead
  • Fisherman
  • Helium
  • I Can't Speak
  • In Every Life
  • In the Dust
  • Matisse, Too
  • Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth
  • Metaphor
  • Moth in April
  • Mother/Child: Coda
  • Nude Descending
  • Poem Beginning with a Line by Dickinson
  • Saturday Night
  • Sex
  • Single Woman Speaking
  • Soften and Melt
  • Song
  • Sonnet. To Tell the Truth
  • Stream
  • Taking the Shuttle with Franz
  • The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
  • The Change
  • The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
  • The End of the Line
  • The History of America
  • The Leaf Pile
  • The Orange Cat
  • The Window, at the Moment of Flame
  • The Woman Who Ran Away
  • Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes
  • What I Want

     

      • Williams, Amy. "Alicia Ostriker". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets Since World War II, Third Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by R. S. Gwynn, Lamar University. The Gale Group, 1992. pp. 239-242.
      • Ostriker, Alicia. Songs. New York, NY: Holt, 1969. PS3565 .S83 S6 Robarts Library.
      • --.Once More Out of Darkness, and Other Poems. New York, NY: Smith/Horizon Press, 1971; enlarged edition, Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Poets Cooperative, 1974.
      • --.A Dream of Springtime. New York, NY: Smith/Horizon Press, 1979.
      • --.The Mother/Child Papers. Santa Monica, CA: Momentum, 1980. PS3565 .S83 M6 2009 Robarts Library.
      • --.A Woman under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. PS3565 .S83 W6 Robarts Library.
      • --.The Imaginary Lover. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. PS3565 .S83 I5 1986 Robarts Library.
      • --.Green Age. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. PS3565 .S83 G7 1989 Robarts Library.
      • --.The Crack in Everything. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. PS3565 .S83 C7 1996X Robarts Library.
      • --.The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. PS3565 .S83 L58 1998X Robarts Library.
      • --.The Volcano Sequence. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. PS3565 .S83 V64 2002 Robarts Library.
      • --.No Heaven. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. PS3565 .S83 N6 2005 Robarts Library.
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  • One Train May Hide Another
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • The Study of Happiness

and The Poetry Foundation

  • A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead
  • Bel Canto
  • Down at the Docks
  • Fresh Air
  • From Seine
  • From The Duplications
  • Gigue
  • In Love with You
  • Ladies for Dinner, Saipan
  • Locks
  • Meeting You at the Piers
  • On Beauty
  • On the Great Atlantic Rainway
  • Permanently
  • Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
  • Pregnancy
  • Schoolyard in April
  • Sleeping with Women
  • Taking a Walk with You
  • Talking to Patrizia
  • Thank You
  • Thanksgiving
  • The Art of Poetry
  • The Brassiere Factory
  • The Circus
  • The History of Jazz
  • The Horse
  • The Magic of Numbers
  • The Trip from California
  • To Life
  • To My Father's Business
  • To My Heart As I Go Along
  • To My Old Poems
  • To Some Buckets
  • To Testosterone
  • To the United States Army
  • To You
  • What People Say About Paris
  • You Know All This
  • You Were Wearing

      • Adams, Michael. "Kenneth Koch". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 412-416.
      • Koch, Kenneth. Poems. New York, NY: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953.
      • --. Ko; or, A Season on Earth. New York, NY: Grove, 1959. PS3521 .O27 K6 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
      • --. Permanently. New York, NY: Tiber Press, 1960.
      • --. Thank You and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1962. PS3521 .O27 T48 Robarts Library.
      • --. Poems from 1952 and 1953. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. PS3521 .O27 P63 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems. New York, NY: Grove, 1969. PS3521 .O27 P5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. PS3521 .O27 W5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Sleeping with Women. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. pam 01842 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
      • --. The Art of Love. New York, NY: Random House, 1975. PS3521 .O27 A9 1975 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Duplications. New York, NY: Random House, 1977.
      • --. The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951. New York, NY: Random House, 1979. PS3521 .O27 B8 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
      • --. Days and Nights. New York, NY: Random House, 1982. PS3521 .O27 D3 1982 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems, 1950-1982. New York, NY: Random House, 1985. PS3521 .O27 S4 1985 Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Edge. New York, NY: Viking, 1986. PS3521 .O27 O49 2007X Robarts Library.
      • --. Seasons on Earth. New York, NY: Penguin, 1987. PS3521 .O27 S38 1987 Robarts Library.
      • --. Selected Poems. Manchester, England: Carcanet, 1991. PS3561 .O26 A6 1991 Robarts Library.
      • --. One Train: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O55 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988. New York, NY: Knopf, 1994. PS3521 .O27 O5 1994X Robarts Library.
      • --. Straits: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, NY), 1998. PS3521 .O27 S7 1998X Robarts Library.
      • --. New Addresses: Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 2000. PS3521 .O27 N49 2000X Robarts Library.
      • --. Sun Out: Selected Poems, 1952-1954. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002. PS3521 .O27 A6 2002X Robarts Library.
      • --. A Possible World. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002.
        PS3521 .O27 P67 2002X Robarts Library.
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  • McClaurin-Allen, Irma. "Audre Lorde". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Gale Group, 1985. pp. 217-222.
  • Lorde, Audre. The First Cities. Introduction by Diane di Prima. Providence, RI :Poets Press, 1968.
  • --. Cables to Rage. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970.
  • --. From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973. PS3562 .O75 F7 Robarts Library
  • --. The New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1974.
  • --. Coal. New York, NY: Norton, 1976. PS3562 .O75 C6 Robarts Library
  • --. Between Our Selves. Crested Butte, CO: Eidolon, 1976.
  • --. The Black Unicorn. New York, NY: Norton, 1978. PS3562 .O75 B55 Robarts Library
  • --. Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1982. PS3562 .O75 C4 1982 Robarts Library
  • --. Our Dead Behind Us. New York, NY: Norton, 1986. PS3562 .O75 O8 1986 Robarts Library
  • --. Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1992. PS3562 .O75 C4 1992 Robarts Library
  • --. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. New York, NY: Norton, 1993.
  • --. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: Norton, 1997. PS3562 .O75 A17 1997 Robarts Library