Recollected Poems 1951-2004
Author Daryl Hine ISBN 9781554550210 Binding Trade Paper Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date April 24, 2007 Size 140 x 216 mmBeginning with his first poem appearing in a literary journal at age 14, acclaimed Canadian-American poet Daryl Hine published eleven books of verse over a fifty-three year period - many now long out of print. This book presents Hine's own selection of his best collected and uncollected lyric poems, including that first poem, thematically divided into four sections - art, love, place, and time.
Internationally celebrated for his translations and his poetry, Hine's virtuoso attention to form and the resonance of his details make these poems some of the finest written in the English language.
This collection includes an introduction by the author.
For his control of learning and wit I can think of few poets alive who can approach him. There are very few poets as good as Daryl Hine and almost none like him."
-- John Hollander
"I cannot tell how it is that Daryl Hine knows so much, but it is his poetry which knows. . . his poetry does the telling. If that is what it means to be civilized, witty, playful and urbane. . . such provocations afford us access to experience in a heightened register, a major key."
-- Richard Howard
". . . there is a heroic sense in these poems of a need to parry [the world's onslaughts with steely verbal elegance. . . typical of his civilized erotic self-criticism, somewhat elevated in traditional form. . . I find him sometimes a slightly disconcerting blend of openness and fastidiousness. . . frequently, touching, exact, musical and evocative."
-- John Fuller, T.L.S.
"Hine is a superb poetic craftsman. . . a 'geographer of the word'. . . one is overwhelm-ingly aware of these poems as poems."
-- Barry Cameron, Canadian Literature
RECOLLECTED POEMS: 1951 to 2004
CONTENTS
Introduction
"ANOTHER MIRROR REPRESENTS"
- Letter to Shadow
Les Yeux de la Tête
Trompe l'Oeil
Tabula Rasa
The Devil's Picture Book
Second Thoughts
Lectio Difficilior
Bluebeard's Wife
Wittgenstein
Museum of Science and Industry
Petitio Principi
My Optics
Window or Wall
Memo to Gongora
Psyche
Genesis
Postscript
Anagrams
Tableau Vivant
Homilies on the Death of David Hill, Painter (1914-1976)
Woodcuts: Au Bois Dormant
Canzone
Codex
The Ouija Board
Echo
The Black Swan
Speculations
"YOU, OFTEN LOST, BELOVED OTHER"
- A Conceit
The Doublegoer
Atlantic and Pacific
Splendidior Vitro
Aubade
The Lake
The Boat
Osiris Dismembered
Osiris Remembered
What's His Face
Someone Else's
Congratulations
Aftermath
Sonnets of Detection
Don Juan in Amsterdam
A Trophy
Villanelle: Under the Hill
Phoenix Culpa
The Anatomy Lesson
Sestina Contra Naturam
The Gift
Charm
T.E. L.
Eclogue
Tristan
Summer Afternoon
A Visit
Letting Go
The Nap
Noctium Phantasmata I
Noctium Phantasmata II
Patroclus Putting on the Armour of Achilles
Apart from You
The Wound
Lines on a Platonic Friendship
"PLACES HAVE NO MEMORY FOR FACES"
- Commonplaces
Plain Fare
A B.C. Diary
A Tour in the Forest
Northwest Passages
Point Grey
In the Mountains
On this Rock
Foreign Parts
Acre
The Square
A Thousand Words
Chorus
Côte de Liesse
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain
Arrondissements
The Marché aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
The Pavilion
Choubouloute
Yucatan
Remarks Not Literature?
English Elegaics
Envoi
Linear A
The Retreat
Farewell to the Point
On the Water
The Wave
Copied in Camoes
Raleigh's Last Voyage
Among Islands
The Wreath
Total Immersion
Lovers of the River
The Trout
Sine Qua Non
"ORIENT YOURSELF IN TIME"
- Palinode
Terminal Conversation
Omega
Page by Page
Clepsydra
Paraphrase
Burnt Out
A Bewilderment At The Entrance Of The Fat Boy Into Eden
Sunrise at Sabrevois
Qualis Artifex Pereo
Singular Sunset
A Rebours
The Apple of Discord
Editio Princeps
A Present
Digression
Riddle
The Copper Maple
Cloture Annuelle
Rates of Change
Withdrawal
Blight on Elm
Stanzas in Memoriam
Elementary Alchemy
Strophes
Windfall
The First
Si Monumentum
Horace: Odes I,ix
Lucus a Non Lucendo
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam
Animula Vagula Blandula
"Le Sommeil est une Image de la Mort"
Persephone
The Great Low Chamber
Fragment
Nil Nisi Bonum
Panta Rhei
Ovid's Sorrows in Exile
Notes
Index of Titles
First Line Index
"(Hine) strikes the right balance between sound and sense, as in the latter half of "Panta Rhei," he achieves a state that critics sometimes shy away from judging and perhaps no longer much believe in, aesthetic perfection."
— poetryfoundation.org
"The book is full of everything from travel poems to biographical sketches to meditations on mythology, animals, cities, and history, to writing-about-writing to domestic dramas, each beautifully crafted and flawlessly composed. Only a glutton could ask for more."
— The Malahat Review
"Hine's descriptive chops remain considerable, and when he strikes the right balance between sound and sense, and in the latter half of 'Panta Rhei,' he achiebes a state that critics sometimes shy away from judging and perhaps no longer much believe in, aesthetic perfection."
— Book Review Digest
Daryl Hine
was born in 1936 in British Columbia, Canada. He studied Classics and Philosophy at McGill University and after an interval abroad took a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago in 1967. From 1968 to 1978 he edited Poetry (Chicago), and has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and Northwestern.