Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman Poems

• The Piano Player Explains Himself
  When the corpse revived at the funeral, The outraged mourners killed it; and the soul Of the revenant passed into the body
• The Work
  A great light is the man who knows the woman he loves A great light is the woman who knows the man she loves
• Descartes' Loneliness
  Toward evening, the natural light becomes Intelligent and answers, without demur: "Be assured! You are not alone. . . ."
• Enough Rain For Agnes Walquist
  It happened at midnight. - What I possessed and lost or what I never possessed and have nonetheless lost, or what in any case I was not born possessing but received from another's mouth:
• A Pastoral
  At that time the sheep called to him From their wormy bellies, as they Lay bloating in the field. He was
• Poland Of Death (Iv)
  It is the duty of every man, And woman, to write the life of the mother. But the life of the father is written by The father alone. - Now he is of great size
• The Life And Death Kisses
  The chroniclers ceased, they ceased . . . until I arose - Out of the infinite unborn, one of the born who lived, And out of the number of all who have lived and died, One of those yet alive,
• The Lecture
  Place a man in the center, and he becomes The man who has prepared for a lifetime To answer, and now is ready.
• The Ballad Of The Bone Boat
  I dreamed I sailed alone In a long boat, a white bone; Like a strong thought, or a right name The sail had no seam.
• Pat's Poem
  Semper dum vivam tui meminero - Erasmus This is a poem for my old nurse Pat - Who had something wrong with her heart.
• The Thrush Returns From The Waste And Vo...
  O kid! I didn't understand. But now I get it. Forget their words! Look around for yourself. At a great distance, we heard something. First you said, "Do you hear that?" And I DID hear it.
• The Caedmon Room
  Upstairs, one floor below the Opera House on top of the building, was the Caedmon room - a library of sorts. The Caedmon room
• White Sales
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