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9781629220062

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4 Mo

Michael Benedikt (1935-2007), who has been occasionally grouped with the New York School poets, as well as James Tate and Russell Edson, published five books of poetry in his lifetime, and edited several anthologies, including the influential The Prose Poem (1976) and The Poetry of Surrealism (1974). This collection brings together for the first time work from all five of those long out-of-print volumes-along with work from his five unpublished manuscripts, which were nearly destroyed after his death. Finally, this once widely published and influential voice is back in print, and a fuller understanding of the development of American surrealism and the prose poem in the 1960s and 1970s is possible. Also, the more expansive work that he began in 1980, which investigated the line between the lyric and prose narrative, is finally getting the book presentation it deserves. A lifelong New Yorker, Benedikt was at various times an associate editor with Art News and Art International, managing editor of Locus Solus, and poetry editor of the Paris Review. Benedikt also taught at institutions such as Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, Vassar, and Boston University.

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Publié par

University of Akron Press

Date de parution

09 février 2014

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781629220062

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

4 Mo

Philosophie et théologie

TIMEISATOY

by michael benedikt

poems Changes: A Chapbook, New Fresco (Detroit), 1961 The Body, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, Conn.), 1968 Sky, Wesleyan University Press, 1970 Mole Notes, Wesleyan University Press, 1971 Night Cries, Wesleyan University Press, 1976 The Badminton at Great Barrington; or, Gustav Mahler & the Chattanooga ChooChoo, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980

plays The Vaseline Photographer, first produced in New York City, 1965 Box, first produced in New York City, 1970

edi ted collections (With George E. Wellwarth)Modern French Theatre: The AvantGarde, Dada, and Surrealism, Dutton, 1964 (With George E. Wellwarth)Postwar German Theatre: An Anthology of Plays, Dutton, 1967 (And translator)Ring Around the World: The Selected Poems of Jean L’Anselme, Rapp & Whiting, 1967, Swallow Press, 1968 Theatre Experiment: New American Plays, Doubleday, 1967 (With George E. Wellwarth)Modern Spanish Theatre: An Anthology of Plays, Dutton, 1968 (And translator)22 Poems of Robert Desnos, Kayak, 1971 (And translator)The Poetry of Surrealism: An Anthology, Little, Brown, 1974 (And cotranslator)The Prose Poem: An International Anthology, Dell, 1976

TIMEISATOY

The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt

Edited by John Gallaher & Laura Boss

The University of Akron Press Akron, Ohio

Copyright © 2014 by Laura Boss All rights reserved • First Edition 2014 • Manufactured in the United States of America. All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the Publisher, the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325–1703.

isbn: 9781937378790 (paper) isbn: 9781629220062 (ePDF) isbn: 9781629220079 (ePub)

library of congress cataloginginpublication data Benedikt, Michael, 1935–2007. [Poems. Selections] Time Is a Toy : The Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt / Michael Benedikt ; Edited by John Gallaher & Laura Boss. — First Edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references.isbn9781937378790 (paperback : alk. paper) I. Gallaher, John, 1965– II. Boss, Laura, 1938– III. Title. PS3552.E54A6 2013 811'.54—dc23 2013034032

∞The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements ofansi /niso z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).

Cover design: Lauren McAndrews

Time is a Toywas designed and typeset in Stone Print with Futura display by Amy Freels, with assistance from Lauren McAndrews, and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by Bookmasters of Ashland, Ohio.

CONTENTS

the benedikt sui tcase John Gallaher of michael Laura Boss six passages: introducing michael benedikt Robert Archambeau preface tobenedikt: a profile Michael Benedikt of poetry, my friend

fromChanges: A Chapbook (1961) raisinglandscapethe gift steedsvictoria fallsironies survivor consolation changes

fromThe Body (1968) air the european shoe fraudulent days procession the eye hidingplace developments gemini emblem a beloved head some feelings joy at night

5 10 17 19

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

33 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45

thoughts after a reading of mcluhan, whom i admired the bathroom mirror pyromaniac’s lament in spring old school ties the guardian angel

fromSky (1970) the future clement attlee* money the blockhouse the artillery portrai t this morning i fooled a butterfly on the lawn passing through troy* the high the sky four psalms* let me out the esthetic fallacy naming the baby definitive things mirror for jane (and roger) but certainly not for henry; or,barbarella* to persuade a lady

fromMole Notes (1971) social concernsthe sandhog’s monologueof the difficulty of finding a friendhow a navy man goes downthe angels; or, god’s eyeballthe new christon painting the bathroom window

46 47 48 49 50 51

55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 64 66 68 70 72 73 75 76 77 79

83 84 85 86 88 89 90

the journey across your thighesthetic nuptialsphysical loveportable warof holesa hope chest in reversechristmas on earth and other vacationswith payin the hospi talembodiment of embeddednessunderstanding; or, a much better place forthe same pricethe night of the foot

fromNight Cries (1976) explanation of the darka giftthe meat epi taphthe taste for all things formala face in the trashthe melancholy moralistthe disappointed philanthropistthe adventures of resentmentliving wi th adversi tythe voyage of selfdiscoverydiscouraging eveningthe pills*the awards of waternew year’s resolutionsthe search for the source

fromUniverse (Unpublished, ca. 1968) & Persephone’s Telephone (Unpublished, ca. 1978) the tragic landscapepicnicking in the infinitestrong tastes

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101

105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119

123 124 125

poem to be looked at during a nauseating warthat is making everybody sickin praise of children (i)cornelia and her friendsarnoldlandscapepersephone’s telephone (i–iii)the crematorium of boredomsecret singingdesire and i ts condui tsaccomplices

126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135

fromThe Badminton at Great Barrington; or, Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga ChooChoo (1980), & “Puffton Poems (Poems from Amherst)” (Unpublished, ca. 1977) saturday night and sunday night blues 139 i tried 140 portland taxis 141 where 142 reunion: the fourth of july 143 the agreeable weekend 144 styles of orgasm 145 the diary 146 up the hill 147 letter to jim / may,1975 148 frompoems around the home 150 [there is so much in life that poetry] 151 byebye to somebody 152

fromFamily Blessings / Family Curses (Unpublished, 1977–1987) fromlike many other necessarily peripateticter “movesamericans, an american wri house” from one ci ty to another in orderto take up a new job—relocating for

reasons of financial need, leaving hisnative new york city (where he’s livedty where he’sall his life) for boston (a ci not lived before); however, sinceacceptance of job offer inviting himto be “visi ting prof. of english & c.w.”ty has, months before,at boston universi already contributed much to the finalbreakup of an already shaky marriage,he travels with divorceproceedingsalso under way towards several new& unfamiliar destinations, somewhatdisorientedly, & wi th only his catfor company (sept.1,1977) 157 for gerald fenichel (who, “way back” in1947lived “way back” in n.y.c.) 163 fromto peggy gabson, already back in hernative n.c., from me, already back inmy native n.y.c., in anticipation offurther meetings in boston 166 don hall & jane kenyon of “eagles pond farm”in new hampshire, invite a n.y.c. boy,resettled for a time in boston, to acountry party; &, following anappropriate if brief “reorientationsession” everybody goes out to hear somepoetry at “the blazing star grange” indanbury, n.h., at kate fowler’s100th (!)birthday party, july16,1978 168 xmas on bay state road, boston, by b.u.,1978 177

fromTransitions (Unpublished, ca. 1995) & Of: (Unpublished, ca. 2007) elegy for eddie (my stepfather, briefly)the fourth of july & new york & new jersey& laura & me

185 190

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