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10. MOTHER
 
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20. Track's End: Being the Narrative

1. Toward the Distant Islands: New and Selected Poems
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 150 Pages (2006-04-01)
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“Carruth [is] one of the lasting literary signatures of our time.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Carruth...contains multitudes.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Carruth is a people’s poet... a virtuoso of form.”—The Nation

This “portable Carruth” gathers new poems with the essential works from a major American poet. Included are lyrics, short narratives, comic, meditative, and erotic poems that engage politics, music, rural poverty, and the cultural responsibility of artists. As Sam Hamill writes in the introduction:

“Carruth’s great body of work is a world... Like the jazz he so loves, his poetry ranges from the formal to the spontaneous, from local vernacular to righteous oratory, from beautiful complexity to elegant understatement.”

From “A Few Dilapidated Arias”

“Our crumbling civilization”–a phrase I have used often
during recent years, in letters to friends, even in
words for public print. And what does it mean?
Can
a civilization crumble? At once appears the image
of an old slice of bread, stale and hard, green with mold,
shaped roughly like the northeastern United States, years
old or more, so hard and foul that even my pal Maxie,
the shepherd/husky cross who eats everything, won’t
touch it. And it is crumbling, turning literally into
crumbs, as the millions of infinitesimal internal connecting
fibers sever and loosen. The dust trickles and seeps away.

Hayden Carruth, a longtime resident of Vermont, currently lives in upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. His many honors include the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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5-0 out of 5 stars Lyric Journey
Over many years of reading poetry, I've come to trust that any poetry book published by Copper Canyon Press is going to be an adventure. This collection , hand-picked by Press founder, Sam Hill, is no exception. I'd read enough of Hayden Carruth's work that I expected to be impressed, and I was.

The poems are selected from 12 previous collections (oh, if all of us poets could boast of so many published books!) with an addition of new poems at finish to keep the appetite whetted for more yet to come. It is interesting to watch for change and growth in the whole of Carruth's work, but that his talent was richly showing early on - the first batch selected dates back to 1959's "The Crow and the Heart" - is clear:

Of all disquiets sorrow is most serene.
Its interval of soft humility
Are lenient; they intrude on our obscene
Debasements and our fury like a plea
For wisdom...

Sorrow can shape us better than dismay.

Carruth understands the peaks and valleys of a man's life. As Sam Hill notes in his introduction, this is a poet who has struggled with angels and demons alike, finding both in himself. So his work reflects such struggles, and we swing upwards with him to whisper with angels, just as we slide into shadows with him, to weep and gnash teeth with dark demons. If a poet creates often from the grit inside him, as an oyster its pearl, then this poet proves the old axiom. We must know the demon to recognize the angel; we must strive to be angelic to fully understand the power of the demonic.

Carruth writes glorious love poems to his wife, filled with appetite and relish and adoration. He writes love poems to his daughter, lost too early to cancer. He writes love poems to the natural world around him, and to the characters that are found in humanity. He writes love poems to sorrow.

This is a poet who lives his life seam to seam, depth to height, and journals it into his lyric work. To share in his journey, this is a collection not to be missed. ... Read more


2. Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 140 Pages (1996-04-01)
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Powerful new poems by one of North America's premier poets.
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Adrienne Rich has called Hayden Carruth "a part of ourcountry's poetic treasure," and his other admirers include GalwayKinnell and Wendell Berry. A poet's poet, Carruth spins simple linesfull of possible meanings, lines that stick in the reader's mind along time. In "Particularity," for instance, Carruth writes of "thisinvisible / hereness where I am . . . the center / of mystery."Juxtaposing the mysterious with the tangible, Carruth is writingbetter than ever. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
I liked less than half of the poems, but the poems that I liked were very good.I am glad that I have the book.I will try another book by him.

5-0 out of 5 stars Poems with great range
From the title of Carruth's Collection, Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, the reader expects a Bukowskiesque collection of poems, but in actuality Carruth's work has great dexterity and range of emotion, is quite supple in its expressive quality, and has the capacity to do a lot of heavy, emotional lifting in a confined space.In this collection, three major themes are explored: Carruth's coming death, his marriage to a much younger woman, (and her fate after he is gone) and the cancer of his adult daughter.Carruth weaves these themes and others into a series of poems which, although outwardly simple in terms of language and style, really penetrate the mysteries of life and death.Of course, death is the main character here, but Carruth is rounded enough in his view to see redemption everywhere, especially in death's nemesis, love.

5-0 out of 5 stars Carruth's poems penetrate deep beneath the surface
Do yourself a favor and pick up SCRAMBLED EGGS & WHISKEY -- and follow Hayden Carruth on a journey that masterfully and humbly moves from the most troubling, trying scenes from life to the most redeeming to the everyday and a whole, whole lot in between. Rhythmic, with obvious jazz sensibilities -- and with so much truth -- these poems get to the heart of the matter in ways that make you nod in agreement, laugh out loud or pause in grieving silence or certain solidarity. I am glad this is the book that introduced me to the huge body of Mr. Carruth's work. ... Read more


3. For You
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 1 Pages (1970-06)
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4-0 out of 5 stars Good collection of earlier work.
Hayden Carruth, For You (New Directions, 1970)

For You compiles five long poems from previous in Carruth's career (including "North Winter," reviewed here a few weeks previous), spanning 1958 to 1967. To call some of them long poems is something of a stretch, especially "Contra Mortem," an episodic piece consisting of a number of smaller pieces. Long poems are exceptionally difficult to pull off, and aside from a few potholes along the way, the work in For You holds together surprisingly well (and stands the test of time thirty-five years after publication, for the most part).

Writing more superlatives about Carruth would be overkill. This is good stuff, though it slips a bit now and again (the opening piece, "Asylum," is early work and looks the part, and my criticisms of "North Winter" have already been aired). The Carruth neophyte may be better served starting with Brothers, I Loved You All or Collected Shorter, but the established fan will find much to like here. *** ½ ... Read more


4. Letters to Jane
by Hayden Carruth
Hardcover: 120 Pages (2004-09-01)
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Jane Kenyon, who was married to the poet Donald Hall, earned wide acclaim for her clear, vivid, deeply spiritual lyrics, many of them written in the face of her own -mortality.

During the year of her dying, Carruth’s faithful correspondence, collected here, is a testament to the depth of their friendship, and a rare window into the inner life of a major poet as he confronts the loss of a dear friend. Both Carruth and Kenyon have devoted followings; Letters to Jane offers unique and personal new insight into their poetry.

Of this book, Francine Prose has written, “Reading these beautiful, eloquent, moving letters from one poet to another, you keep forgetting (as you are meant to) even as, paradoxically, it never leaves your mind for a moment, that this is no casual correspondence. Its occasion is urgent and extraordinary. The recipient is dying.

“. . . Carruth writes again and again—honest, direct, affectionate accounts of everyday events: writing and reading, visiting friends, traveling to give poetry readings, enjoying good moods and good health, enduring physical and emotional setbacks, feeding the dog and watching bee balm bloom in the garden.

What’s most mysterious and marvelous about these letters—which end around the time of Kenyon’s death in 1995—is how they manage to be, simultaneously, so relaxed and so intense, so concrete and so reflective, and how every word and every sentence reminds us of the preciousness of ordinary life, and of the enduring and -sustaining consolations of friendship.”

Hayden Carruth is the author of more than 20 books, predominantly poetry. His work has been awarded many honors, including the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Whiting Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He has also written widely on jazz and the blues. He lives in Munnsville, NY.

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5-0 out of 5 stars Honest, Funny, Tender, and True
These letters from Hayden Carruth to Jane Kenyon are an intriguing exploration of a relationship between two great poets.I have always been curious about poets' letters, since they write things in letters they might not reveal under any other circumstances, even, perhaps, in their own poems.For instance, in his letter of May 9, 1994, Carruth writes:"So I frittered away the weekend:read a short manuscript, wrote a few letters, watched a hell of a lot of basketball, read what we used to call cheap-screw fiction.I haven't heard that term for a while.At first it meant under-the-counter porn, but later came to mean any escapist literature.As a consequence, on top of the desperation and depression, I feel guilt.What else is new?"For those who picture the writer's life as one in which the author sits thoughtfully poised over a manuscript 24-hours a day, this may come as a revelation:writers waste time, they struggle to keep themselves on track, they fail, they get depressed as a result of their failures.I find this revelation uplifting rather than sad:it shows Carruth's nuts and bolts existence and in doing so, reveals his humanity. In another letter he talks about having to take his laptop computer to a repair shop because of "excessive cat hair."Carruth, a lover of cats, says that his repairman suggested he get rid of the cat whereupon Carruth admits to Kenyon:"I said immediately, 'Oh, I can't do that,' implying that my wife wouldn't stand for it, which was a cowardly way out, and no doubt sexist too.The fact is I wouldn't stand for it either."Such moments of marvelous self-disclosure are frequent in this book.If you are holding off buying this because you've read other authors' letters and found them boring, don't hesitate any longer.Carruth's presence in these letters is huge.These letters are honest, funny, tender, and true.I am in awe of the relationship Carruth and Kenyon had, and a bit envious, too.I highly recommend this book for writers and for those interested in 20th Century poetry. ... Read more


5. Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 352 Pages (1992-01-01)
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Collected Shorter Poems presents hundreds of lyric, short narrative, comic, meditative, nature, and erotic poems that Hayden Carruth wrote over a forty-five year period. This is a reissue of the book, with new cover design. Noted for the breadth of his linguistic and formal resources, influenced by jazz and the blues, Carruth gives his poems a philosophical resonance. His explorations of rural poverty and hardship— sometimes grim, sometimes funny—are deeply informed by political radicalism and cultural responsibility.Amazon.com Review
For decades Carruth has been admired by other writers for hisuse of varied forms and styles, and, as didFrostbefore him, he has won the loyalty of many readers with his keenobservations of language and the everyday. This extensive collectionranges widely, from Hayden Carruth's early 1950s traditional works tohis later anti-war poems; from his sensual explorations to morenarrative works. Carruth includes what others might discard as ugly,and speaks quietly where others might bombast. It is this quality thatmakes Carruth a talented poet, unique voice and subtlecritic. Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 won a National BookCritics Circle Award in 1992. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A Gathering of the Best of the Best
One of the most significant poetry publications at the end of the twentieth century is Hayden Carruth's Collected Shorter Poems. For too long Carruth suffered the lack of a consistent publisher; as a result, much of his best work has gone unnoticed or too little noticed. Notable in a volume as diverse as this are Carruth's monologues and poems about characters delivered in lines that echo their speech; as the speaker in "John Dryden" notes, "have you noticed / I can't talk about him without talking like him?" Like Frost, Carruth captures a sense of character and place while subtly presenting a complex set of meanings, discovering the kind of "natural symbol" ordinary people grapple with to understand their lives. One of the most powerful, "Marvin McCabe," is a monologue by an inarticulate speaker whose friend "Hayden" acts as amanuensis for the poem. Marvin McCabe details his upbringing and the accident that left him incapacitated--able to think but not talk. Other poems in this mode include "Johnny Spain's White Heifer," "Lady," "Marshall Washer," and "Regarding Chainsaws."

Carruth's lyrics display a range of diction and vocabulary which allows him to modulate easily from low to high style and to incorporate moments of humor in otherwise serious, even solemn poems without violating that tone. His lyrics often derive from careful observation of the natural world, not merely to see things but to consider. Typically, Carruth presents his observations through details objective enough to allow us to "see" the situation yet in language that renders the emotional construct of the subject.

The later poems in the volume, following Carruth's move to Syracuse, New York, in 1979, shift not only idiom and locale, as in Asphalt Georgics, a group of poems written in syllabic ballad stanzas employing frequently hyphenated enjambments, but open up very different poetic territory in the Whitmanesque-lined and loopingly discursive poems from Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands. The first of these laments the passing of the agrarian lifestyle that provided the basis for traditional georgics while celebrating the persistence of human life amid suburban sprawl that threatens that spirit. The strategies of apparent tangent and indirection Carruth uses to build these poems evolves into structures, in the second, which accumulate like jazz riffs and motifs: they seem to diverge wildly from the "point" of the poem only to swoop around at the end to enlarge the idea of point.

Finally, a collected poems provides a perspective on a poet's career. And this volume demonstrates what some readers have long known: Hayden Carruth possesses greater range of style, scope of subject, and diversity of formal skills than any other poet working in the United States today.

5-0 out of 5 stars Especially...
Especially poignant is Carruth's poem "Marvin McCabe," the story of a man who loses his power of speech in a drunk-driving accident.. ... Read more


6. From Snow and Rock, from Chaos: Poems 1965-1972 (New Directions Books)
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 60 Pages (1973-12)
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5-0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, as always.
Hayden Carruth, From Snow and Rock, from Chaos (New Directions, 1973)

Hayden Carruth has long been one of the finest poets America has to offer, and this slim volume offers a good number of reasons why. The fifty-eight pages of this collection (which can still be found for its extremely low cover price at Amazon thirty years later!) are far less intimidating to the Carruth novice than the eight hundred plus of Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, and while the book doesn't include anything of the magnitude of "Ray" or The Bloomingdale Papers, there is more than enough brilliance here to whet the reader's appetite for more of Carruth's soft, often witty poetry. Moving between structure and free verse with a sure hand in both, there is something in this collection for just about everyone. If you haven't yet discovered Carruth, this is an excellent starting point. **** ½ ... Read more


7. Selected Essays (Writing Re: Writing)
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 450 Pages (1995-11-01)
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Essays on poetry by an acclaimed poet-critic.
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The balance, appreciation, and clear-eyed sympathy of HaydenCarruth's 1975 essay on Robert Frost stand as a model for literarycritics. His later essays on the blues, Richard Hugo, and AllenGinsberg are similarly engaged, fair-minded, and human. Not everyfirst-rate poet can write well about poetry, but Carruth is that rarewriter who is brilliant both at making poems and discussingthem. Adrienne Rich writes that these essays "keep faith withpoetry," by which she means that they refuse to simplify orobjectify. There is much to be learned from Carruth's prose as well ashis poetry. ... Read more

8. Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays (Writing Re: Writing)
by Hayden Carruth
 Paperback: 250 Pages (1998-08-01)
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Autobiographical Essays. These touching and intimate essays reveal the integrity of Hayden Carruth-- one of the most solitary, esteemed, and controversial poets of this century. Despite his wide erudition, he has lived largely outside academia. These essays chronicle a lifetime of wrestling with his personal demons and muses; time spent hospitalized for severe chronic depression; a passionate love of jazz and blues; his suicide attempt; and most of all, his uncommon, unflinching honesty.Amazon.com Review
Readers unfamiliar with the poetry of Hayden Carruth will bestruck by the honesty and clarity of his new book of autobiographicalessays. A solid introduction to his interior world, Reluctantlyalso serves well as a supplement to Carruth's 50 years of publishingpoetry, criticism, and one fine, underread novel, AppendixA. Now in his late 70s, Carruth has witnessed from his seclusionin remote New England the rise and fall of myriad intellectual,political, and poetical movements. In his essays, he sets thesepassages alongside events in his own life as if to find explanationsfor the absurdity of one in the chaos of the other. As the titlesuggests, it is with great reluctance that he discusses his suicideattempts, hospitalizations, nervous breakdowns, divorces, and otherdisappointments. Yet in his memory these events are so intertwinedwith his successes and joys, indeed with his whole creativeenterprise, that he is compelled to give both equal time. At times,the essays' careful manipulation of style and sound approaches themeasured reverie of Carruth's poetry, especially when discussing hisyears in northern Vermont, the setting for many of his more famouspoems. He describes in great detail the cowshed he converted into awriting cabin, and in fact the book's main characters besides himselfare his neighbors there, Martin and Frances Parkhurst, through whosefriendship Carruth relearned the social skills he felt he lost duringa series of bad crackups in his 30s.

For whatever reason, Carruth remains elliptical about some of the moresignificant details of his life. For many years he was the editor ofPoetry. Prior to that he was part of the Allied Army force thatinvaded Italy during World War II. He mentions these experiences onlybriefly, then, for example, writes three paragraphs about watching afrozen bobcat slowly decompose during a spring thaw. Unlike TobiasWolff and Mary Karr, his former colleagues at Syracuse University, whoonly mildly retooled their styles for their memoirs This Boy's Lifeand The Liars'Club, Carruth employs the autobiographical mode as a footnoteto his real work. There are more specific details of his life in hisNationalBook Award-winning collection, Scrambled Eggs &Whiskey, than in Reluctantly. What Carruth captureshere is more ephemeral yet more vital than a mere autobiography. Givena chance to explain his love of jazz, or his suicide attempt, or hispsychoanalysis, Carruth indulges in tangents in ways his strictpoetics would never entertain. There is something fitting about theauthor allowing himself a few autobiographical reflections at thispoint in his career, and his reluctance only heightens their value.--Edward Skoog ... Read more


9. The Sleeping Beauty
by Hayden Carruth
 Paperback: 96 Pages (1990-07-01)
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3-0 out of 5 stars A minor work, in the greater canon.
Hayden Carruth, The Sleeping Beauty (Copper Canyon, 1990)

The Sleeping Beauty is a long (125-section) poem from Carruth, one that seems fragmented at first but gradually pulls together; mythology, dreams, jazz, all worked into something that could equally be a poem of love or hate, depending on the reader's perspective. As is usual with Carruth, the language flows, but often with the speed of cold molasses; Carruth's work goes from being accessible to being thick, sometimes within the same poem.

Not a good place to start with Carruth (the best place is Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, also released by Copper Canyon), but definitely worthy for established fans. *** ... Read more


10. MOTHER
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: Pages (1985-01-01)

Isbn: 0918092604
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11. The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth
by Hayden Carruth
 Paperback: 165 Pages (1986-02)
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12. Part of the Bargain (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets)
by Scott Hightower
Paperback: 96 Pages (2005-11-01)
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Part of the Bargain, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award and selected from nearly 1,000 entries, is both a cabinet of curiosities and a sweep of philosophical idylls. Hightower’s poems range in style and subject, with soliloquies, laments, eccentric ponderings, and contemplations of appetite and art.

From Door to the Terrace

You withdraw from me like a match
From a final cigarette and dance every
Abandonment. The strains of music
That accompany you float away with you.

The book’s epigraph evokes a Faustian contract, which is echoed in the tensions between urban and rural, light and dark, moral and amoral action. Hightower’s influences—Sappho, Virgil, Blake, and Wilde—make their presence known as he reflects upon life in urban America after growing up in rural Texas, about coming of age as a gay man, about art and artists, poetry and painting.

From Spending the Night

Now, in another part of the country,
I hear it called “staying over.”
Back then, a couple of years
was a gaping difference.
The ornately carved door
covering the strings of an upright
melded into the headboard
of the bed . . .

Part of the Bargain also explores the imperceptible reconciliations that one makes as an individual, a part of a community, and as a conscientious heir to a culture. Valences of sexuality, nationality, literality all swirl together and perform a balancing act as the poet aspires to pull back the curtain of “the ineffable pageantry” of our multilayered lives.

Scott Hightower is the author of two books of poems, Tin Can Tourist and Natural Trouble. His writings have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Salmagundi, The Yale Review, and The Paris Review. He teaches at Fordham University and New York University and is a contributing editor to The Journal. He lives in New York City.

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5-0 out of 5 stars Smart, Insightful, and Clear
What a pleasure to read an artist who absolutely knows what he is doing!"Part of the Bargain" is distinguished and original.The book seems to celebrate the delicateness of the human condition while recognizing the harshness of the grief that comes with the territory.Without being arcane, archaic, or sentimental, the poems are smart, insightful, and clear.The voice is consistent--even generous.Whether song or story, Hightower is at the top of his game in every poem!

5-0 out of 5 stars Clean and deep hitting...
From an invocation to the muse and polio in the childhood landscape to Hightower's take on "Noli Me Tangere" to a meditation on Filicide (which I had to look up) and public execution.The poems in "Part of the Bargain" are clean and deep hitting.I loved every bit of it! ... Read more


13. Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets)
by Lisa Olstein
Paperback: 90 Pages (2006-11-01)
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Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. 

What seemed a mystery was
in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.
What seemed a memory was in fact
a dividing line. Insert bird for wind.
Insert wind for departure when everyone
is standing still. . .

Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: "stunning" and "lovely" and a bold "YES!"

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5-0 out of 5 stars "Radio Crackling, Radio Gone"-- poetry by Lisa Olstein
Ms. Olstein sings the songs of angels with lyrics inspired, timeless and resonant. Deeply rooted in the earth and the nether world, she portrays the divinity of nature and humanity; indeed, of life itself. She more than deserves the Hayden Carruth Award. I expect to hear a lot more from this talented young poet. ... Read more


14. Sitting In: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 239 Pages (1993-08-01)
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This collection of essays and poems about the influence of jazz onwriting and culture in this country, an expanded edition of the 1986publication, is a rewarding volume for all those entranced by jazz.Carruth brings his considerable poetic and literary sensibilities tobear on a topic very near to his heart: "Those who are devoted primarilyto jazz, to poetry, to all the arts, are also those who contribute moreintelligently than others to our practical and moral, political andsocial, advancement."

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15. A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs
by James Laughlin, Hayden Carruth
Hardcover: 94 Pages (1998-10)
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Poetry. A COMMONPLACE BOOK OF PENTASTICHS is acompilation of 249 poems composed in a fine-line stanza form firstintroduced in THE SECRET ROOM (1997). It is the last book of his ownthat Laughlin helped to prepare. Musing on the full collection, HaydenCarruth writes in his introduction: "For the reader it is a survey ofliterature that will never be found in the classroom ... butindubitably will be found in loving longlasting proximity on many abedside table." James Laughlin founded New Directions in 1936. His ownfirst book, NATURAL THINGS, appeared nine years later. POEMS NEW ANDSELECTED, was completed shortly before hisdeath in 1997. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Pentastichs galore OR Reader's notes in five line form
A commonplace book is a sort of scholar's scrapbook in which to keep quotations etc. that you find useful.As a commonplace book this volume gives wonderful insight into Laughlin's reading/influence -
South Asian holy texts, Japanese novels, classical Latin and Greek texts ... a fascinating and varied collection.

These snapshots (as well as original entries) are in the form of pentastichs - a form Laughlin introduced in his The Secret Room: PoemsThis is a five line form, short lines, natural voice cadence.One has to wonder if extracting 5 lines from a pre-existing poem legitimately puts it in a new form.I suppose that since Laughlin created the rules ... More interesting to me in terms of form are the poems extracted from prose - a variety of "found poems".Here Lauglin's choice of line breaks and material gives a better sense of how Laughlin envisioned the form.Finally, the original poems show Laughlin, the poet, at work.Here we find several macronic verse (two languages are used), some very witty observations and some sage advice.

Delightful as the book is, recognising how much insight it gives into Laughlin's influences, I still have to wonder.If someone else extracted 5 line segments from others' works and used them as the mainstay of a book of poetry, could they get it published?

5-0 out of 5 stars A remarkable work by a remarkable man who is an old friend.
I am no reviewer but thank you for asking.My name is Herb Slojewski.I've known Mr. Laughlin's work all my life.This is one of his finest books.Mr. L. was an admirer and supporter of Denise Levertov, who diedjust a short while ago.Don't miss this one, please.Thanks, Mr.Laughlin!Thank you very much.Herb.Thursday night.Eagle Rock,California 9.9.99--9:09 PM ... Read more


16. Collected Longer Poems (National Poetry Series)
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 240 Pages (1993-11-01)
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5-0 out of 5 stars More Lessons from the Master
W. H. Auden, in his introduction to 19th Century British Minor Poets, established five criteria for being major, of which a candidate must satisfy at least three and a half. The poet must be prolific, demonstrate "wide range in subject matter and treatment," evidence "originality of vision and style," show mastery of verse technique, and continue maturing as a poet until death. Hayden Carruth meets all these conditions, as his Collected Longer Poems demonstrates by itself; taken together with his Collected Shorter Poems (1992), it marks Carruth as a preeminent master. The poems were composed between 1957 and 1983 and have been published in various collections, only one previously unavailable except in a fine-press edition. Three are written in Carruth's trade-mark "paragraphs," rhymed, variably metered fifteen-line stanzas, including The Sleeping Beauty, the heart of Carruth's oeuvre to date. Other poems in the collection are written in sprawling Whitmanesque lines, tercets, free-verse lyrics, and loosened blank verse, the chosen form answering the demands of the subject matter. Few, if any, of Carruth's contemporaries--or immediate predecessors or followers--have demonstrated such extensive mastery.

4-0 out of 5 stars An overlooked poet
This collection contains several of Carruth's longer poems, including "The Sleeping Beauty."I picked up this collection to read this poem in my studies and I was impressed.Carruth's poetry is interesting and sparks the imagination with his subtle and genuine style. ... Read more


17. Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems, 1969-1977
by Hayden Carruth
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5-0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Carruth's finest work.
Hayden Carruth, Brothers, I Loved You All (Faculty Press, 1978)

Why must it be such a truism that the best books of any relatively prolific poet must be published by small, out-of-the-way presses with no distribution? Bukowski's Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, for example, or Lifshin's A New Film in Love with the Dead. Simic's Nine Poems, Cronshey's Afternoon in the Museum of Late Things. The whole catalog of Liz Willis. It's all brilliant and all impossibly hard to find.

Add Carruth's "wow"-inducing Brothers, I Loved You All, published by Faculty Press, to the list. Now almost impossible to find (though most of it can be found in Collected Shorter and Collected Longer, published in the early nineties by Copper Canyon and must-haves for any poetry fan), Brothers is one of the rarest birds to be found in all of poetry.

Poetry has long been considered a dying art form, and there are valid arguments to be made to that effect. Song has taken the province that poetry trod before it, and in all honesty does much of it better. But the solid image is still, for the most part, the exclusive province of poetry, save for a few surrealist novels and a handful of consistently amazing songwriters. The niche for poetry, since the time of Eliot and Williams, has been the image. (Would that more would-be poets understood this and stopped penning second-rate song lyrics. But I digress.) The poet who persists in formal poetry, or poetry that strays outside the bounds of image, is wading in a pool of hip-deep slime from which ninety-nine percent of poets fail to emerge at all. (Your current author is very much included in this, when he chooses to venture into such dangerous waters.) Of those who do, they may manage a few short pieces that manage to both take the narrative quality of earlier works and add to it the polish necessary to captivate today's reader of poetry, unutterably jaded after years of having schoolroom elephant dung shoved down their throats. A handful of poets are consistently fantastic at this. But very, very few after World War II would ever have even considered trying to do it with the long poem. Hayden Carruth has tried a number of times, usually with less than stellar results compared to his finest short work; in "Vermont," the centerpiece of Brothers, he has succeeded in such a way that, had he never written a single other word in his career that will be remembered, he has etched himself in the canon of American writers.

"Vermont" is an astounding piece of work that traverses history, politics, quirky personalities, the gradual paving of the state, and everything in between, the whole mess. Carruth switches voices as effortlessly as Rich Little roasting Mel Blanc, with subtle changes in diction to bring the whole thing off. Part formal, part free, "Vermont" is, quite simply, must reading for poets, aspiring poets, and poetry fans.

"...Why, hell, I knew a man
living in Coos Junction who wouldn't take
a twenty-dollar bill; he couldn't stand
to carry Andrew Jackson in his back pocket.
'Gimme two tens,' he said. 'Ain't it just like
them fathead red-tape artists? They design
the twenty for a red, then put a great man
like Hamilton on the tens...."

I have no illusions that reading "Vermont" will suddenly turn a nation with millions of wannabes for every real working poet into a nation of Carruths; most people are simply too dull, or too unschooled, to pick up the subtle differences between the brilliance that Carruth displays here and the random, unpoetic barkings of the "socially conscious" poets that never fail to land with such a dull thud. (I know. I've already tried to get them to read Carolyn Forche.) But at least they will have been exposed to such great brilliance. **** ½ ... Read more


18. Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands (New Directions Paperbook)
by Hayden Carruth
Paperback: 83 Pages (1989-10)
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4-0 out of 5 stars Inconsistent, but when it's good, it's very very good.
Hayden Carruth, Tell Me Again How the White Heron Rises Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Towards the Distant Islands (New Directions, 1990)

I was of the opinion for many years that Hayden Carruth was America's finest living poet. These days, he still ranks, but I often find him more frustrating than anything. He's always straddling the line between real poetry and that vague prose-broken-up-into-lines that is only poetry when maybe a tenth of a percent of writers dabble in it.

The first section of Tell Me Again is full of failed experiments in attempts at vagueness. Value-words, as opposed to images, abound. Not to say there aren't a few successes, but the majority of them are very much prose broken up into lines.

Then comes the second section, and all that goes away. One long poem on the death of his mother, Carruth retreats to where all good poets find their best work; the image. It would, for most people, be impossible to write a poem on such an event (especially one as long as this) without straying into the land of judgment and value, and to be sure, Carruth does on a number of occasions. But here, it works, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Maybe it's because the poem is so rooted in memories (which are, of course, naked image). "Mother" is another of those poems written that make Carruth sound as if he could do no wrong ("Ray," written soon after this, is another; it can be found in Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, and is must reading for any Carruth fan who's never had the pleasure). But rather than there really being a high pint of his career (if he had one, the late eighties and early nineties would be it), this seems another example of Carruth's ability to let fly with a real monster every once in a while, an ability that has stayed with him throughout his career, from the earliest books to the most recent.

Hayden Carruth is without doubt a fine author. Tell Me Again is a good book, certainly better than 99% of the books of poetry out there. But what makes is worth seeking out and buying is "Mother," the long poem that comprises the book's second section. A definite must-read. *** ½ ... Read more


19. Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and [1911 ]
by Hayden Carruth
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Originally published in 1911.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more


20. Track's End: Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
by Hayden Carruth
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Frederick Hayden Carruth (1862- 1932) was an American author, editor and journalist. Born in Minnesota, he was the editor of the Women's Home Companion and was a prolific contributor to The Saturday Evening Post, the National Magazine, Harper's New Monthly Magazine and The Smart Set. His works include: Uncle Bentley and the Roosters (1873), The Adventures of Jones (1895) and The Voyage of the Rattletrap (1897). ... Read more


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