Taking on the Local Color. Cynthia Genser

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Автор произведения Cynthia Genser
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       Taking on the Local Color

      THE WESLEYAN POETRY PROGRAM: VOLUME 84

      CYNTHIA GENSER

       Taking on the Local Color

      Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1977, by Cynthia Genser

      Acknowledgement is gratefully made to Antaeus and

      The Paris Review in the pages of which three of the poems

      in this book were first published. The poet wishes to

      express a special thanks to Marie Marsham and Fanny

      Howe.

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the

      Witter Bynner Foundation and the Friends of Wesleyan

      University Press Publication Fund toward the publication

      of this book.

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      Genser, Cynthia, 1950–

      Taking on the local color.

      (The Wesleyan poetry program; v. 84)

      I. Title.

      PS3557.E44T3 811′.5′4 76-41486

      ISBN 0-8195-2085-3

      ISBN 0-8195-1085-8 pbk.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First edition

       for Esther, Eli, and Abbot

       Table of Contents

       Doubles

       Fixed Foot

       Filing

       Truth and Satisfaction

       Confessions

       White Moustache

       Full Bloom

       Quelque-chose d’arabe

       Your Last Experiment

       Towards

       Initial Passion

       Pleasures and Days

       Notre mère de beauté

       Gardening

       Under a Green Blanket

       Carnations

       She loves the Doorway which has taken the name You

       Taking on the Local Color

       Taking on the Local Color

       Le Sorelle

       Into the Wintering Process

       Surfaces

       The New Order

       Storytelling

       She knows she is in pain

       Waking

       They said

       So much redness

       In the Middle Latitudes

       Azteca

       Resorts

       Disembarkation

       Milk

       Graffiti Artists

       In the Emergency Ward

       Heartlands

       Traveling

       On the Beach

       Via Negativa

       Italian Love Song

       A stretch, a long stretch

Doubles

      Fixed Foot

      Sodden.

      What sodden day we didn’t

      walk in the rain.

      You parading

      your glorious head,

      the last book’s last

      sentence, read