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Thasos and Ohio.  Poems and Translations 1950 -- 1980. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. Contents: The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard ARCHILOCHOS Soldier Girl Thasos Battle Fireworks on the Grass Troop Ship Old Landlord Prudence Strategy Morning Report Just So Fortuna Grace Poem: For Lu Chi's Wen Fu (302 AD) At Marathon The Medusa Wind's Source in the Bend of the Road SAPPHO The Wedding of Ektor and Andromakha Horses in Flowers Vale Himself The Arbor Anakoria Kleis Hesperos Endymion Parting ALKMAN Hymn to Artemis Hymn to Hera Night You and I Together Epigrams Imp Poem Begun by Ronald Johnson Swan Swans Beyond Punt and Cush Priapos A Professor at Bordeaux RILKE Duino Elegy I Duino Elegy V Ohio For Lorine Niedecker For Jonathan Williams For Basil Bunting ANAKREON Epitaph La Vie Spadger Lady Breeze Amphora and Daughterleaf Springtime and Autumn Fire, October, Eyes 1880 Comments:  Diogenes HERONDAS The Matchmaker The Whorehouse Manager The Little Boy Acknowledgements: "'The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard' was published in Poetry August 1967, and as a book in 1982, by Jordan Davies, New York. The translations of Archilochos, Sappho, and Alkman, earlier versions of which came out variously in Arion, Poetry, and The Hudson Review, are from Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, University of California Press, 1980 and 1984. 'Poem: For Lu Chi's Wen Fu (302 A.D.)' was published in The Hudson Review, 'At Marathon' in Parnassus, and 'The Medusa' in Edward Field's anthology, A Geography of Poets, Bantam Books, New York 1979 and as a pamphlet by David Orr and Gray Zeitz, Louisville, Kentucky, 1984.   'Poem Begun by Ronald Johnson', 'Swan' (which figures, distributed through out the text, in my 'Christ Preaching at the Henley Regatta, Da Vinci's Bicycle, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1979), 'Swans', published in The Kentucky Review, and 'Beyond Punt and Cush', published in The Hollow Spring Review, were all reprinted as a book, Goldfinch Thistle Star, by Red Ozier Press, New York, 1983. The translations of the first and a fragment of the fifth Duino Elegies figure in Apples and Pears, North Point Press, Berkeley, 1984. 'Ohio', from the same text, is an extension of a Shaker song. 'For Lorine Niedecker' was published in Epitaphs for Lorine, edited by Jonathan Williams, The Jargon Press, North Carolina, 1973. 'For Cousin Jonathan' appeared in Truck, and 'For Basil Bunting' in Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday, the Jargon Society, 1977. The translations from Anakreon were published in Conjunctions. 'Springtime and Autumn', 'Amphora and Daughterleaf' and 'Fire, October, Eyes' are excerpts from Flowers & Leaves, The Jargon Society, 1966. '1880' was published in Conjunctions; it is a translation from the Hebrew in that its author, Harold Schimmel, the distinguished Israeli poet, provided me with a trot and vetted the translation. The translations of Diogenes and Herondas are from Herakleitos and Diogenes and The Mimes of Herondas, both by Grey Fox Press, San Francisco, 1979 and 1981 respectively." Dedication: For Christopher Middleton Where stone lies the body also Borne under sun and circumstance Would navigate through the undertow Whether of seawave or breathed utterance Note:  Three poems listed in the Contents, 'Wind's Source in the Bend of the Road', 'Priapos', and  'A Professor at Bordeaux' are not mentioned in GD's 'Acknowledgments'.  I have not found these three poems published previously elsewhere.   .
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