The world and its streets, places

192 Pages·1977·22.125 MB·English

by  Larry Eigner

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ALSO BY LARRY EIGNER
Poems (1941)
From the Sustaining Air (1953)
Look At the Park (1958)
On My Eyes (1960)
The Music, the Rooms (1965)
Six Poems (1967)
Another Time In Fragments (1967)
The-/Towards Autumn (1967)
Air the Trees (1968)
The Breath of Once Live Things In the Field With Poe (1968)
A Line That May Be Cut (1968)
Clouding (1968)
Flat and Round (1969)
Farther North (1969)
Valleys Branches (1969)
Selected Poems (1972)
Words Touching Ground Under (1972)
What You Hear (1972)
Shape Shadow Elements Move (1973)
Earth Birds (1973)
Things Stirring Together Or Far Away (1974)
Anything on Its Side (1974)
THE
WORLD
AND
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S TREETS,
PLACES
LARRY EIGNER
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Black Sparrow Press - Santa Barbara - 1977
& Copyright © 1977 by Larry Eigner.
THE WORLD ITS STREETS, PLACES.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part
of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever
without written permission except in the case of brief quotations
embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address
Black Sparrow Press, P.O. Box 3993, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks for previous airings to the following magazines: Ann Aiboi
Review, Aldebamn Review, Athanoi, Boss, Caterpillar, Coyote’s Jour-
nal, The Desert Review, Earth, El Como Emplumado, Damascus Road,
Elizabeth, Friendly Local Press, From A Window, Global Tapestry,
Lampeter Muse, Love Letter, Intrepid, It, Mica, Maelstrom, Maps,
Nomad, Noose, Magazine, Man Root, Origin, Or, 121, Potpourri,
Pogomoggan, Salted Feathers, Satis, Sumac, The, The Outsider, This,
Tish, The Sparrow, Tolar Creek Syndicate, The University of Tampa
Poetry Review, Work, Win, Zahir.
Thanks also to the publishers of these anthologies: Inside Outer
Space (Doubleday/Anchor), New Folder (Folder Editions), Neue Amer-
ikanische Lyrik (Carl Hanser Verlag), My Music Bent (The Elizabeth
Press); and to a press edition which in 1975 issued "around new/
sound daily/means"—a 12-1/2 minute tape of Eigner reading 27 orig-
inal pieces, including "time flies", and a booklet of the pieces to go
with it; and to the proprietors of Black Ace Books in Denver, in
whose catalog "Apocalypse" appeared.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Eigner, Larry, 1927-
The world & its streets, places.
I. Title.
PS3509.I47W6 811'.5'4 77-8974
ISBN 0-87685-268-1 (trade paper edition)
ISBN 0-87685-269-X (cloth signed edition)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
“ominous ..." 11
“other earth now ..." 12
“boy and girl . . 13
“such screechings of brakes ..." 14
“trees green ..." 15
“leaves ..." 16
“birds . . 17
“a finger ..." 18
“bedsheet ..." 19
“time flies . . 20
“will acid rest ..." 21
“obscure poems . . 22
“synaesthesia proprioception . . 23
“increase the bombing . . 24
“In their own wreaths ..." 25
“why should there be death ..." 26
“in all the smog . . 27
“cross-roads of China ..." 29
“the wind's tune . . 30
(to recognize worldwide animal
stateofnature) 31
Windy side of the house 33
“the philosophy of risk . . 34
“Furniture Store . . 35
“A bird from somewhere ..." 36
“now quiet . . 37
“In a corner . . 38
“a stretch of light . . 39
“with enough breeze ..." 40
“all wrapped up . . 41
“you dedicate ..." 42
“heirlooms . . 43
“not raining ..." 44
“on the face of . . 45
"the figures ..." 46
"not bookworm but . . ." 47
"the wind ..." 48
"dandelions ..." 49
"The great heat of the day ..." 50
"busy speech ..." 51
"footsteps . . ." 52
a vacuum ... ff 5CO3
"walking ..." 55
"earth air ..." 56
"squirrels and birds . . ." 58
the whole round of earth 59
"the sound ..." 61
"his life ..." 62
"the leaves in space ..." 64
MADNESS! 65
"the world ..." 67
"birds the warmest blood ..." 68
"Let George Do It . . ." 69
"skunk smell . . ." 70
"the red checker cab ..." 71
"the fly ..." 72
"the smell of a blanket ..." 73
"the birds sing ..." 74
"how much sat hard ..." 75
"What's a tree . . ." 76
"3 p.m. . . ." 77
"wrapped up . . ." 78
"Apocalypse . . ." 79
"(View one night . . ." 80
"nights ..." 82
"perfectly well and safe ..." 83
"Let time . . ." 84
"how it comes about . . ." 85
"stones of the driveway ..." 87
"walking the hill ..." 88
"damp wind ..." 89
sequoia 90
"the grown strange ..." 91