That Derrida whom I derided died : poems 2013-2017 / C.K. Stead.

"In his eighty-sixth year, C.K. Stead's new collection leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, remembering old loves and cringing at his 'lugubrious rhyming'. He writes most often of those who have gone (Jacques Derrida and Allen Curnow, Pete...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Stead, C. K. (Christian Karlson), 1932- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Reviews; By the same author; Title page; Imprint; Contents; CARTOONS and CONTEMPORARIES; An Horatian ode to Fleur Adcock at eighty; The moon; That Derrida whom I derided died; Big Ted; Code: poetry; A pianist and two poets; The widow will not be returning; Witchy Wellington; My contemporaries across the Ditch; 2013 New Year cartoons; AT DOG POINT; Beauty; That summer cento sonnet, 1950s; Funeral; Artie at eighty; Eight pleasant pieces; Budapest; 'J'ai perdu beaucoup de gens.'; Another Horatian ode; Here and there; Spring; Oriental Bay, 6 a.m.; Can you hear it?; Vulpi; At Dog Point.
  • The sun rising, Auckland, August 2017In a Zagreb bookshop; DOUBLE MARGINS; In the June rain; The year was '69; In 'The Memorial Room'; Untitled; The artists at eighty; 1. Lucien Freud: the mirror; 2. Henri Matisse: the models; 3. Paula Rego; 4. J.B. Yeats: the never finished self-portrait; The poetry of fact; Rain; LAUREATE
  • 2015-2017; Three poems for Kay on her birthday 24/12/2016; A Birthday; Christchurch Word Festival, 2016; 3 a.m.; Seeing I'm here; Tenses; The Cathedral; Avondale; Selina; Instead; Apprehension; Good morning; 'Auckland': the renaming; Long-range forecast; WW100; Duty.
  • MansfieldGallipoli; Malone; The bayonet; The Ministry wants one on; The deserter; Quiet there!; The C.O. at Ypres; Jack Lee, D.C.M.; 'We will remember them'; Passchendaele; The Somme; SYLLABICS: PROPRIETIES and IMPROPRIETIES; Really; A matter of time; 14 x 14: Tercets in the spirit of Brecht; The angels of science and compassion; Sapphics for Tarore; A flash in the pan; Amsterdam: the movie; That Stephen Dedalus will never be a poet; By the back door; Hospitality; Sapphics for Clodia; Syllabics for young roosters; NOCTURNES; A morning of remembering . . .; I was the one . . .; Father/s; Barry.
  • Those difficult RussiansUnusual obsequies; Ten minutes to midnight; Notes.