The collected poetry and prose of Lawrence Fixel

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"From his early beginnings as a writer in the 1930s Works Progress Administration (under the direction of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison) to his death in 2003, Lawrence Fixel's literary output was steady and prolific. Regarded by prose poets both in the United States and abroad as an early master of the prose poem and pioneer of the modern parable, Fixel's careful, explorative, often wryly humorous, deeply introspective work -- sought out to the end of his life by avant-garde magazines -- strikes a chord of the universally human: our foibles, our arrogances, our excesses and triumphs. This volume presents, for the first time, all of this American master's published work, including both his early poetry in verse and his extensive body of work in prose."--

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Introduction / Gerald Fleming

In view of this it begins / Lawrence Fixel

Truth, War, and the Dream-Game: Selected Prose Poems and Parables, 1966-1990 (1991)

Foreword to 'Truth, War, and the Dream-Game'

Tracking Stations: New and Selected Parables, 1966-1981

pt. One The Flight / The Quest. Flight Patterns ; Above It All ; Give Up, Give Up ; Destruction of the Temple ; The Departure / The Return ; The Refugees / The Pilgrims ; The Base Camp ; Absent Without Leave ; The Crossing ; Leaving the City

pt. Two The Watchers / The Watched. The Invaders ; The Situation Room ; The Retreat of the Leaders ; The Leopards / The Temple ; Trading with the Enemy ; Caesar's Thumb ; The Contest ; The Cage: The Performance ; The Actor: Farewell & Return ; The Trouble with Winds

pt. Three The Codes / The Signals. The Hat, The Indian, The Lizard ; The Given Day ; The Career of Hands ; A Simple, Factual Report ; Reading the Text ; The Master ; The Sacrifice ; Protective Measures ; The Shrinking City ; The Knock

pt. Four The Myths / The Emblems. The Fifth Room ; The Message / The Messenger ; Angel in the Freezer ; Reading Borges ; The Choice ; The Loaves / The Fishes ; The Dark Pattern ; The Return of Sadhu ; Say We Are Going ; The News from Dronesville ; The Trial of Two Cities ; More Than a Thing

Chance Scripts: Selected Prose Poems, 1970-1987. The Concert Hall / The Big Tent / The Pasture ; Goodbye to a Village ; Limbo ; The Book / The Mailing ; The Error Catastrophe ; The Candidate / The Canceled Child ; Framis: More or Less Himself ; The Lost Parable ; Second to the Wolf ; No Time for Gestures ; A Picture in the Voice? ; The Feathers of My Wife ; Between Worlds ; The Agony of Crevices ; One Vote for the Vulture ; A Stone Taking Notes ; How Tall Was Toulouse-Lautrec? ; Among Other Things ; Question of a Shovel ; Life & Death of a Guide ; Say He Arrives There ; The Door to Have ; The Door to Have (2) ; The Trouble with Keys ; Truth, War, and the Dream-Game ; The Place / The Name / The Child

Structural Pursuits: Prose Poems and Parables, 1987-1990. The Photographers ; Words Out of Reach ; Kafka's Bridge ; The Bridge to Dream / to Remember ; The Awakening ; Portrait of the Man: As Novelist ; More About Stones ; Wind, Says the Voice ; The Jugglers ; The Poet Digs a Hole ; The Cheering Section ; Who Waits for Whom? ; The Universal Delivery Service ; The Fourth Step ; Next Is This

Afterword to 'Truth, War, and the Dream-Game'

From The Scale of Silence: Parables (1970). The Garden ; The Prisoner ; The Examination ; The Circus / The Zoo ; The Travel Agent ; The Portrait

From The Edge of Something (1977). The Edge of Something ; Notes on Beato Angelico ; The House / The Doors ; The Graduate ; The Man Who Was ; Afterword to 'The Edge of Something'

Through Deserts of Snow (1975)

The Book of Glimmers (1979). For the Reader ; Glimmers One: Unfinished Circumstance ; Glimmers Two: Weights / Measures / Affections ; Glimmers Three: Mining Shadows ; Notes and further work-points to 'The Book of Glimmers' ; Afterword to 'The Book of Glimmers'

From Unlawful Assembly: A Gathering of Poems, 1940-1990 (1994). Letter to a Friend, 1941

In That Which Passes. Looking Backward ; Looking Toward ; Landing in Idaho ; Riding the Bus in Sicily ; Italy, 1978 ; On the Death of Aldo Moro (Rome, May 9, 1978) ; Year of the Bloodhound ; Song for the Ending of the Year ; Studying the Season ; Speech to the Sentries

News the Body Brings. Beginning ; Breathing Lessons ; Coming to This Place ; Doctor, Doctor ; Digging In ; On a Recent Suicide (G.A., June 1973) ; Figure into Form ; Rising ; Sixty She Says ; Left Hand / Right Hand

Water, Sky, and Unmarked Time. Northpoint ; As Helmsman ; Elsewhere Then It Happens ; Encounters on the River ; Entering Waters ; Evolution ; By God and by Guess ; The Color of the Sky ; Present Shores ; Slipping Away ; The Stranger: As Balloonist

Echoes and Entrances. The Identity of an Hour ; Take This City Now ; All at Once ; City Between the Lines ; Dreaming Gardens ; The Fool Not Yet Complete ; The Survivors: A Legend ; Return to the Air ; Echoes and Entrances

Beyond the Name and Number. What the Wastebasket Tells ; Notes on a Doppelganger ; Guesswork ; Equations ; Born Unattended ; The Apex Travel Service ; Therefore ; Unsaying ; The Unnamed ; Something That the Name Gathers ; Afterword to 'Unlawful Assembly': A Time to Gather ; Among the Missing ; Another Time, Another Voyage

Lost Subjects / Found Objects (1998). Foreword to 'Lost Subjects / Found Objects

pt. One. Rope Song. Dreaming the Figure ; Morning With / Without Love ; The Sleep, the Waking ; Chopin in Alaska ; Ghost Farm ; The Torturer's Horse

pt. Two. Assault on the White Frame House ; Schliemann at Mycenae

pt. Three. One of a Kind ; Lines in Praise of an American Novelist ; George Oppen: 1908-1984 ; An Afternoon in Athens ; Seekers Awake ; Conversations About a City

From All This Is Here (2003). Ritual of Return ; The One-Sided Conversation ; Light When It Moves ; Directed by a Clown, the Cats Perform ; Credo ; In Distaste ; Meditation on a Stuffed Owl

Time to Destroy / to Discover (1972)

Uncollected Works. The Conspirators ; See It, Believe It, and It Happens ; Goodbye Home. Hello Somewhere ; The Lecture ; Making the Claim ; Concentric Propositions ; The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder ; In the Land of Un. In the Land of Dis ; A Horse Called Burden, A Horse Called Venture ; Soundings ; The Shield: An Inheritance ; The Listener ; Reflections on a Drowned City ; A Little Kitchen Music ; The Arms / The Wings ; Here as It Happens ; Arrow Light. Target Eyes ; On the Recent Unpleasantness at Lake College ; Along These Ways ; Reactionary Poem ; Preparing to Leave

Words on Lawrence Fixel. Lawrence Fixel's "Flight Patterns" / Peter Johnson ; Measures & insistencies: Days with Lawrence Fixel / Christina Fisher ; Lawrence Fixel: Master of the prose poem / David Lazar ; On Lawrence Fixel's 'Truth, War, and the Dream-Game' / Donald L. Soucy ; to begin / Edward Mycue ; Parable, parabola, possible: On Lawrence Fixel / Sharon Coleman ; "Let's Start Where We Are" / Peter Money

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