Views from a ferris wheel : poems / Robert Wallace.

Author/creator Wallace, Robert, 1932-
Other author Wallace, Robert, 1932- inscriber.
Other author Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Dutton, ©1965.
Description121 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
Poetry.

Contents The storm -- The noise that woke me strangely -- A problem in history -- A sight of the Negro funeral -- The two old gentlemen -- Total -- It was the sun -- A snapshot for Miss Bricka -- The double play -- Noon photographs -- Fifteen dolphins -- Landscape and windows -- Adagio -- The new world -- Poem -- A love poem-probably -- The older man's song -- Data to be left in the ruins -- Closing down -- The dark burning -- A charm on her behalf -- Out of the window in December -- Nuns by the sea -- Dust -- The star-nosed mole -- The mammoth -- One for the season -- First dandelions -- Spring -- To a Monarch butterfly blown seventeen miles to sea -- To a bird watcher, but gratefully -- Mosquitoes -- In the shadows of early sunlight -- from The dictionary zoo (The walrus ; The brontosaurus ; The gargoyle ; The dromedary ; The ounce) -- The crayfish -- The garden snail -- The white crayfish.
Contents (Cont.) Manifesto for a little brass key -- Single, the poet is surprised by her fever -- The poet, forsaken in love, is visited at a green lake -- Love song at the Olivetti on Fifth Avenue -- Hail and farewell -- In a spring still not written of -- The kite -- Saturday movie -- Steadfastness -- Terror and delight -- What he says -- Directions for getting lost -- Omen -- Above the river country -- O bright two -- A last photograph, for being divorced -- Girl in front of the bank -- Instructions for keeping a muse -- Encounter -- Return -- Among the Finger Lakes -- The two roads -- Under the September peach -- Municipal parking lot -- Ghosts -- One January -- The house -- From my window at the college.
Local noteAutographed by Robert Wallace and inscribed "for Stuart Wright - with regards, Bob Wallace" on title page. Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #109.7. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Issued in other formOnline version: Wallace, Robert, 1932- Views from a ferris wheel. New York : Dutton, ©1965
LCCN 65019960