Ted Greenwald

The Age of Reasons


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      The Age of Reasons

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      The Age of Reasons

      UNCOLLECTED POEMS 1969–1982

      TED GREENWALD

      EDITED BY MILES CHAMPION

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      2016 © Ted Greenwald

      Editor’s Note © 2016 by Miles Champion

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed and Typeset in Parkinson Electra Pro

      by Eric M. Brooks

      This project is supported in part by an award fromthe National Endowment for the Arts.

      Library of Congress

      Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Greenwald, Ted.

      [Poems. Selections]

      The age of reasons: uncollected poems 1969–1982 /

      Ted Greenwald; edited by Miles Champion.

      pages; cm

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7626-2 (pbk.) —

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7627-9 (ebook)

      I. Champion, Miles, 1968– II. Title.

      PS3557.R3968A6 2016

      811'.54 — dc23 2015031902

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover illustration: George Schneeman, Untitled (1996), collage, 4 1/4 × 4 inches. Used by permission of Karie Schneeman and courtesy of Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.

      TO KIT

      CONTENTS

       Editor’s Note | ix

       “man / who write” | 1

       Show and Tell | 2

       “air like art” | 5

       Poem (“at this point in history”) | 6

       A Good Night’s | 7

       “do / they / worry” | 9

       Waiting Spoon | 10

       Air | 11

       I Love You | 12

       Somebody Wants You | 14

       The Coast | 16

       Poem (“theirs”) | 18

       You | 19

       In the Meantime | 20

       It’s Asking | 21

       Sunnyside Up | 22

       There’s a Meaning | 30

       Dance | 33

       Down the Drain | 34

       Salad Days | 36

       Curtain | 37

       After | 38

       Going My Way | 39

       How Many Years Is It Now | 40

       Kiss | 41

       “I open / my eyes” | 42

       Scalp Excitement | 43

       How Is It | 44

       The Sandwich Islands | 45

       “air / joins / us” | 57

       Mufti Explodes | 58

       Delicate Petals | 59

       Everything Seems | 60

       Over the Edge | 61

       How Watchful of Passersby | 62

       Eyelids Turn | 63

       Almost Amazement | 64

       A Technical Report | 65

       Open the Window to the Soul | 68

       Aeolian Harp | 70

       Form-Fitting Hips | 72

       “clouds hang in