As When : A Selection

As When spans the range of Tom Raworth's poetry to date, and includes work omitted from his Collected Poems (2003) as well as poems previously only issued as fugitive cards and broadsides. This edition of Tom Raworth's poems is beautifully arranged, with an introduction to his life and work long overdue. ;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; A Note on the Selection; You Were Wearing Blue; Wedding Day; Waiting; But I Don' Love; Morning; Three; The Blown Agent; Ah the Poetry of Miss Parrot's Feet Demonstrating the Tango; Hot Day at the Races; North Africa Breakdown; You've Ruined My Evening/You've Ruined My Life; Now the Pink Stripes; Collapsible; Love Poem; These Are Not Catastrophes I Went Out of My Way to Look For; Gitanes; Tom Tom; The Explosive Harpoon; The University of Essex; Going to the Zoo; How Can You Throw It All Away on This Ragtime?; Lion Lion. 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Lion Lion. LemuresSouth America Come Back, Come Back, O Glittering and White! On the Third Floor and a Half Claudette Colbert by Billy Wilder The Moon Upoon the Waters Purely Personal Notes of the Song/Ain't Gonna Stay in This Town Long Entry Blue Pig Lie Still Lie Still You Can't Get Out Stag Skull Mounted Greetings from Your Little Comrade Moonshine Taxonomy The Auction of Olson's Head Logbook Continued (Subtitles) Dreaming Friday Births of Images and Deaths In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was with God, and the Word Was God Art Is the Final Correction. Rather a Few Mistakes than Fucking BoredomDrop in Existence Just Out of the Picture How to Patronise a Poem Tracking (notes) Faces Change and Changes Face Us True Confessions (notes) Songs of the Depression Gaslight Love and Pieces Wandering Bounce Patch Patch Patch Future Models May Have Infra-red Sensors Mirror Mirror on the Wheel Belt Chicago University Days Uncertain Steps From Time to Time in the Past Mixed Everything 'Under' the Sun No Peace/Black Holes/Earth Cracks Laid Waste by the Luftwaffe The Ethical Artist Infinite Variety Stales New Year Cap. Into the Wild Blue YonderBoomerang Doctor Mends Not a Step Do I Stir until That Cat's Back to Its Colour A Blue Vacuum Cleaner The Beckoning Harpoon Out Takes Dormitory Life There Are Few People Who Put On Any Clothes (starring it) The Conscience of a Conservative Perpetual Motion Horse Power Variations on Horse Power Message Bottle Piety Skiey Never Mind Hearing The Dresden Codex Well Gracious Living "Tara" Eurode I Am Specious, Herr Kommandant A Silver Bullet Made from a Crucifix Everything I Have Is Yours Magnetic Water Lenin's Minutemen Pratheoryctice. Proust from the Bottom UpMordant Fleas Rome by Anonymous Sleep, Perch Indian Giver The West No Idea at All English Opium August 1st 1982 Electronic Atmospheres West Wind Descriptive Verse Creaking from Curtains Nothing The Vein All Fours Coal Grass Blood Night Emerald Dark Senses Out of a Sudden Death to a Star Unable to Create Carrier Cat Van Cat Landscaping the Future Suffering from Painful Trapped Mood Baggage Claim Never Entered Mind Caller Birthday Poem Seesound From Mountains and Gardens I Wasn't Before Title Forgotten Got On Stilled Motion Epitaph. Poet Tom Raworth has remained steadfastly independent of literary fashions, movements, and cliques throughout a poetic career spanning 50 years. As When is the first selection of Raworth's writing to address the full scope and range of his work, from the first poem he ever shared with anyone outside his family, "You Were Wearing Blue," to his most recently published poem, "Surfing the Permafrost Through Methane Flares." The collection includes prose work and notational pieces that were intentionally left out of his Collected Poems , along with poems that were only published in small magazines or as ephemeral cards and broadsides. Some pieces appear in correct, definitive versions for the first time.