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Alvin Feinman (1929–2008) taught literature at Bennington College from 1969 to 1994. He was the author of Preambles and Other Poems and an expanded edition of that work, Poems (Princeton). He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Brooklyn College, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. Feinman's wife, Deborah Dorfman (1934–2015), taught literature at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and SUNY Albany. Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University. James Geary is deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World.

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"Alvin Feinman's poems are perhaps the purest evidence of the extinction of personality T. S. Eliot believed was one of poetry's necessities. As an aspiration, extinction of personality is as dangerously thrilling as being exposed to a siren's song. As an achievement, Feinman's exquisite, visionary poems, tied to the mast of their own making, allow us to behold fierce, unyielding perceptions."--Michael Collier, director of the University of Maryland Creative Writing Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

"Poetry is making, poesis. And for a time, Alvin Feinman was a maker, a majestic poet who came to embrace his own intolerable limitations, his own dead-end. After long silence, one rejoices in these almost forgotten, rigorous, earthly, purgative poems."--Henri Cole

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Corrupted into Song

The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contents

Foreword by Harold Bloom, ix, 
The Constant Crime of Speech: The Life and Work of Alvin Feinman, by James Geary, 1, 
Preambles, 
I, 
Preambles, 23, 
Old World Travelogue, 26, 
Landscape (Sicily), 27, 
II, 
Pilgrim Heights, 31, 
The Sun Goes Blind, 32, 
Scene Recalled, 33, 
Solstice, 34, 
Snow, 35, 
Waters, 36, 
Waters (2), 37, 
Earth and Sorrows, 38, 
III, 
Relic, 41, 
Three Elementary Prophecies, 42, 
1. For Departure, 42, 
2. For Passage, 43, 
3. For Return, 44, 
What Speaking Silent Enough?, 45, 
That Ground, 46, 
This Face of Love, 47, 
For the Child Unanswered in Her, 48, 
Relic (2), 49, 
Relic (3), 50, 
Responsibilities and Farewell, 51, 
The End of the Private Mind, 52, 
This Tree, 53, 
Death of the Poet, 54, 
IV, 
Statuary SIX POEMS, 57, 
1. Tags, or Stations, 57, 
2. All of This, 58, 
3. Portrait, 59, 
4. Sentinel, 60, 
5. L'Impasse des Deux Anges, 61, 
6. Covenant, 62, 
Noon, 63, 
True Night, 64, 
Annus Mirabilis, 65, 
Mythos, 66, 
Mythos (2), 67, 
Visitations, Habitats, 68, 
V, 
November Sunday Morning, 71, 
Stare at the Sea, 72, 
Swathes of March, 73, 
Stills: From a 30th Summer, 74, 
Late Light, 75, 
Day, Daylong, 76, 
Double Poem of Night and Snow, 77, 
Circumferences, 78, 
Listening, 
I, 
Summer, Afternoon, 83, 
At Sunset, 84, 
Cancellations, 85, 
1. Graffiti, 85, 
2. Hiatus: Between Waking and Waking, 86, 
Nightfall, 87, 
II, 
Listening FOUR POEMS, 91, 
1. Morning, Arraignment with Image, 91, 
2. The Listening Beasts, the Creatures, 92, 
3. Then Leda, 93, 
4. False Night, or Another, 94, 
Wet Pavement, 95, 
Second Marriage Song, 96, 
The Unpublished Poems, 
I, 
The Way to Remember Her, 101, 
For Lucina, 102, 
Letter to Jane, 103, 
For Enid and Jerry, 104, 
Soliloquy of the Lover out of Season, 105, 
The Reading, 106, 
Sunset with Male Figure, 108, 
[ untitled ], 109, 
[ untitled ], 110, 
[ untitled ], 111, 
A Farewell to the Grammarian of the Heart, 112, 
In Praise of Space and Time, 113, 
II, 
Intruder, 117, 
Lament for the Coming of Spring, 118, 
Backyard, Hoboken, Summer, 119, 
Evening in the Gentile Town, 120, 
The Islander, 121, 
Matinal, 122, 
III, 
Socratic Adieu, 125, 
Neither/Nor, 126, 
Song, 127, 
Song for Evening, 128, 
Postlude for the Metaphysician, 129, 
[ untitled ], 130, 
Epilogue: Zone and Invocation, 131, 
The Innocents, 132, 
[ untitled ], 133, 
[ untitled ], 134, 
Preamble for a Stone Age, 135, 
Stanzas for W. B. Yeats, 136, 
IV, 
Song of the Dusting Woman in the Library, 139, 
Natura Naturans, 140, 
An Heretic to Heretics, 141, 
A Motive for the Fallacy of Imitative Form, 142, 
Fragment for the Necessary Angel, 143, 
The True Spain, 144, 
Moon, 145, 
War Dance of the Apocalyptic Pagan, 146, 
Stone Anatomies, 147,