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Title: The Names of the Lost
Printing: Third Printing (January, 1981)
Year of publication: 1976
Publisher: Atheneum
City: New York
Number of Pages: 69
Cover: paperback
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-11868
ISBN: 0-689-10478-X
Comments: The Names of the Lost was originally published in a limited edition
by the Windhover Press of the University of Iowa.
Table of Contents:
- On the Birth of Good & Evil during the Long Winter of '28
- The Secret of their Voices
- Elegy for Teddy Holmes, Dead in a Far Land
- No One Remembers
- You
- New Season
- Autumn Again
- Wednesday
- Spring in the Old World
- On the Corner
- Belle Island, 1949
- The Falling Sky
- Let It Begin
- Another Life
- Gift for a Believer
- For the Poets of Chile
- The Survivor
- My Son and I
- A Late Answer
- Waiting
- On the Murder of Lieutenant José del Castillo by the Falangist Bravo Martinez, July 22, 1936
- For the Fallen
- Ask the Roses
- And the Trains Go On
- To My God in His Sickness
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You
The moon gone dark
in the smoke of the rolling mills,
the switch engines quiet
in their iron sheds.
On our last break we smoked
in silence, the night cool at last
in its last hour.
When your head dropped to your chest
I parted your fingers
and drew the cigarette out
and smoked it.
A thousand years away
our father lay down
in the hymning shade of the olives
and dreamed of that road,
twisting back,
and he wakened in the world.
A box car rasped.
I blinked the poor light
of another day, all around me
the houses had started.
In bare kitchens
men bowed
to coffee and cold porridge.
You were gone, brother,
the face I never saw in the darkness
gone, the cigarette gone,
and I haven't touched you since.
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