David Ignatow - April 10, 1979

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
David Ignatow

David Ignatow reads widely from his work. This reading includes poems collected in Facing the Tree (1975) and Tread the Dark (1978), as well as uncollected poems and early drafts of poems that would go on to appear in collections such as Whisper to the Earth (1981) and Leaving the Door Open (1984).

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Welcome and Introduction
Description

by Lois Shelton

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"The Diner"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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"I sink back upon the ground..."
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"Kaddish"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"1905"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"Childhood I"
Description

Published version bears the title "Growing Up." Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"One Leaf"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"Two robins are building a nest in the fir tree..."
Description

Uncollected, unpublished.

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"The truth I'm searching for..."
Description

Uncollected, unpublished.

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"In Memoriam"
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Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"Our Dreams"
Description

Published version bears the title "I've Wanted." Differs from published version.

Citation

Ignatow, David. Leaving the Door Open. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1984.

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"On Censorship"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Whisper to the Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

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"Here I am, with mike in hand, shooting down the rapids"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Ignatow, David. Shadowing the Ground. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1991.

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"My Hot-Water Bottle"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Leaving the Door Open. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1984.

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"Were You?"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986.

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"I Will Walk"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1986. 

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"The Men You've Loved"
Description

Differs from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. Leaving the Door Open. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1984.

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"I Dream I Hurl a Spear"
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Ignatow, David. Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems. Pittsburgh: Mill Hunk Books, 1991.

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"The Story of Progress"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Ignatow, David. "The Story of Progress." The Best American Poetry 1999. Ed. Robert Bly. New York: Scribner, 1999. 85.

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"South Bronx"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"Brightness as a Poignant Light"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"I have found what I want to do--"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"This False Desire"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"I touch the flesh around the skeleton"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"I look the sun in the eye"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"So many people are dead"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"Midnight"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"To look for meaning is as foolish as to find it"
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Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"I sit here thinking I should write," "Where is the image that will free me" and "My writing teaches me"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Tread the Dark. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

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"A Moral Tale"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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"Once there was a woman..."
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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"Autumn"
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Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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"For John Berryman"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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"In a Dream"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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Track Title
"Invocation"
Citation

Ignatow, David. Facing the Tree. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975.

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David Ignatow
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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