UA Poetry Center
Robert Mezey reads primarily from The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969 (1970). He opens the reading with a selection of poems from poets he admires, including Yehuda Amichai, César Vallejo, and W.S. Merwin.
"Sometimes I go about..." Translated/adapted from the Chippewa by Frances Densmore. The Sea and the Honeycomb. Edited by Robert Bly. Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1966.
by Archilochus
Poems from the Greek Anthology. Translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962.
by Issa.
Lawrence, D. H. "The White Horse." The Sea and the Honeycomb. Edited by Robert Bly. Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1966.
Williams, William Carlos. The William Carlos Williams Reader. New York: New Directions, 1966.
Hodgson, Ralph. Poems. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.
Merwin, W.S. The Lice. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Vallejo, César. Twenty Poems. Madison, Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962.
Amichai, Yehuda, translated by Assia Gutmann. From Poems from the Hebrew. Edited by Robert Mezey. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973.
Translated and adapted from Endre Ady.
Mezey, Robert. White Blossoms. West Branch, IA: Cummington Press, 1965.
Mezey, Robert. White Blossoms. West Branch, IA: Cummington Press, 1965.
Introduced as "Theresienstadt Poem"
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. "To Gary, at the Threshold of the House." Stand Magazine, vol.11, no. 3, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. Collected Poems, 1952-1999. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Uncollected.
Uncollected.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. "I Have Lived Under Orion All My Life." The Nation, vol. 212, no. 22,1971, p. 694.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. Collected Poems, 1952-1999. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Mezey, Robert. The Door Standing Open: New and Selected Poems, 1954-1969. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, first edition. 1855.
