Fictions from the Self

Poems explore a variety of themes including love, time, and loneliness.

Literature & Fiction

BURKARD, Michael

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

Poems organized in the form of a notebook trace the author's development and evoke his memories, dreams, and experiences

My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Poems explore a variety of themes including love, time, and loneliness

Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love. We follow the narrator on a journey as he explores the images, characters, and incidents from his past. Identities merge and even become contrary.

Ruby for Grief (Pitt Poetry Series)

History & Criticism

University of Pittsburgh Press

The work of Michael Burkard has a rich interior quality different from that of any other voice in American poetry. He captures a sense of the mind revising and revealing itself, altering its perceptions.

Review\nAbsolute Love Affair 
Anastasia 
As The Apparition Walked 
Bay Window 
Behind The Rain 
Beyond The Shadow Across The Bridge 
Biography 
The Birds Of The Flock 
Black And Green 
Black Wing 
The Clothing Of The Heart 
Deathbed 
Dim Man, Dim Child 
The Dogs On The Cliffs 
The Drawings 
Emigration 
Envelopes Of Night 
The Eternal Husband 
Evening Candle 
Every Night 
Extinct Form 
The Family 
A Feeling From The Sea 
The Ferry Boat 
The Fires They Kept 
First Love 
A Flower's Timepiece 
The Fool 
Foolish Thing 
Four Words From The Moon 
The Ghosts 
The Gogol Title 
Green Helmets 
Horse Light 
How Small 
I Forgot His Name 
I Have A Silence In The Rain 
If I See The Lost 
If In The Stellar Coast Of Evening I Could Only Know My Name 
In The Middle Of Night 
Lament Upon Hearing Of A Wedding 
Memoir 
Mornings Like A Vase 
A Mountain Of Glass 
My Aunt And The Sun 
My Mother The Sailor 
My Sister's Room 
The Mysteries Of Things 
Nearing 
Night Fog 
Out There 
Pentimento 
Personal Histories (more Darkness) 
A Place In The World 
A Rapid Distorted Reflection Of The Moon 
Reliquary 
Side With Stars 
Sleigh On Hire 
Star For A Glass 
Stillness Of The Light 
Story From The Past 
Street To The North 
The Summer Of The Thief 
Them 
Time When The Day Ended 
Two Chimneys 
Vronsky's Horse 
The Wind Isn't Loving Anyone 
The Woman In The Night 
Your Voice 
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

The Fires They Kept

Metro Book Company

The fires they kept : poems

Metro Book Co.

In a White Light Poems

L'Epervier Pr

Over the course of his distinguished career, Michael Burkard has drawn praise from poets as diverse as John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Jean Valentine, James Tate, Tomas Tranströmer, and Timothy Liu for a poetry that "returns us to a primary strangeness." This selection offers Burkard aficionados and those new to his work an opportunity to encounter what Ashbery has praised as Burkard's "urgent messages from a distant galaxy." According to poet-critic Ethan Paquin, Burkard's poems "break from reality and American lyrical status quo to offer timeless, elegant revelations." Envelope of Night features an insightful foreword by the author, generous selections from five early books (the out-of-print collections In a White Light, Ruby for Grief, The Fires They Kept, Fictions from the Self and None, River) and "A Thief in the Lamp," a compelling, book-length section of previously unpublished poems that provides crucial insight into the trajectory of the development of Burkard's work. This definitive volume is an essential record of the achievements of a major American writer and a dazzling litmus of the range of the poetic mind.

Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990

Nightboat Books

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Fictions from the Self

My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems

Fictions from the Self

My Secret Boat: A Notebook of Prose and Poems

Ruby for Grief (Pitt Poetry Series)

Ruby for Grief (Pitt Poetry Series)

The Fires They Kept

The fires they kept : poems

In a White Light Poems

Envelope of Night: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1966-1990