(P/B) SELECTED POEMS

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First published by City Lights in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published in the U.S., and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon. Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico, many of which are closely related to his landmark novel. (From the publisher)

"These poems would be worth keeping in print, if for no other reason, for their illuminations of Under the Volcano: 'See mind's petal / torn from a good tree, but where shall it settle / But in the last darkness and at the end?' Sometimes, as the images of "For Under the Volcano," they become 'palm-of-the-hand' versions of that masterpiece. Lowry is a poet of struggle - with life, and with the creative process. Here are his struggle's fruits: guilt, alcoholism, hopeless, self-deriding quest for salvation, which seems to be love, and, above all, self-destruction - but always accomplished with self-knowledge, enriched (in order to further torment itself) with compassion for all the beings that the poet, and us with him, are failing. His words are always sad and often beautiful." - William T. Vollmann

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Publisher's Note (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Introduction (Earle Birney)
THE ROAR OF THE SEA AND THE DARKNESS
No Kraken shall be found till sought by name
Look out! The bloody bosun!
Byzantium
Old freighter in an old port
Iron cities
The flowering past
The ship is turning homeward
The lighthouse invites the storm
Tashtego believed Red
Vigil Forget
The days like smitten cymbals of brass
THUNDER BEYOND POPOCATEPETL
Thunder beyond Popocatepetl
For Under the Volcano
Xochitepec
The Volcano is Dark
Grim vinegarroon
In the Oaxaca Jail
For the love of dying
Death of a Oaxaquenan
In a Mexican church
Delirium in Vera Cruz
Sunrise
THE CANTINAS
Prayer for drunks
Thirty-five mescals in Cuautla
Eye-opener
No company but fear
No time to stop and think
Comfort
Without the nighted wyvern
The drunkards
At the bar
Sestina in a Cantina
VENUS
Venus
Fragment
A New Ship
A poem of God's mercy
A quarrel
No still path
Nocturne
Saint Malcolm among the birds
Happiness
Be patient for the wolf
THE COMEDIAN
The Comedian
Men with coats thrashing
Thoughts while drowning
Queer poem
Poem
Midtown pyromaniac
Injured stones
Epitaph
SONGS FROM THE BEACH: ERIDANUS
Kingfishers in British Columbia
Christ walks in this infernal district too
Whirlpool
Hostage
The glaucous-winged gull
The ship sails on: for Nordahl Grieg
The wounded bat
The past
The pilgrim
The wild cherry
THE LANGUAGE OF MAN'S WOE
Rilke and Yeats
Thoughts to be erased from my destiny
Joseph Conrad
Trinity
The doomed in their sinking
Eels
The plagiarist
He liked the dead
After publication of Under the Volcano
The search
Strange type