Hoping for a Hoopoe: Poems [British title of the work originally published as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures]

viii, 81 pp. Author's first book, originally published in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. This edition includes an author's note not included in the American edition. Includes: Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums; Ex-Basketball Player; Player Piano; Shipbored; An Ode; The Clan; Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles are Cracked and Crooked; The Population of Argentina; Even Egrets Err; Scenic; Tune, in American Type; Lament, for Cocoa; Recitative for Punished Products; V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick; Song of the Open Fireplace; March: A Birthday Poem; Sunflower; Poetess; Pooem; Capacity; An Imaginable Conference; The Story of My Life; The Newlyweds; Humanitites Course; English Train Compartment; Time's Fool; Philological; To an Usherette; Sunglasses; Cloud Shadows; A Modest Mound of Bones; Youth's Progress; Dilemma in the Delta; A Wooden Darning Egg; Mr. High-mind; The One-Year-Old; Superman; Publius Vergilius Maro, the Madison Avenue Hick; In Memoriam; Planting a Mailbox; Tsokadze O Altitudo; Little Poems; Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers; Due Respect; Tax-Free Encounter; Room; The Sensualist; Snapshots; Mountain Impasse; A Bitter Life; Glasses; A Rack of Paperbacks; Popular Revivals, 1956; Ode III.ii : Horace; A Cheerful Alphabet of Pleasant Objects.