[PW] Re: Hayden Carruth poem

[Elizabeth Bezera]

Thanks to  Daphne D & Jeanne S & Dennis L --
The poem turned out to be where Jeanne suspected -- the fifth of "Five 
short-shorts" from The voice that is great within us: American poetry of the 
twentieth century, ed. by Carruth, Bantam Bks, (1970), pp 482-3.
My professor is delighted!

Liz Bezera

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From: "Elizabeth Bezera" <ebezera at verizon.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:05 PM
Subject: [PW] Hayden Carruth poem


>
> I'm looking for the Hayden Carruth poem that runs (or includes):
>
>                           So be it.  I am
>
>                           a wholeness I'll never know.
>
>                           Maybe that's the best.
>
>
> He wrote a lot of haiku, so this could be the whole thing -- or it could 
> be part of something bigger.  We need the title of the poem and the 
> publication info, or at least to know what collection it's in.  (A faculty 
> member wants to cite it in the book he's writing and can't remember where 
> he found it originally).
>
> We've Googled, and searched in JSTOR & Project Muse & EBSCO's Literary 
> Research Center.  We've also read through Collected Longer Poems, 
> Collected Shorter Poems, Asphalt Georgics, and Doctor Jazz, and used 
> Amazon's Search Inside the Book for those books, plus for Scrambled Eggs 
> and Whiskey.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Liz Bezera
> Emerson College Library
> elizabeth_bezera at emerson.edu
> ebezera at verizon.net