John GodfreyThe City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014
John Godfrey was born in Massena, N.Y. in 1945. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1967, and took a B.S. in Nursing from Columbia University in 1994. He has received fellowships from the General Electric Foundation (1984), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2009), and the Z Foundation (2013). He retired in 2011 after 17 years as a nurse clinician in HIV/AIDS. He has lived in the East Village of Manhattan since the 1960s.
from 26 Poems (Adventures in Poetry, 1971) Touch Sonnet Poem Sonnet Rain Waste First Taste Month The Works Little Sister Our Knees Poem from 3 Poems (Bouwerie Editions, 1973) Love Knife Radiant Dog Gray Blazing Pit from Music of the Curbs (Adventures in Poetry, 1976) Equinox Atlas The Music of the Curbs Morning Star Come April Idiots Love Peon La Gloire Saint Augustine Peaches from Dabble (Full Court Press, 1982) Schnapps Sonata Dabble Mirrors at Night Poem By Antique Vogues Unholy Spring Double Sonnet Venus Passive Aspic Our Lady For You Wings Eight-Aught De Sica? Astral Roulette from Where the Weather Suits My Clothes (Z Press, 1984) Yankee Green Alto Corpus Oration The Eastern Desert My Mother, Life Bridge of Sand Reveille Look, You Lachrymal Humidities So Let
s Look at It Another Way Where the Weather Suits My Clothes from Midnight on Your Left (The Figures, 1988) Patria In Front of a Large Number of People Fur I Don
t Believe in Miracles Late Show Midnight On Your Left Family Jewels Savory Arrivals Peon #117 Johnny Nash, Meet Johnny
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Bloody Dewlaps Jaywalk Endlessly Pact In the Chamber The City Keeps from Push the Mule (The Figures, 2001) The Ticket The Dream You Threw At the Level of Heart Waited For Manger Lined with Fur Kinds of Smoke In Her Own Hand Grasp Is Provide The James Brother Pouring Gulf To Keep Saliva Warm Unless You Tarry from Private Lemonade (Adventures in Poetry, 2003) Everything Beautiful Shadow Feet Disbelief Private Lemonade That Place Anymore Rockin
Bleach Anywhere Downy Skin The Beautiful One Front Seat Knowhow Pool Cake It Can
t Say Protection Dim, Dud Dream Marble Flakes Food of Others Parade Slope Whole Heavy Building Overlooked Nomads Wavy from City of Corners (Wave Books, 2008) Waiting There Comes with Galore All the Hair Starling Convenience Beat It Silhouette Straining to Hear Floss at the Barbecue Loops Nearly Perfect Newcomers The One Who Turns Any Country on Earth Realm Remedy Get Help The Signs One Percent from Singles and Fives (Fewer & Further Press, 2011) Your Island Where Else Token Faux Getting Tough Can You Tell Tell the Angels At Second Glance from Tiny Gold Dress (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2012) Tiny Gold Dress Black Lapel Dispelling Face Despite Murder To You For By The Urge On Turbulence Lip Read So Real Rain, Boy Many Duets Correct the Air Betrays Nothing Whös Left from Gold Stars Wet Hearts (Faux Press, 2014) In Form of Seashell Doubles Headlight Tag The Title Gold Stars Wet Hearts Got a Million Assemble the Colors A Hundred Feet from Knee-length Black (Free Poetry: Boise State University, 2015) After Quiddity Red Tide Which Next Minute Box Set Knee-length Black Umbrella and Eyes Uncollected Poems Trip Wire One Hand Evidence Fa-fa-fa Load of Ice Missing Planet
