Arbor Encore: Collected Poems Volume 5

By Richard Gartee

Arbor Encore is a collection of 47 poems by Richard Gartee, which had their first publication in the renowned international poetry journal, Ann Arbor Review. Written and published over the course of five decades, during which the author became a regular Ann Arbor Review contributor.

Beginning with a scene of students tobogganin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lake and Emerald Publications, LLC
• Release date: Nov 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9781736395769

Richard Gartee

Richard Gartee is an award-winning novelist who has also authored seven college textbooks, seven novels, six collections of poetry, a novella, a theatre history, and a biography.A complete list of his available titles, upcoming events, and forthcoming books is available at www.gartee.com where you can also sign up to receive updates on his newest publications as they become available.

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Table of Contents

About Poetry in e-Book Readers

Foreward

Preface

Arboretum Daze

January Moon

Time Koan

Spring Into Summer

On a Shady Lane

Purty Yellow Daisies

Fifteen

Soda Fountain Days

Flying in Eights

The Lion Has Flown

Last Lovers In Burgundy Province

Found Naked Lunch

River

Mountain Breathing

The Deva

Bananas for Baba

Tea in Goa

Shakespeare’s Garden

First Revelation

Stay Seated

Four Lines for Ken

Stillpoint

Old Order

Brave Voice

Fame

Semi-Native

Lost and Found Shoes

Fingering The Jam

Summer Breeze

Laurel Canyon Houri

Last Dance of the Year

To Wish Again Upon A Star

He and She

Blinds and Shutters

Madwife

Enuf

The Mind

Grasses and Houses

Ever New Morning

Clouds

Unity

Cornfield Christmas

Sense and Probability (after Plato)

Un-Platonic Solids

Nothing Out of Something

Inspiration

The Poet

Author's Notes

Arbor

Encore

Collected Poems

Volume 5

Richard Gartee

LAKE & EMERALD PUBLICATIONS

Copyright © 2023 Richard W. Gartee

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, except for brief passages in a published review.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023922753

ISBN: 978-1-7363957-6-9 ebook

ISBN: 978-1-7363957-5-2 Paperback

Published by Lake and Emerald Publications, LLC

Gainesville, FL

www.lepublications.com

Cover Photo: Dieon Roger

Used with permission.

Poems in this volume were first published in Ann Arbor Review, Copyright 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022.

for Allen Ginsberg

(1926–1997)

About Poetry in e-Book Readers

Thank you for downloading this collection of poems to your e-reader. Most of the poems in this book have short lines that will read correctly in most devices. However, if you are reading this on a smart phone or if you have increased the font to a larger size some lines may wrap differently than the poet intended. The easiest way to correct this is to rotate your device to landscape mode. This will provide the maximum width for each line. Note, if your e-reader app displays two pages at a time in landscape mode, this can be changed to display a single page in landscape in the e-reader app settings.

Foreward

by Fred Wolven

Founder and Editor,

Ann Arbor Review International Journal of Poetry

Opening Richard’s poems…

Long ago, whether a poet makes a conscious effort or not, I concluded that nearly every poet quite naturally creates at least a partial autobiography in his/her poetry or at least contributes in their poems what may later become part of such. As one reads through this collection of Richard’s poems you’ll find him offering significant bits of information and thus insight