from Rhythms II (1919)

Poems:

I have not even...
Vaudeville
I knocked...
I look across the housetops...
The winter afternoon...
Stubborn flies buzzing...
Scrubwoman
The horses keep tossing...

 

Bibliographic Note:

Rhythms II was published by the author in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919.� It contained twenty-five unnumbered poems.� For Poems (1920) Reznikoff rearranged the sequence, combined two poems into one, and revised ten others.� For Five Groups of Verse (1927), he again rearranged the order, revised two poems, and dropped two.� As a final revision, in the 1962 selection one poem had its title deleted.� The present text follows the 1927 version.

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Material from
POEMS 1918-1975: THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CHARLES REZNIKOFF Copyright � 1977
by Marie Syrkin Reznikoff and reprinted with the permission of Black Sparrow Press.