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    Collected Poems 2011
    Collected Poems 2011
    Collected Poems 2011
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    Collected Poems 2011

    By Ted Kotcheff

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    Even if you don't enjoy reading poetry, you'll love this book. It's a delightful scrutiny of a man's youthful years that will touch your heart, stir your soul and give you food for thought.
    This collection of poems covers a wide range of subjects from youth, friendship, romance, the people that shape your life, to the beauty of nature, its mystery and sometimes when it is "red in tooth and claw".
    One of the most powerful poems deals with the poet's adolescent encounter with the Holocaust and its hellish images that stains his being deeply and sets him off into an obsessive cosmological quest for meaning and illumination, and he finally finds redemptive grace.
    So the poems are sometimes autobiographical and at times, philosophical, but always lyrical, always profound but always accessible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781456888237
    Collected Poems 2011
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    Ted Kotcheff

    Ted Kotcheff always had two overriding artistic passions in his life: to make films and to write poetry. For the greater part of his life, he has directed a panoply of feature films that cover a wide range of genres, from comedies such as Weekend at Bernie's and Fun with Dick and Jane, to intense dramas such as Wake in Fright, First Blood and North Dallas Forty. He has achieved significant artistic recognition, with two of his films, Wake in Fright and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz receiving the ultimate accolade of the film world, being declared Cannes Classics. He was inducted into the Canadian Film and TV Hall of Fame. Law & Order: Special the TV series that he produced for 12 years and frequently directed, won many awards. But always, he harbored an unrelenting passion to fulfill his lifelong dream to create poetry. So in 2011, he authored his first volume of verse, followed by two others. This is his fourth volume: the poems within are quintessentially different from all that has gone before, poems that achieve a philosophical profundity reflecting a passionate lifetime involvement with life, socially, culturally and politically. Ted Kotcheff has recently published his memoirs, entitled "Director's Cut", reflecting his colorful, dramatic, diverting and diverse, variegated life.

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      Collected Poems 2011 - Ted Kotcheff

      The

      Collected Poems

      2011

      Ted Kotcheff

      Copyright © 2011 by Ted Kotcheff.

      Cover design and title pages by Dylan Sheridan.

      Photo by Jeremy Jackson (Ted’s bio photo)

      Photo by Frank Dvoracek (photo on Youthful Memories title/chapter page)

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2011904192

      ISBN:                   Hardcover                             978-1-4568-8822-0

                                  Softcover                               978-1-4568-8821-3

                                  eBook                                     978-1-4568-8823-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 04/28/2017

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      Table of Contents

      I. Six Birds, Five Poems

      1. Swallow

      2. Frigate Bird

      3. Pelicans

      4. The Egret and the Sand Piper

      5. The Grackle

      II. Three Friends

      1. Death Lesson

      2. Last Looks

      3. Flight 1703

      4. Two Moments

      III. Youthful Memories

      1. Fire

      2. Rain

      3. The 100-Proof Alcohol Proof of God

      4. Eating Wild

      5. The Argosy of a Troubled Adolescent

      IV. Love and Marriage

      1. Beijing Night, December

      2. The Touch

      3. Tony

      V. The Fishing Trip and Other Poems

      1. The Fishing Trip

      2. Eclogue

      3. Chanson Triste

      4. Day’s End, Hanalei Bay, ’08

      VI. Bricks and Other Encounters With God

      1. Bricks

      2. Dichotomy

      3. An Encounter with God

      4. Visitation

      For Laifun:

      My amaranthine beauty,

      You are my Bach Chaconne,

      My Handelian aria,

      My Schubert, my Scarlatti,

      My Bonnard bouquet of mimosas,

      My Cezanne, My Turner,

      My Caravaggio.

      There are several people to whom I owe a large debt of thanks:

      Francis Chapman has been my best friend for 60 years. We met in Northrop Frye’s class, Methods and Techniques of Allegory in 1951. He has made extraordinary contributions to these poems: he edited, pruned and suggested alternate phrases and words. His literary taste and judgment are of the highest order. He generously expended a tremendous amount of time on this undertaking and was on-call day and night.

      Brianna Yellen, my assistant, typed, retyped every poem many times as each went through several transmogrifications. A budding author herself, she always made suggestions that were insightful. She ably produced this book. She was tireless.

      Thanks to Dylan Sheridan for his extraordinarily beautiful design work, for the cover and the plates within.

      Finally, my wife, Laifun. My dedication page says it all. It was she who urged and encouraged me to resume an ambition left behind more than 50 years ago. She was always there with her loving support, her keen intelligence and creative ideas. This volume

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