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 \nDISCOVERY is the theme of these sensitive and  \nbeautifully wrought poems:discovery of an exotic milieuthat is dying,of the homeplace that remains,andof the ever present self.Mr.Cassity has taken  \nhis materials from life as he has seen it—in his nativeMississippi,in that vanishing world of tropicalcolonies that Kipling celebrated and Conrad broodedover,in the bustling Southeastern city that is nowhis home.In substance,his work is universal;in itsindividual viewpoint,as in the elegance of its polishedworkmanship,it is uniquely his own.  \nTURNER CASSITY,born in Jackson and educated atMillsaps,Stanford,and Columbia,is a veteranof the United States Army in Puerto Rico and hastraveled widely in the European and tropical  \nworld.At present he is chief of a department of theEmory University Library in Atlanta;he was  \nformerly associate librarian of the Jackson MunicipalLibrary and of the Transvaal Provincial Libraryin South Africa.His poems have appeared in variousiurnlc inludin   Va  \nPeriod Piece  \nLeather helmet,lifted goggles,  \nOut of the cockpit.Lindbergh struggles—Henceforth,accident or plan,Anything but Everyman:Icarus intact,all Paris  \nHis,and,his to be,an heiress;While the honest press chants still“Ambition,self-reliance,will.”  \nYet,goggles lowered,helmet fastened,Photographed,he so is chastened;Grown a skull,thus put upon,He must himself cry Jedermann;As though foreseeing loss,the Axis,Graduated income taxes;  \nSeeing corporate,bland thoughtsWhich are the minds of astronauts,And how one hears an honest press  \n99  \nhttps://archive.org/details/watchboywhatofni0000unse  \nWESTMAR COLLEGE LIBRARY  \nWATCHBOY,WHAT OF THE NIGHT?  \nWatchboy,  \n# What of the Night?\n\nBy TURNER CASSITY  \nWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nMiddletown,Connecticut  \n/.5  \n345  \nCopyright ◎1955,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966by Turner Cassity  \nSome of these poems first appeared in the following journals,to whose editorsgrateful acknowledgment is made:Emory University Quarterly,Kenyon Review,North American Review,and Poetry.Poems that first appeared in the last namedare these:\"Any Year at Bad Irgwendo,\"\"Astrology,\"“Aubade,\"\"Calvin inthe Casino,”“Chronology,\"“A Clock with a Mirror Face,\"\"The Coast atGrand Isle,\"\"A Colony of Another Kind”(originaly titled \"The Quarter\"),\"Complaint of the Cafe'Musicians,”\"Earrings for the Virgin,”\"East Side,West Side,\"\"Epigoni Go French Line,\"\"The Flying Dutchman,\"“The Gardensof Proserpine,\"\"Grace at the Atlanta Fox,\"\"Haitian Endymion,\"\"Hotel desIndes,\"\"In the Western Province,\"\"Johannesburg Requiem I-IV,”\"Junker-Lied,\"\"Love in Cincinnati,\"\"The Lumber Baron,\"\"Marchen,\"\"A Messagefrom Mother Goddam,”\"Nocturne,\"\"Out of the Pit,\"\"Pastoral with SkiLift,\"\"Period Piece,\"\"A Serenade for the Vicereine,\"\"A Song in Subtitles,\"and \"Woman.\"  \n\"Lines Written in Oregon,\"by Vladimir Nabokov,quoted herein,copyright ◎1959 by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published in The New Yorker;re-printed from Poems,by Vladimir Nabokov(Doubleday &Company,Inc.,1959)by permission of the author.  \n\"The Broken Men\"and \"Song of the Wise Children,\"by Rudyard Kipling,quoted herein,reprinted from The Five Nations,by Rudyard Kipling,by per-mission of Mrs.George Bambridge,The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd.Methuen &Co.Ltd.,and Doubleday &Company,Inc.  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:66-23920Manufactured in the United States of AmericaFirst Edition  \nD  \n65726  \nTo the Old Hands  \nWhat was the world like,before it fell:was there great sorrow?...No,there was a peculiar sadness in the air,a feeling ofhundreds of days leading up to this particular day,and everynow and then the breath of a change to come as when thegreat airs of summer move under August trees...  \n—OSBERT SITWELL  \n# Table of ContentsRUDIMENTS OF TROPICS\n\nHaitian Endymion9Aubade10Teatro Amazonas11A Message from Mother Goddam13La Petite Tonkinoise14Calvin in the Casino15The Flying Dutchman17In the Western Province18Märchen20Woman21Out of the Pit22","cbCaifwOkIlJhQTX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifwOkIlJhQTX","pdf",2915569,88,"English","# RUDIMENTS OF TROPICS\n## Haitian Endymion\n## Aubade\n## Teatro Amazonas\n## A Message from Mother Goddam\n## La Petite Tonkinoise\n## Calvin in the Casino\n## The Flying Dutchman\n## In the Western Province\n## Märchen\n## Woman\n## Out of the Pit\n## Johannesburg Requiem I Gold\n## By the Waters of Babylon\n## III Homage to Rider Haggard\n## IV Watchboy, What of the Night?\n## A Serenade for the Vicereine\n## Servant Problem\n## The Gardens of Proserpine\n## Poseidon in the Fountain\n## Le Bassin Vert\n## Hotel des Indes\n## A Somewhat Static Barcarolle\n## Junker-Lied\n## East Side, West Side\n## Any Year at Bad Irgendwo\n# OOM-PAH FOR OOM PAUL\n# EXTRALITY GO HOME","[{\"question\":\"What is the theme of the poems in WATCHBOY, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?\",\"answer\":\"The poems focus on discovery: a dying exotic milieu, a remaining homeplace, and the ever-present self.\"},{\"question\":\"Where did Turner Cassity draw his materials for these poems?\",\"answer\":\"From life he observed, including his native Mississippi, tropical colonial worlds he encountered, and the Southeastern city where he lived.\"},{\"question\":\"Which poem is indicated under the section containing “IV Watchboy, What of the Night?”\",\"answer\":\"“Watchboy, What of the Night?” is listed as the poem under the numbered entry IV in the table of contents.\"}]","Watchboy - What of the Night? 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