Listen to the warm
by Rod McKuen
- New York Random House 1969
- 113 p.
Prologue: A cat named sloopy -- Listen to the warm: The days of the dancing -- On borrowing -- Row the boat ashore -- Here he comes again -- The time of noon -- Julie -- No -- Doug Davis, three -- Folk song for Judy -- The dance -- First and last visit to an annex in Burbank -- Fade in, phase out -- The grand opening-going-out-of-business sale -- Twenty-two songs: The world I used to know -- Me and the cat -- The lovers -- Song without words -- The far west (Le Plat Pays) -- Buffalo grass -- That time of loving -- Like a child -- Stanyan street -- Through European windows -- Times gone by -- The snow -- The beautiful strangers -- I'll say good-bye -- Thank you -- Dandelion days -- The ever-constant sea -- Three -- Methinks thou doth protest too much -- The love creature -- Do you know me, Maria? -- A kind of loving.
A Collection of autobiographical and lyrical poetry by this contemporary American chansonnier.