The afterlife of trees /
From "The Afterlife of Trees" /Neither sheep nor cows crisscross our lives as much./Trees dangle apples and nuts for the hungry, throw/shade down for lovers, mark sites for the lost,/and first and last are/utterly themselves,/fuller and finer than any letter or number,/any 7 or T. Their fr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2002.
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Colección: | Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS
- A BOX FOR SMALL BIRTHS
- Listening on the Back Steps
- How Acupuncture Is Like Poetry
- Lost Footnote from an Essay on Rhythm
- Shuffles
- Two for the Winds
- Under the Old Roof
- The Colours at McCormack's Beach
- Sloth Surprises
- The Afterlife of Trees
- A Toss of Cones
- A Lake Named After My Ancestors
- The Basement that Became a Garden
- Gardening Until Dark
- 1 four cats among the flowers
- 2 curses on garden thieves
- 3 whippersnipper rant
- 4 rat by a peony bush
- 5 Charlie's voice
- Graveyard Haiku
- Tree TrilogyHAWTHORNDEN IMPROVISATIONS
- Hawthornden Improvisations
- A WORLD OF COUNTING
- Work at Twenty-One
- Three Windows
- After the Age of Parties
- Every Lion Until Now
- A Glosa for Joshua
- Sick for the New Millennium
- Diner in a Storm
- Three Tales of Halifax
- Atlas, We Laughed
- Foot-doctor for the Homeless
- The Sonographer
- TALKING TO THE BIRDS
- Talking to the Birds
- 1 to a red-eyed vireo
- 2 to a northern gannet
- 3 to an albino red-tailed hawk
- 4 to a great blue heron
- 5 to a goldfinch
- 6 to an osprey7 to a brown-tailed shrike
- 8 to a sooty shearwater
- Acknowledgments