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Smoke Encrypted Whispers.
These poems pulse with the language and images of a mangrove-lined river city, the beckoning highway, the just-glimpsed muse, the tug of childhood and restless ancestors. For the first time Samuel Wagan Watson's poetry has been collected into this stunning volume, which includes a final section...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Queensland Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | David Unaipon Award Winners Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; About the Author; contents; of muse, meandering and midnight; a prelude; magnesium girl; after 2 a.m.; back seat driver; on the river; waiting for the good man; raindrops fall in vain; chloe in the window box; the postman's privilege; musing: the graveyard shift; new farm is closed; white stucco dreaming; the crooked men; brown water looting; jetty nights; carefree; deadman's mouth harp; a verse for the cheated; the fatal garden; radio thick blood; midnight's boxer; surgery music; a bent neck black and flustered feather mallee; the gloom swans; a black bird of my mind.
- Fly-fishing in woolloongabbashout-me-a-wine requiem; crust; the writer's suitcase; midnight's plague; labelled; for the wake and skeleton dance; the dingo lounge; valley man; cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale; the mosquito room; mudflat; it starts; 1986; boondall wetlands; poem 9; once was a rifle range; the kabul manifest; hotel bone; the job; hotel bone; when dogs gamble; the late shift erupts; bone yard, south brisbane; itinerant blues; cold storage; the dusk sessions; kangaroo crossing; what more; we're not truckin' around; nil by mouth; the golden skin of cowgirls.
- Floodlight sonatasabandoned factories; scenes from a getaway car; night racing; 3a.m. escape; pre-flight; 95 cents a litre; deo optimo maximo; gasoline; literary festival bump-out; itinerant blue; products of mexico; gas tank sonnets; sunday; the last bullfighter; back road; sultry gridlock musings; brunswick st blues; ambulance chaser; talking to the airplanes; three-legged dogs; fire; the night house; jaded olympic moments; without regret; future primitive; the night train from newcastle; sortie; the finder's fee; skeletons in the trunk; the thousand-yard stare; king; last exit to brisbane.
- Hollow squallsmoke encrypted whispers; smoke signals; tigerland; scared of the dark; wecker road; cribb island; capalaba; rip; smoke water; author's notes #1; darkroom; fisherman islands; paper trails to midnight; author's notes #2; ghosts of boundary street; dog tired tune; when I crossed the ditch; author's notes #3; the dust company; from boundary street, west end ... ; snapshots; aunty grey smoke; author's notes
- conclusion; revolver; Copyright.