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The blue coat /
Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released, it illuminates the poetry in the everyday by focusing on a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Auckland University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | [International ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Contents; Blessing the house for departure; Signing the will; Gargoyles; My mother's fingernails; Driving with my mother; Dickens and my father; For Ruby; The distraction from harm; Birthmark; Ruby's heirloom dress; Fatherhood; Sa taille svelte de jeunefille; The birth dressing gown; Cole dresses his mother; Dressing in Nelson Street, King's Lynn; The bra fitting; Engageantes = detachable sleeves; The blue coat; Plaits; Meeting with two fans; The marking of The Great Gatsby; Reading Maxine Kumin; Lipstick stain on a poem.
- Tony Hoagland farewells the poets; Merci d'exister: a French lesson; Last week of a life; Credo; Dying; Last sister; All Saints' and the day of an operation; Intensive reading with Diana; Amy brings the thesaurus; Tonia looks at her hands; The wedding lawn; Virginia: gardening with transistor; Two adorable things about Mozart; Stained-glass window seen from the rear; How music is made; Practising scales; Calf weeding; Fountain; High wind in the garden; Grass; Tazetta daffodils in midwinter; Rose thirds; Old lemon tree; The underside of the miniature plane tree; The wedding tree.
- Babies in the galleryThe young women at the station; The nurses are coming; Restaurant, stars; The eye is badly designed; How to release a bee; St Frances of Rome, patroness of car drivers; Governess sky; When to visit a cemetery; The chipped Limoges plate; Blossoms, marshmallows; Leaf flurry tram; Black Labradors; Backcover.