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Love's answer : poems /

The blues of the sky provide the mood, and more than a handful of birds--magpies, curlews, hummingbirds, jackdaws--are sent into the open spaces that Heffernan, a tranquil, philosophical poet who sees the universe with the help of ""the inmost eye in the middle of me, "" stirs up...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heffernan, Michael, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1994.
Colección:Iowa poetry prize.
Edwin Ford Piper poetry award.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The abyss : the facts on the ground
  • A temptation in the wilderness
  • The atonement
  • The blessings of liberty
  • The light of the living
  • Another part of the forest
  • The monks at large
  • The queen of heaven
  • This life
  • Souls in purgatory
  • Afternoon of the hun
  • On the beach at Saugatuck
  • The last man
  • The council
  • A passerby and his companions visit the widow after the mad avenger's dreadful accident
  • A creak of hinges
  • Free country
  • The banquet
  • The music of forgiveness
  • Rendering Aquinas
  • A rhetoric upon the window
  • Summer in Umbria : remembering Skye
  • The ape of Emain Macha
  • A highway brook in Dingle
  • The moving statue at Melleray
  • Poulnabrone Dolmen
  • Lake Isle
  • A catch in the breath
  • A girl sings to Moravia at the world's end
  • Magpies
  • The land of heart's desire
  • The world of light
  • The magnum opus
  • The boulevardier
  • Why we forget things we thought we wouldn't
  • Dream vacation
  • B-minor mass
  • Merciless beauty
  • The peasants' rising
  • A state of grace
  • The island
  • The rooming house : a sign from heaven
  • The consolation
  • A light in the house
  • A phantom of delight
  • The nightgown
  • The flesh
  • Stickbug
  • Great beast
  • White dwarf
  • Lawn mower
  • Angelology
  • Watering impatiens
  • Truth
  • Requiem
  • Lost boy
  • Cafe paradiso
  • Badia fiesolana
  • The disenthralled.